ASEAN is for human rights? possible?

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ASEAN is for human rights? possible?

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Gains for Human Rights Reported in 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting

The issue of human rights took center-stage at the 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Manila, Philippines when ASEAN Foreign Ministers made the historic decision to include a provision for the creation of a regional human rights body in the ASEAN Charter. The Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism (Working Group), which has been advocating the establishment of such a mechanism since 1993, hailed the decision as a pivotal and critical development.

The Working Group was also kept busy during the days leading up to the AMM with a series of meetings, the most significant of which was the meeting with the ASEAN Senior Officials Troika on July 29, 2007, to review its efforts to help in the implementation of four program areas on human rights in the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP), as well as developments in the initiative to set up an ASEAN human rights mechanism.

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