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Burma: A Benchmark for ASEAN Success
An article in the ASEAN Human Rights Defenders Newsletter from Forum-Asia that argues ASEAN’s success will be measured according to how it deals with Burma’s military regime and its violations of the ASEAN Charter. Download the article.
• • •Introduction to ASEAN
A Powerpoint presentation that gives an introduction to ASEAN’s history and purpose. Download the Powerpoint
• • •Asian Voices: Myanmar’s Threat to Regional Security
A compilation of new and previously published articles by the members of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) that looks at issues of Burma’s effects on the region. Download the booklet
• • •Burma’s Serious Breaches of the ASEAN Charter
A paper outlining the military regime’s violations of the ASEAN Charter and why ASEAN must take serious efforts to address these breaches of the region’s principles. Download the paper.
• • •Will ASEAN Fail to Confront the SPDC Again?
A briefer that covers the SPDC actions between March and September 2009 and recommends that ASEAN pressure the SPDC to adopt the recommendations contained in the Burmese pro-democracy movement’s “Proposal for National Reconciliation”; address and resolve the Rohingya problem; release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners; and stop human rights abuses and […]
• • •AICHR Terms of Reference
The Terms of Reference of the new ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) outlines the purposes, principles, mandate, function, composition, and reporting of this new regional body. It was adopted by ASEAN in July 2009.
• • •ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint
This Blueprint represents the human dimension of ASEAN cooperation and upholds ASEAN commitment to address the region’s aspiration to lift the quality of life of its peoples, by implementing concrete and productive actions that are people-centered and socially responsible. Download
• • •ASEAN Political Security Community Blueprint
This Blueprint envisages ASEAN to be a rules-based Community of shared values and norms; a cohesive, peaceful, stable and resilient region with shared responsibility for comprehensive security; as well as a dynamic and outward-looking region in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world. The Blueprint provides a roadmap and timetable to establish the APSC by 2015. […]
• • •ASEAN Charter
The constitution of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), that came into force December 2008. Download the Charter in English or Burmese.
• • •ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint
This Blueprint is the coherent master plan guiding the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015, which will transform ASEAN into a region with free movement of goods, services, investment, skilled labour, and freer flow of capital. Download
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