Abstract
Since its inception, ASEAN has constantly faced criticism from western
countries and international human rights organizations. This paper
particularly focuses on ASEAN human rights and non-interference policy.
ASEAN has established two new commissions: Intergovernmental Human
Rights Commission and Protection of Women and Children. This study
focuses on the current state of human rights in ASEAN and addresses the
following key questions: how ASEAN deals with human rights problems?
Why ASEAN response to human rights has been considered as insufficient
to handle/tackle human rights problems effectively? Hence, a qualitative
approach was applied to this study using secondary sources of data. This
study is based on thorough literature review and critical analysis of ASEAN
human rights situation, by reviewing the relevant studies on human rights
challenges in ASEAN, and its strategies in tackling this challenge. This
study concludes that although the problem of human rights is recognized as
per national, regional and international laws, but the challenge to implement
them in letter and spirit require more concrete step at regional level on behalf
of ASEAN, however, Non-intervention policy is a serious challenge to
collective decision making on ASEAN human rights. Therefore, ASEAN
needs to setup a mechanism where the member states can find common
ground to handle human rights challenge.
Ali Khan Ghumro, Dr Parvaiz Ali Mahesar, Dr Abdul Rehman Nizamani. (2019) COPING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM ASEAN, Asia Pacific, Vol-37, Issue 1.
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