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View all search resultsRights activists and lawmakers in Southeast Asia are calling on the governments of ASEAN to resist demands by the Cambodian government to detain and deport exiled dissidents looking to return to their homeland.
November 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), the ASEAN human rights body. At the beginning of 2019, this body welcomed a new batch of AICHR representatives. They sound like a great set of representatives to carry the torch of human rights activism in ASEAN. But we have barely heard them speak up about human rights this year.
Four ASEAN representatives sitting on the group's human rights body are calling on all member states to implement a transboundary haze treaty, pushing Indonesia further into a corner over the clouds of smog that have coated the region because of land and forest fires in the archipelago.
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