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Building a rights protection framework bangkokpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bangkokpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
IN a quest for an egalitarian future, empowering women remains crucial. Empowering women is not limited to justice or granting them rights, as mentioned in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) acceded by Malaysia in 1995.
In fact, it is a strategi
In 2009, Asean established a long-awaited regional human rights body in the form of the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). This commission has now undertaken a self-assessment of its work in recent years, and it covers some of the innovative measures identified below. Complementary to AICHR, there also came into being the Asean Commission on the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) and other sectoral bodies.