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4 February 2021
Author: Mathew Davies, ANU
With the Myanmar military (the Tatmadaw) once again on the streets, and NLD leaders once again under arrest, the country’s decade-long experiment with democracy appears to be over. Myanmar and its Southeast Asian neighbours are no strangers to coups, but these events reveal not only the weakness of ASEAN’s commitments to human rights and democracy, but their fundamental failure. This failure is neither accidental nor unforeseen it has been hard-wired into the regional body.
Military coups, whether in Myanmar or elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not delegitimated by ASEAN. Of course, ASEAN has a charter that calls for the strengthening of democracy, good governance and rule of law. It even has the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration that includes, in Article 25, rights to participate in governments through democratically elected representatives and to participate in ‘periodic and genuine’ elections.
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Southeast Asia: AICHR will continue the discussion on mitigating the effects of COVID-19, particularly business-related human rights issues Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights to commence , 1 February 2021
The 32nd meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will . be virtually convened under Bruneiâs chairmanship with the participation of AICHR representatives and the ASEAN Secretariat.
The AICHR, established in 2009 to promote the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, specifies its priorities based on its five-year work plan and in response to emerging human rights issues in the region.
Expect the AICHR to continue the prior yearâs discussion on mitigating the effects of COVID-19, particularly business-related human rights issues. The pandemic has caused a global demand downturn, creating an excuse for many governments and businesses to lower human rights standards. Examples are seen in the Cambodia
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Thursday was International Human Rights Day, commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations following World War II.
Part of the declaration is a commitment to address the issue of human trafficking and Florida is preparing do just that, ahead of hosting one of the largest magnets for human trafficking for the second year in a row.
Last year during Super Bowl LIV in Miami, 20 trafficking victims were rescued and 42 arrests of johns and accomplices were made.
Human Rights Attorney Mark Schlakman said there are a number of reasons why the event is often a magnet for traffickers.