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Cross(Rayong, ailand, 2007)

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InsideMessage from the Secretariat .............................3

Main themeMaking human rights body accountable through regionalsolidarity .............................4

Can AICHR promote and protect human rights? ..6

Political Declaration must set clear guidelines

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ASEAN urged to set up human rights court

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ASEAN framework instrument for migrant workers mustbe legally binding ................. .........15

ASEAN must promote Indigenous peoples rightsaccording to UNDRIP ................. .........17

Burma: A benchmark for ASEANs success or failure

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Regional highlightWindows of opportunities to advance ESCR in Asia

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Political economy of climate change ................. .........24

Holding business corporations and transnationalcompanies accountable to ESCR violations ....... ....27

FTA is not just about trade, but human rights

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Say no to International Financial Institutions..........................33

Country Highlight Justice for Munir, justice for all! ................. .........35

Peoples courage against martial law ................. .........37

Controversial video: Independent, internationalinvestigation urgently needed ................. .........38

Solidarity key to resolve human rights abuses in Yongsan

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Advocacy

Asian NGOs engage with NHRIs at various levels..........................43

Window dressing weakens ASEAN ................. .........46

Special Procedures need more respect from MemberStates ..........................47

Support competitive elections! ................. .........48

Get involved and support the OP! ................. .........50

Special featureBreak the silence over LGBT issues with regional solidarity

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Making human rights body

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Protection or promotion?

Can AICHR promote and

protect human rights?

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Windows of opportunity

obtain informationfrom ASEAN Member States on thepromotion and protection of humanrightsprepare studies onthematic issues of human rightsin ASEAN

bringrelevant issues to the attention of theAICHR in accordance with Article11.2 (a) and (b) of the ASEANCharter.

Challenges for the Commission

Non-interference principles:e


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ASEAN framework instrument

for migrant workers must belegally binding

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UNDRIP is the United NationsDeclaration on Indigenous Peopleslaunched in Geneva in 2007. isstatement by Indigenous groups forIndigenous Peoples has been circulatedfor endorsement since February 2009.

ASEAN must promote

Indigenous peoples rightsaccording to UNDRIP

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Civil society meets working group on the establishment of the

commission for women and children

http://www.aseansec.org/Bulletin-Aug-09.htm#Article-3

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Burma: A benchmark for

ASEANs success or failure

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Burmas 2010 Elections: Roadmap

to Democracy or Roadmap to

Civil War?

Renewed scorched earth

campaigns in Eastern Burma

Burmas threat to regional peace


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and security

National reconciliation in Burma: a

benchmark for ASEAN

e Task Force on ASEAN & Burmais a network of civil society actors fromBurma working to promote a people-

centered ASEAN that is supportive tothe cause of democracy, human rights,and peace in Burma.

Tond out more about TFABcontact [email protected]

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Windows of opportunities to

advance ESCR in Asia

On 13-14 July 2009, FORUM-ASIA organised the Asian RegionalConsultation on Economic, Social andCultural Rights (ESCR) in Bangkok,ailand. For the purpose of thispublication,ve papers presented atthe Consultation are featured in thefollowing pages. e papers focusedmainly on an overview of ESCRin Asia, and on holding businesscorporation, transnational companies,inter-governmental bodies and

internationalnancial institutionsaccountable to protection of ESCRin business, trade andnance, in thecurrent global economic climate.

Judicial enforceability of ESCR

controversial


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Political economy of climate

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Carbon footprints of countries

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Holding business corporations

and transnational companiesaccountable to ESCR violations

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Mainstreaming business and human

rights

Approaches to business

accountability


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Intra-company level to tackle

corporate violations

National contact point, a useful

mechanism

No-hyun Kwak is a representativeof Korean House for InternationalSolidarity for Human Rights andPeace (KHIS).


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FTA is not just about trade,

but human rights

What does an FTA do?

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Laws to change for the big-boys

Workers rights will be trampled

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FTAs not just about trade

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Charles Santiago is a Member ofParliament for Klang (Malaysia),vice-Chairperson of the SelangorDemocratic Action Party, Directorof Monitoring Sustainability ofGlobalisation, and Coordinator forCoalition Against Water Privatisationand Group of Concern Citizens.


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Say no to

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Capitalism vs ESC rights

Migrant workers affected

Chanida Bamford is a representativefrom the Focus on the Global South,based in Bangkok, ailand.


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e statement was issued byMugiyanto and Mary Aileen DBacalso, chairperson and secretarygeneral of the Asian FederationAgainst Involuntary Disappearance,

on Munir 5th death anniversary.

Justice for Munir,

justice for all!

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is article was written by thePhilippines Alliance of HumanRights Associations, FORUM-ASIAsmember, on 21 September 2009.


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Peoples courage against

martial law

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Controversial video:

Independent, internationalinvestigation urgently needed

Is the video fake?

e below press released wasissued on 17 September 2009 inGeneva, Switzerland Professor PhilipAlston, the Special Rapporteur onextrajudicial executions.

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Solidarity key to resolve

human rights abuses inYongsan

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Solidarity is the key solution

Gayoon Baek is a FORUM-ASIA EastAsia Programme Ocer. is article isbased on her visit and interviews withvictims of forced eviction in Yongsan,South Korea.

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Asian NGOs engagement with

NHRIs

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Impact of ANNIs work

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Emerlynne Gil is FORUM-ASIAHuman Rights Defenders ProgrammeManager.Further contents of this articlewill be published in a forthcomingpublication of FORUM-ASIA.


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Window dressing weakens

ASEAN

is oral statement was delivered byGiyoun Kim on behalf of FORUM-ASIA at the 11th Session of the UNHuman Rights Council, on 16 June2009.

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is Open Letter was submitted tomember States of the Human RightsCouncil on 11 June, 2009.

Note: e organizations whichsigned on this Open Letter includes:Action Canada for Population

Special Procedures

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and Development(ACPD), Al-Haq, AmnestyInternational, Arab SistersHuman Rights Forum, Arabic

Network for Human RightsInformation (ANHRI), ARCInternational, ARTICLE19, Asian Forum for HumanRights and Development(FORUM-ASIA), Asian LegalResource Centre, Associationpour la Dfense des Droits etLiberts (ADDL), Associationof World Citizens, Associationfor World Education, BahaiInternational Community,

Bahrain Centre for HumanRights, Cairo Institute forHuman Rights Studies(CIHRS), Canadian HIV/AIDSLegal Network, Centre for Economicand Social Rights(CESR), Conectas,CREA (Creating Resources forEmpowerment in Action), DamascusCenter for Human Rights (DCHR),Democracy Coalition Project(DCP), East and Horn of AfricaHuman Rights Defenders Network

(EHAHRDN), Egyptian Associationfor Community ParticipationEnhancement (ECAPE), EgyptianInitiative for Personal Rights(EIPR), Egyptian Organization forHuman Rights (EOHR), Fdrationinternationale des droits de lhomme(FIDH),e Federation for Womenand Family Planning, HumanRights Council of Australia, HumanRights First Society-Saudi Arabia,Human Rights Watch (HRW),

International Commission of Jurists(ICJ), International Service forHuman Rights (ISHR), InternationalWomens Rights Action Watch AsiaPacic (IWRAW Asia Pacic),New Woman Research Foundation(NWRC), Palestinian Human RightsOrganization in Lebanon (PHRO).

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More than 70 civil societyorganisations, including FORUM-ASIA, called on member states of theUnited Nations to end uncompetitiveelections and vote trading for HumanRights Council elections. isstatement was issued on 18 August2009 in Geneva. In their letter dated13 August, the NGOs said that eachgovernment should publicly committo support contested and principledelectoral process for future elections.

Below is their statement.

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(see theHuman Rights Council ResolutionA/HRC/10/L.14 of 20 March2009)

Get involved and

support the OP!


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Living in a much pressured society

Regional solidarity on LGBT issues

needed

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