Abstract
This paper focuses on the dynamics of civil society that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently has activated at regional level by examining regional-level civil society organisations and networks non-governmental organisations (NGOs), looking at the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA) and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA). The paper also uncovers how ASEAN has established, maintained, and changed the concept of civil society and human rights. In addition, the paper investigates the relationship between regionalism and the institutionalisation of human rights mechanisms. Discourses on civil society and human rights in ASEAN have been associated closely with political discourses, including regionalism and communitarianism; and the normative discourses in Asian civil society have unfolded, more or less, with the acceptance of these developments. While examining the human rights discourses in Southeast Asia, the paper explores the dynamics of Asian civil society and human rights that might differ from western NGO's practices.
Highlights
Since the end of the Cold War, greater awareness of human rights throughout East Asia can be seen in the rapid growth and spread of democratization and transnational civil society movements
For the purposes of this investigation, this paper focuses on the dynamics of civil society at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional level and explores how the norms of civil society and human rights have been established, accommodated and changed by civil society organizations and network non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Law Association for Asia and the Pacifik (LAWASIA) and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
This paper explores the establishment of the ASEAN human rights mechanism, including the ASEAN institutional reforms and the roles that civil society and networked NGOs have played
Summary
Since the end of the Cold War, greater awareness of human rights throughout East Asia can be seen in the rapid growth and spread of democratization and transnational civil society movements. Human rights mechanisms, comparing them with those in European, American, African, and Middle Eastern countries He compared other mechanisms within ASEAN, such as the ASEAN Machinery on Migrant Workers and on the Rights of Women and Children, ASEAN Regional Forum, and ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.[3] Southwick had analysed the drafting and adoption process of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) of 2012 and concluded that the AICHR was insufficient to support constructive engagement with civil society.[4] Turning to the formation of regional norms, atsumata e amined the conflicting views of whether ASEAN had introduced human rights norms in response to western pressure, or from a desire to emulate the western model. The activities and movements of FORUM-ASIA, a network NGO that played a key role in this process, are reviewed, while the implications for the institutionalization of human rights mechanisms and on-going regional integration are investigated
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