NGOs Call for Asean Rights Document Delay
With less than two weeks until Asean leaders meet in Phnom Penh to consider approval of the region’s first human rights declaration, international NGOs yesterday urged them to postpone passing what they are calling a “deeply flawed” document. … “In the current form, the [Asean Human Rights] Declaration falls short of existing international human rights standards and risks creating a sub-standard level of human rights protection in the region,” Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House and several other NGOs said in a joint statement. …
