It has been a year since ASEAN's new human rights body, the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), came into being on 23 October 2009. Prior to the upcoming 17th ASEAN Smmit on 28th – 30th October in Ha Noi, Viet Nam 2010, the Solidarity for Asian Peoples Advocacy Taskforce on ASEAN Human Rights (SAPA TF-AHR) and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) are holding a press conference to launch