ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (9)
Submission from Indonesia’s Civil Society Organisations on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) 24 April 2012
Written by YansGENERAL PRINCIPLES
1. All persons are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of humanity.
2. No one shall be discriminated on the grounds of race, colour, sexual orientation and gender identity, language, religion, age, political or other opinions, national or social origin, property, place of birth, or other status.
3. All persons have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
4. Every person has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realisation of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national, regional and international levels without any arbitrary sanction or interference.
5. Every person whose human rights have been violated has the right to an effective and enforceable remedy, to be determined by a court or other competent authorities.
6. All human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, interrelated and of equal importance.
7. Everyone has the right to informed participation in decisions, which affect their human rights. States should consult with relevant national mechanisms, including parliaments, and civil society, in the design and implementation of policies and measures relevant to their obligations in relation to economic, social and cultural rights.
SEANF'S POSITION ON THE ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION
Written by YansThe South EastAsia NHRIsForum (SEANF),as an independent sub-regional human rights mechanism, comprised of NHRIs of Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand, Timor Leste and the Philippines, sees its vital role to engage with regional human rights issues and mechanisms as well as its potential contribution to the drafting of the ASEAN Human Rights Dec/aration(AHRD),which will serve as the basisfor the establishment of a framework for human rights cooperation as enshrined in Article 4.2 of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights' (A/CHR) Terms of Reference.
Women’s Human Rights Advocates on the ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION
Proposal of Indigenous Peoples for inclusion to the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
“Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal in dignity and rights to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, we thereby recognize the distinct identities and diverse cultures of indigenous peoples in ASEAN and commit ourselves to take measures to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
HRRC Recommendations for the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD)
Written by YansSubmitted to ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on 3 January 2012
Introduction
The Human Rights Resource Centre (hereafter the HRRC or the Centre) is a regional research foundation legally established on 31 March 2010 by nine prominent human rights experts from ASEAN Member States, including the former Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Ong Keng Yong, with the objectives to contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights in the ASEAN region through research, analysis, capacity building and teaching. This objective is in line with the Preamble of ASEAN Charter which stated that Member Nations should, inter alia, adhere to:
CIVIL SOCIETY’S POSITION PAPER ON ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION
(Draft)
INTRODUCTION
Under Article 4(2) of its Terms of Reference (ToR), the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), has been mandated “to develop an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration with a view to establishing a framework for human rights cooperation through various ASEAN conventions and other instruments dealing with human rights”.[1]
Submission of Amnesty International-Thailand on the rights to be included in the ASEAN Declaration on Human Rights
February 2011
Introduction
Below is a list of those human rights which Amnesty International-Thailand believes must form the skeleton of the ASEAN Declaration on Human Rights (ADHR). In view of the early stage in the drafting process at which this submission is made, rights are listed in their bare form, without the substantive content which the final Declaration itself will contain.
Draft Human Rights Declaration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Written by YansPreamble
All humans are born free and in dignity, endowed with a spirit to develop to the fullest potential. They are vested with inalienable human rights - as entitlements to be enjoyed and respected, and for which the State has the primary responsibility to promote and protect. Those rights are guaranteed universally and interlink between civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights indivisibly.
ELECTION ACCESS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: AGENDA RECOMMENDATIONS PAPER FOR THE ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION
Written by YansAGENDA, a network of disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) that work to promote election access for persons with disabilities throughout ASEAN Member States, submits this recommendation paper to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to consider in adopting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD).
