The 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.