Promoting human rights in Southeast Asia/ASEAN still remains a problem and a pressing challenge of the new millennium. There are many reasons for this; chief among them are the different human rights issues across Southeast Asia/ASEAN that have resulted in the different positions and approaches taken to address these issues both on local and regional levels. While it is important to acknowledge the diversity within the region as an another key contributing reason to this conundrum, the core of the above mentioned problems is “not just the state of rights, but the fact that the very concept of human rights remains foreign to most states in the region” (Chachavalpongpun, paragraph XVI, 2018). This raises the pertinent question of whether people of the region with diverse backgrounds and needs are aware of such concept, and if they do, to what extent and degree.
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Authors: Collin Jerome, Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha, Zaimuariffudin Shukri Nordin, Damien Mikeng and Ting Su Hie.
Topic: Human Rights
