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4 February 2021 Author: Mathew Davies, ANU With the Myanmar military (the Tatmadaw) once again on the streets, and NLD leaders once again under arrest, the country’s decade-long experiment with democracy appears to be over. Myanmar and its Southeast Asian neighbours are no strangers to coups, but these events reveal not only the weakness of ASEAN’s commitments to human rights and democracy, but their fundamental failure. This failure is neither accidental nor unforeseen — it has been hard-wired into the regional body.   Military coups, whether in Myanmar or elsewhere in Southeast Asia,...

Article Southeast Asia: AICHR will continue the discussion on mitigating the effects of COVID-19, particularly business-related human rights issues "Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights to commence", 1 February 2021 The 32nd meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will ... be virtually convened under Brunei’s chairmanship with the participation of AICHR representatives and the ASEAN Secretariat. The AICHR, established in 2009 to promote the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, specifies its priorities based on its five-year ...

Preparations underway to fight human trafficking at Super Bowl LV in Tampa Jake Stofan, Tallahassee corespondent Tags:  FILE - In this March 25, 2020, fikle photo, medical personnel from BayCare test people for the coronavirus in the parking lot outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla, the site of Super Bowl LV. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Thursday was International Human Rights Day, commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations following World War II. Part of the declarat...