What is the Asean stance on human rights?
The Asean position on human rights can be found in the Joint Communique of the July 1993 Asean Ministerial Meeting: “The Foreign Ministers welcomed the international consensus achieved during the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, 14-25 June 1993, and reaffirmed Asean’s commitment to and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as set out in the Vienna Declaration of 25 June 1993. They stressed that human rights are interrelated and indivisible comprising civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. These rights are of equal importance. They should be addressed in a balanced and integrated manner and protected and promoted with due regard for specific cultural, social, economic and political circumstances. They emphasized that the promotion and protection of human rights should not be politicised. The Foreign Ministers agreed that Asean should coordinate a common approach on human rights and actively participate and contribute to the application, promotion
The Asean position on human rights can be found in the Joint Communique of the July 1993 Asean Ministerial Meeting: “The Foreign Ministers welcomed the international consensus achieved during the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, 14-25 June 1993, and reaffirmed Asean’s commitment to and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as set out in the Vienna Declaration of 25 June 1993. They stressed that human rights are interrelated and indivisible comprising civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. These rights are of equal importance. They should be addressed in a balanced and integrated manner and protected and promoted with due regard for specific cultural, social, economic and political circumstances. They emphasized that the promotion and protection of human rights should not be politicised. The Foreign Ministers agreed that Asean should coordinate a common approach on human rights and actively participate and contribute to the application, promotion
