Viet Nam Human Rights
Ambassador Nguyen Thai Yen Huong, Vietnam’s AICHR representative and Chair of AICHR 2020, chaired the event.
At the event (Photo: vov)
It was the first activity during Vietnam’s tenure in the post in order to review the progress of AICHR’s priority programmes and reports on rights regarding education, environment, women, children and people with disabilities in tandem with priorities in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030.
The meeting also discussed the building of a working plan for the 2021-2025 period and AICHR’s priority programmes for 2021, measures to enhance working efficiency of AICHR and its relations with partners so as to further step up the promotion and protection of human rights in the region.
In its role as AICHR Chair, Vietnam actively and proactively pushed for important agenda to promote and protect human rights in line with AICRH’s terms of reference and ASEAN Charter.
Vietnam also continued upholding the spirit of solidarity, responsibility and cooperation among ASEAN member states, contributing to building a cohesive and responsive ASEAN in line with theme of ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020.
ASEAN member states pledged to work closely with Vietnam to help fulfil important tasks this year.
The next meeting of AICHR is scheduled in April at the ASEAN Secretariat’s headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia./.
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AICHR is currently attracting much attention of regional and local people’s organizations.
Participants made discussions and comments on the TOR of AICHR towards strengthening AICHR’s capacity.
AICHR helps enhancing the information exchange between AICHR and other organizations
VN has contributed to building a framework to strengthen the operational efficiency of AICHR and ASEAN
The organization helps ensuring social protection; and attaching greater importance to enhancement and protection of the rights of vulnerable groups such as women, children, victims of Agent Orange, people with disabilities...
It drew the participation of human rights experts, political figures, representatives from civil society organisations, activists, practitioners, and academicians from ASEAN, to highlight key events, challenges, opportunities, and recommendations in light of the AICHR 10-year review.
The dialogue is also hoped to activate collective political action to strengthen the AICHR’s protection mandate through proposals and strengthen the protection practices, with a view to enhance the protection of human rights in the region.
the AICHR needs to protect the rights of ASEAN people, not simply promoting human rights justice.
In its 10th year, the AICHR needs a new breakthrough to improve efficiency in the region.
The commission could boost innovation to maximise the protection of human rights and to make contributions to the development and peace maintenance in the region
over the past decade, the AICHR has successfully promoted regional instruments
the future will be brighter if countries in the region work together closely in socio-economic development, peace, and security, including human rights.
Since its establishment, the AICHR is tasked with developing strategies for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of peoples in ASEAN through the education, monitoring, and dissemination of information on human rights standards
The difficulty for ASEAN to implement human rights at the regional level is not surprising, since this organization consists of member states with many types of political systems, ranging from authoritarian to democratic ones.
the AICHR is currently still in the “promotional” stage of human rights development.
By understanding the AICHR in stages, its progress can be more easily measurable, and efforts to move to a higher level of human rights regime can be identified.
Advance to the next stage is indeed debatable, but as will be elaborated, the efforts of human rights proponents and their interactions in transnational networks of regional and global human rights, give hope that the issue of human rights in ASEAN will continue to be debated and encouraged.
However, it might take AICHR some years to move from declaratory to promotional and implementation regimes.
By promoting rights in this fashion, ASEAN people were expected to understand the importance of human rights for their countries, and civil society groups can cooperate to build a community that can creatively support the development of the AICHR.
In the global context, AICHR continues to be in interaction with international society regarding the implementation of human rights.
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