Human Rights in ASEAN – Current Issues and Future Prospects of an ASEAN Human Rights Regime
Agenda
Keynote
Prof. Andreas Føllesdal, Director, PluriCourts Center of Excellence, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
“The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: A Principle of Subsidiarity to the Rescue?”
Response statements from Thai experts
Chalida Tajaroensuk, Executive Director, People Empowerment Foundation (PEF)
Dr. Seree Nonthasoot, Representative of Thailand to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
Report
On 25 November 2015, CPG hosted a seminar on “Human Rights in ASEAN – Current Issues and Future Prospects of an ASEAN Human Rights Regime” at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. The seminar provided a platform for discussion on problems and potentials of the establishment of a regional human rights regime for Southeast Asia. Keynote speaker Prof. Andreas Føllesdal, Director of the PluriCourts Center of Excellence at the University of Oslo, presented “The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: A Principle of Subsidiarity to the Rescue?” in which he proposed the principle of subsidiarity as a possible structural principle of international law to be applied to the ASEAN Human Rights framework.
His presentation was complemented by response statements by Chalida Tajaroensuk, Executive Director of the People’s Empowerment Foundation, and Dr. Seree Nonthasoot, Representative of Thailand to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), elaborating the chances and challenges to the implementation of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration in Thailand and the region.
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