The struggle to uphold a regional human rights regime: the winding role of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)

Hara, Abubakar Eby

doi:10.1590/0034-7329201900111

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“…ASEAN also made changes in its organization by declaring ASEAN Charter, People-Centered ASEAN, ASEANCommunity, and ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). Some ASEAN countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines are pushing for greater openness and want the formation of a stronger AICHR [29]. This process shows that the external conditions also affect domestic conditions in ASEAN.…”

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Asean Responses to External Challenges From the Cold War to Indo-Pacifif: Does Asean Still Play a Pivotal Role?

Hara¹,

Patriadi²,

Trihartono³

2019

The International Conference on ASEAN 2019

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This paper discusses how ASEAN responds to its international environment by specific reference to the concept of ASEAN centrality. The approach that has been used to explain the centrality of ASEAN, namely neorealism and constructivismgenerally emphasizes just one aspect, eitherexternal or internal. Therefore, we need an approach that can see how the two elements are filtered by ASEAN decision-makers to respond to the developments in the region. We argue that neo-classical realism can fill this gap. From neoclassical realism approach, theaccomplishment of ASEAN centrality is largely determined by the ability of decision-makers to formulate attitudes and positions in a solid manner in facing challenges and opportunities in the international structure. Failure to formulate joint responses solidly can result in the ease of ASEAN members being infiltrated by outside interests.

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Asean Responses to External Challenges From the Cold War to Indo-Pacifif: Does Asean Still Play a Pivotal Role?

Hara¹,

Patriadi²,

Trihartono³

2019

The International Conference on ASEAN 2019

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“…At the global level, international political security moves from bipolar to multipolar security. It has a parallel with the extension of security challenges which occurred at global, regional, and national level such as globalisation, drug, and human trafficking, transnational haze, terrorism, endemic diseases [46]. Traditional security perspective oriented on state and military security is unable to address these new challenges.…”

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Transformation From State-Centered to People-Centered Security in Asean Community: Milestone of the Asean Approach to Human Security

Indriastuti¹

2019

The International Conference on ASEAN 2019

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through the establishment of the ASEAN Community in 2015 has formally entered a new milestone in its security perspectives, from solely focus on state-centered to people-centered security. Previously, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1994 introduced the people-centered approach to security, namely human security. The United Nations (UN) has emphasised that the human security framework facilitates member states to handle widespread and cross-cutting challenges to the survival, livelihood, and dignity of their people. Nevertheless, while ASEAN community concerns on peoplecentered security, it has not made any reference to the term human security in its formal documents. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ASEAN version of people-centered security, whether substantially following the UN's human security or creating a new different version. This study applies process tracing analysis and found that ASEAN develops its own version of people-centered security embraced by ASEAN Way as the governing value in ASEAN. The study brings a new contribution to human security studies by proposing ASEAN version of human security in addition to the UN, Japanese, Canadian, and the Europe Union approach to human security.

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“…Not many studies have focused on AICHR's mandate of human rights promotion, as the success of human rights promotional mandates can be achieved with a relatively less effort in comparison to human rights protection functions. Hara (2017Hara ( , 2019a and Olivia (2014) points this issue out in their published article, which focused on the inability of the AICHR to respond to human rights oppressions in the region of Southeast Asia, due to the lack of clear protection mandates given to the commission.…”

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“…The AICHR acts as a consultative inter-governmental body, with the mandates of promoting and protecting human rights. It is worthy to highlight that one of AICHR's most notable successes include the adoption of the 'ASEAN Human Rights Declaration' in 2012, which disseminates the Southeast Asian's definition of human rights in the region (Olivia, 2014a;Hara, 2019c). Although seen as a major breakthrough for a region that has throughout the years consisted of diversified government and political systems, it is not without its critics.…”

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“…After running a decade, the hope for a strong human rights regime has not been fulfilled. Human rights oppressions have continued to take place in Southeast Asia, with close to no response from commissions such as AICHR (Olivia, 2014a;Hara, 2019b). This article will not argue about the deficiencies of the AICHR as a human rights regime that has evolved in the region, considering the extensive list of literature on the topic.…”

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Constructing an Inadequate Human Rights Regime: Indonesia and the Deliberate Weakening of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Authority

Darwis¹

2020

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The establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in 2019 provided hopes for the advancement of human rights in Southeast Asia. As a region that puts forward the notions of consensus and non-sovereignty, concluding regional human rights norms is seen as a first step in solidifying human rights protection in the region. Unfortunately, since its establishment, the commission has failed to fulfill the expectations to implement protection-based regional norms in Southeast Asia, measured by their failure to effectively respond to systemic human rights abuses in the region. This article employs the Neoliberal Institutionalist's view of Hegemonic Stability Theory (specifically to Robert Keohane) in analyzing how regional hegemons such as Indonesia, have deliberately directed the establishment of a weak human rights regime, in the form of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, which is proven by; (1) The Commission's deficiencies in human rights protection, and (2) Indonesia's lack of political will in solidifying human rights regimes in Southeast Asia.

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The struggle to uphold a regional human rights regime: the winding role of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Asean Responses to External Challenges From the Cold War to Indo-Pacifif: Does Asean Still Play a Pivotal Role?

Asean Responses to External Challenges From the Cold War to Indo-Pacifif: Does Asean Still Play a Pivotal Role?

Transformation From State-Centered to People-Centered Security in Asean Community: Milestone of the Asean Approach to Human Security

Constructing an Inadequate Human Rights Regime: Indonesia and the Deliberate Weakening of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Authority

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