Since 2012, the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) has been expected to serve as a regional standard in identifying and addressing multiple issues concerning human rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy. It is anticipated, to a certain extent, that the AHRD guide regional bodies, national governments, and civil society actors to act on multiple, intersecting social, economic, and political challenges. However, on its tenth year of adoption, we are greatly reminded that there is still so much to be done to make ASEAN a safe, brave and empowering region for all.
This essay competition shall give undergraduate students in Southeast Asia a platform to examine the impacts of AHRD over the past ten years. Ultimately, we are keen to know if the Declaration has made any impacts on human rights of ASEAN peoples and how it can be strengthened or reformed in light of achieving a culture of human rights in ASEAN/Southeast Asia.
Essay writers are expected to reflect on and analyze the impact of AHRD at the individual and/or institutional levels. By either examining the document as whole or a particular article found in this regional document, it hoped that entries from all over Southeast Asia can contribute to deepening public awareness and to the improve of the human rights situation in the region.
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