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Building a community for sexual orientation and gender identity rights in ASEAN

  • Professor Meredith Weiss,

If ASEAN is unlikely to see its way toward SOGIE rights, the arena it reifies arguably helps activists navigate strategies.

Governance or social resilience: Learning from Southeast Asia’s experience with COVID-19

WEBINAR: How Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam are weathering the COVID-19 crisis.

Pandemics, politics and principles: business and human rights in Southeast Asia in a time of crisis

  • Professor Andrew Rosser, Dr Kate Macdonald and Dr Ken M.P. Setiawan ,

It’s clear that full implementation of the UNGPs in Southeast Asia isn’t currently politically feasible.

Is ASEAN doing enough to address business and human rights?

  • Dr Randy Wirasta Nandyatama & Dr Muhammad Rum,

ASEAN has taken steps to improve human rights protections, but its silo mentality is hampering action on business and human rights.

Myanmar’s military: Its power over business and human rights and the UN’s Guiding Principles

  • Professor Catherine Renshaw,

The difficulties of implementing the UNGPs on business and human rights in a ‘pervasive culture of immunity’.

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