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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’.

Obstacles to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

  • Dr Kate Macdonald,

There are persistent, and in many respects, intensifying obstacles confronting the business and human rights agenda in Southeast Asia.

Global Arabic Studies: Lessons from a Transnational Asian Heritage. (中文)

  • Tarek Makhlouf ,

Arabic studies should go beyond the Arabic world to include Arabic language, culture, script and literature through Asia.

Uncivil Society: How democracy is being undermined from within

  • Professor Vedi Hadiz,

Democracy advocates are confronting the reality that they face hindrances from civil society as well as the state.

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