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The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) was inaugurated by the ASEAN Leaders on 23 October 2009 at the 15th ASEAN Summit in Cha-Am Hua Hin, Thailand. This...

30 Civil Society Organizations which have consultative relationship with the ASEAN

On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration 2012 (AHRD), the Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC) joined the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission o...

China's economic and political influence is growing all over the world, particularly in Southeast Asia, its own backyard. China's Belt and Road Initiative is extending that infl...

WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom ...

This is an archived webpage on the Mekong River.

This is an archived webpage on the physiography of the Mekong River.

Corruption is a major impediment to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Adopted in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call on world leaders to end poverty...

Civil society is at its best when people at all levels of society adopt an idea. Here's how to get involved.

Civil society is at its best when people at all levels of society adopt an idea. Here's how to get involved.

Civil society is widely understood as the space outside the family, market and state (WEF, 2013). What constitutes civil society has developed and grown since the term first bec...

This paper aims to provide a brief but comprehensive explanation of Cambodia’s government and parliamentary system. It explains why Cambodia has a Parliament, what it does, how ...

Technological innovation unveiled numerous opportunities for civic activism. Social software foster collaboration, mobilization, and information exchange. A whole series of open...

Public participation in governance involves the direct or indirect involvement of stakeholders in decision-making about policies, plans or programs in which they have an interes...

Our society is at a tipping point. Consequently, there is an urgent need for developing sustainable economic and social solutions for change. This is where transparency comes...

Understand what civic engagement means and how to motivate voter participation.

To help newsrooms fine-tune their strategies for covering this scandal — and whistleblowing complaints that are sure to come forward, both locally and nationally, in the future ...

The LuxLeaks revelations were unprecedented not only in the level of corruption they uncovered, but also in the vast array of journalists from different media organisations work...

In bureaucracies, paper is power. As part of their digital transformation, governments are seeking to improve both efficiency and transparency, through the expansion of digital ...

As the EU passes new laws to protect those who report wrongdoing, veteran investigative journalists share their advice on collaborating with whistleblowers.