BANGKOK – After the deluge of headlines during ASEAN’s 50th birthday in 2017 and before that, the start of the ASEAN Community in 2016, this year may signal a return to what many see as ASEAN’s return to its uneventful – or boring – ways.
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As the celebration for last year’s 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wanes, ASEAN now face the tasks to realise the ambitious vision of an integrated socio-cultural.
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It’s a great privilege to be invited here to speak to you about the dire human rights situation in the Philippines. I want to thank Lia Sciortino and her team at SEA Junction for organizing this important event to commemorate Human Rights Day.
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Thank you all for being here. My name is Phil Robertson , and I’m the deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch. I want to thank you all for coming, and I want to thank SEA Junction’s director, Rosalia Sciortino
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On 24 September, a panel discussion entitled Safe from the Start was organised by Southeast Asia (SEA) Junction in collaboration with the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Southeast Asia (HBF).
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The Southeast Asian region is home to major labor-sending countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar) as well as labor-receiving countries (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, which also receive large numbers of labor migrants from Nepal, Bangladesh, India).
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Annam Tinnawa?”, (Have you had rice yet?) was how Sivappa, the care taker of our apartment in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad, used to greet me every day. Sometimes more than once a day.
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Good afternoon. Thank you, Lia for the brief introduction. I want first to expand a bit on my background. My sojourn in Southeast Asia spans altogether four decades.
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ASEAN member states struggle to find effective solutions when confronted with forced movements of people escaping conflict and seeking refuge across border.
On 13 May 2017 the series “The Rice of Southeast Asia” was launched with a Public Lecture on the Origins of Tai Ancient Culture by Tongthan Natjumnong, editor of Siam Rat newspaper, historian, poet, and political commentator.
