The UDHR and Human Rights in ASEAN - Dr. Dinna Wisnu Human Rights After Seventy Years: The View from the South Article Seventy years after the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and twenty-five years of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programmes of Action (VDPA), human rights are found in country’s constitutions and also incorporated in regional instruments. However, there is no issue as heated as the universality character of human rights. By Yuyun Wahyuningrum Messages in the Social Media Bottle Article In the Southeast Asian region, the Philippines tops the list as the highest in terms of remittances from their exported labor. In 2015, the country received more than US$30 billion in remittances — which makes it the third highest in the entire world. While many of the emerging economies as well as industrialized nations rely on these remittances and foreign workers, many stories filter out from certain nations of exploitation and abuse inflicted upon these migrant workers. By Jose Santos P. Ardivilla The UDHR and Migrant Workers Rights in ASEAN - Jolovan Wham The UDHR and Democracy in ASEAN - Dr. Naruemon Thambhumpon Human Rights Against Populism: A Progressive Response to the Politics of Duterte and Mahathir Article As the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 2018–2019, the region of Southeast Asia highlights two compelling political phenomena: the emergent ‘authoritarian populism’ of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and the return to the ‘Asian Values’ of Mahathir Mohamad in Malaysia. By Bonn Juego Rethinking the Mobility (and Immobility) of Queer Rights in Southeast Asia: A Provocation Article Seventy years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly, what we have witnessed is that its claim of universality has been consistently challenged. While all human beings are deemed born automatically free with equal rights, the very definition of human itself in practice is not always neutral. By Hendri Yulius The UDHR and LGBTI Rights in ASEAN - Dr. Dédé Oetomo Contributors Dédé Oetomo Founder and Trustee of GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, Board of APCOM Foundation, and adjunct lecturer at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya Naruemon Thabchumpon Assistant Professor at Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University Jolovan Wham Civil rights activist & migrant workers' rights advocate Dinna Wisnu Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Comission on Human Rights (AICHR) 2016 - 2018 Yuyun Wahyuningrum Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Comission on Human Rights (AICHR) 2019 - 2021 and PhD Researcher at ISS The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Jose Santos P. Ardivilla Political cartoonist, printmaker, animator, and writer Hendri Yulius Researcher of Gender and Sexuality Studies Bonn Juego University Teacher and Academic Researcher at University of Jyväskylä
Human Rights After Seventy Years: The View from the South Article Seventy years after the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and twenty-five years of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programmes of Action (VDPA), human rights are found in country’s constitutions and also incorporated in regional instruments. However, there is no issue as heated as the universality character of human rights. By Yuyun Wahyuningrum
Messages in the Social Media Bottle Article In the Southeast Asian region, the Philippines tops the list as the highest in terms of remittances from their exported labor. In 2015, the country received more than US$30 billion in remittances — which makes it the third highest in the entire world. While many of the emerging economies as well as industrialized nations rely on these remittances and foreign workers, many stories filter out from certain nations of exploitation and abuse inflicted upon these migrant workers. By Jose Santos P. Ardivilla
Human Rights Against Populism: A Progressive Response to the Politics of Duterte and Mahathir Article As the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 2018–2019, the region of Southeast Asia highlights two compelling political phenomena: the emergent ‘authoritarian populism’ of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and the return to the ‘Asian Values’ of Mahathir Mohamad in Malaysia. By Bonn Juego
Rethinking the Mobility (and Immobility) of Queer Rights in Southeast Asia: A Provocation Article Seventy years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly, what we have witnessed is that its claim of universality has been consistently challenged. While all human beings are deemed born automatically free with equal rights, the very definition of human itself in practice is not always neutral. By Hendri Yulius
Dédé Oetomo Founder and Trustee of GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, Board of APCOM Foundation, and adjunct lecturer at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya
Dinna Wisnu Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Comission on Human Rights (AICHR) 2016 - 2018
Yuyun Wahyuningrum Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Comission on Human Rights (AICHR) 2019 - 2021 and PhD Researcher at ISS The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
