US President Barack Obama should urge Asian leaders at the first ASEAN-US summit to unite in addressing the region’s most pressing human rights concerns.

Separatist insurgents should immediately cease their attacks on teachers in Thailand’s conflict-ridden southern border provinces.

Thai authorities should promptly and impartially investigate the massacre of 10 ethnic Malay Muslims at a mosque in southern Thailand and the retaliatory attacks on Buddhist monks and civilians.

The newly appointed members of Thailand's National Human Rights Commission, whose selection process violated constitutional requirements and international standards, should resign to restore the commission's credibility.

The Thai government should set up an independent commission to carry out a prompt, effective, and impartial investigation into the politically motivated violence by all sides during the recent protests and hold those responsible accountable.

The killing of a prominent Muslim women's rights activist by alleged separatist insurgents is a major setback to ending violence in Thailand's southern border provinces.

The new government of Thailand should ensure that those responsible for the enforced disappearance and presumed murder of prominent Muslim human rights lawyer, Somchai Neelappaijit, are finally brought to justice.

As leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet at the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin this week, recent events on other Asian coastlines presents a challenge to the grouping. The plight of the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority from Burma was revealed when several boats containing hundreds of exhausted men arrived on Thai, Indian, and Indonesian shores in January.