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(Tokyo) – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan should give public prominence to human rights issues and concerns at the Japan-ASEAN summit, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the prime minister.

December 11, 2013 News Release

Japan: Promote Rights at ASEAN Summit
Asia

November 13, 2012 News Release

Cambodia: Hun Sen Promoting, Rewarding Killers
Asia

July 17, 2012 News Release

Cambodia: After US, ASEAN Leave, Media Critic Jailed

News

December 11, 2013 Letter

Letter to Prime Minister Abe on Making Human Rights a Cornerstone of the Japan-ASEAN Summit
November 19, 2012 Statement

Civil Society Denounces Adoption of Flawed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
July 9, 2012 News Release

Cambodia: Clinton Should Prioritize Improving Human Rights
June 21, 2012 Statement

ASEAN: Less than Adequate
May 14, 2012 Commentary

Betraying human rights, ASEAN style

Phil Robertson
Deputy Director, Asia Division

Published In: The Nation
May 7, 2012 Letter

Joint Letter on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
April 26, 2012 Commentary

ASEAN’s road to nowhere?

Phil Robertson
Deputy Director, Asia Division

Published In: Strategic Review
October 3, 2011 News Release

Burma: Thai Leader Should Promote Rights During Visit
May 9, 2011 Commentary

Burma’s New President Is No Moderate

David Scott Mathieson
Senior Researcher, Asia Division

Published In: The Jakarta Globe
May 6, 2011 News Release

ASEAN: Reject Burma as Regional Group’s Chair
May 5, 2011 News Release

ASEAN: Reject Burma as Regional Group’s Chair
March 28, 2010 Letter

Letter to Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa Regarding his Upcoming Trip to Burma
November 12, 2009 News Release

US/ASEAN: Obama Should Press Asian Leaders on Rights
February 27, 2009 Commentary

The Rohingya Test -Asean's Human Rights Responsibilities

Elaine Pearson

Published In: The Nation
February 25, 2009 News Release

ASEAN: Make Human Rights a Regional Concern
July 23, 1999 News Release

ASEAN Should Address East Timor, Governance Issues

Daily Brief

February 15, 2019

UN investigation needed into mass internment of an estimated one million Turkic Muslims; US still rejects regulations preventing ‘Killer Robots’; new wave of anti-LGBT persecution in Chechnya; post-election killings test for new DR Congo president; 300 babies die in war zones every day; growing concern for jailed women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia; antisemitism on the rise across Europe; rights lawyer faces bogus charges in Equatorial Guinea; and new Barbie doll could help fight stigma around physical disabilities.