Delegates suggested their rights could be best protected by using ASEAN mechanisms and educating people about human rights in ASEAN nations – and in Viet Nam in particular.
They emphasised the important role of mass organisations in the promotion and protection of the rights of women and children. They said all people were entitled to have their rights protected by international and national laws.
According to the delegates, human rights-related issues have become more important to ASEAN in the past 20 years, especially since the term "human rights" was placed on the agenda of the ASEAN Ministerial Meetings in 1993.
ASEAN has approved several documents regarding human rights, including the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the ASEAN Region, the ASEAN Declaration against Trafficking in Persons, Particularly Women and Children, and the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers.
The Vientiane Action Programme also underlined the need to establish an ASEAN commission on the rights of women and children.
Since its accession to the United Nations in 1977, Viet Nam has joined a wide range of human-rights conventions and has played a growing role in forming ASEAN mechanisms for the protection of human rights.
Co-hosted by the Institute of Human Rights under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, the UN Development Fund for Women and the Canadian International Development Agency, the seminar marked World Human Rights Day tomorrow. — VNS
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