Human Rights and ASEAN

Kevin YL Tan is Visiting Professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he teaches Public International Law and International Human Rights. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law, Singapore Law in Context, and Law and Society. He has written and edited over 50 books on the law, history, and politics of Singapore. He is Board Member of the Human Rights Resource Centre.David Cohen is Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University. A leading expert in the fields of human rights, international law, and transitional justice, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1979 to 2012, and was the founding Director of the Berkeley War Crimes Study Center which moved to Stanford in 2013 as the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He has served as Advisor to the Human Rights Research Centre since its inception.Aviva Nababan is a human rights researcher and educator and a language consultant (Indonesian and English). Aviva has a Bachelor's degree in Education and Master's degrees in International Relations and Theories and Practice of Human Rights. Her past stints include developing and implementing programs on transitional justice, human rights education, and criminal justice reform for Asian International Justice Initiative (AIJI), a collaborative program between the East West Center and the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University (formerly the UC Berkeley War Crimes Study Center) in Jakarta and Cambodia. She was the Rule of Law Program Director at the Human Rights Resource Center in 2013-2014 and presently still assists the Centre in her capacity as a Board Member.

• Foreword (Ong Keng Yong); Preface (Kevin YL Tan & David Cohen); Bridging the Internal-External Nexus: ASEAN's Human Rights Development (RM Marty Natalegawa); Personal Reflections on the Formation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) (Bilahari Kausikan); An Overview of Human Rights Developments in ASEAN (Param Cumaraswamy); Civil Society and ASEAN: Of the People, By the People, For the People (Braema Marthi); ASEAN Treaty Practice: Trends in the Post-Charter Era (Ranyta Yusran); One Vision, Three Communities? Reflections on Human Rights in ASEAN's Community Blueprint (Michelle Staggs Kelsall); International Human Rights in the Constitutional Orders of the ASEAN States: A Preliminary Survey (Kevin YL Tan); Human Rights and Democracy and the Response of Indonesian Islam (Syafiq Hasyim); Women, Customary Law, and Rights to Participate in Decision-Making Process: Stores from the Customary Council in Rote and Labuan Bajo (Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo); Imagined Justice in Practice: The Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia (Daniel Mattes); Statelessness in ASEAN: Causes and Responses to a Protracted Problem (Rodziana Mohamed Razali & Christoph Sperfeldt); Child Marriage in the Eyes of Indonesian Police Officers: A Socio-Legal Perspective (Sulistyowati Irianto & Harkristuti Harisnowo); Human Rights and Peace Education in Singapore (Tamara Nair);