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AICHR Annual Report 2018

This Annual Report covers the period between July 2017 and June 2018.

The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened four AICHR Meetings, and organised a series of activities in line with its annual Priority Programmes/Activities 2017/2018 for the period under review.

On cross-pillar and cross-sectoral cooperation, the Task Force on the Mainstreaming of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the ASEAN Community initiated by the AICHR and held in collaboration with the Senior Officials’ Meeting on Social Welfare and Development (SOMSWD) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) has continued its deliberation for an ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025: Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The AICHR Cross-Sectoral Consultation on the Human Rights-based Instruments related to the Implementation of the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Person, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP) was organised as a follow-up to the AICHR-SOMTC consultation held in November 2015 on similar theme.

The fourth youth debate on human rights and a roundtable on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration were organised in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN.

Some notable progress in the work of the AICHR include the completion of the second AICHR Thematic Study, namely on Women Affected by Natural Disasters, and conferment of twelve CSOs with Consultative Relationship with the AICHR.

On the external relations front, the AICHR hosted the 2nd ASEAN-EU Policy Dialogue on Human Rights together with the ACWC, the ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW), and the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (ACMW) in November 2017. In December 2017, the AICHR conducted a study visit to Australia at the invitation of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The full report is available for download:

AICHR Annual Report 2018

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