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December 19, 2024 Commentary

ASEAN Needs to Rethink Its Myanmar Strategy

An overhaul in ASEAN’s approach to Myanmar is clearly needed, but tilting toward the junta is the exact wrong direction.

Flags of member countries fly at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 22, 2021.
May 10, 2022 News Release

US-ASEAN: Promote Rights, Democracy at Summit

President Biden Should Raise Key Issues with Regional Leaders

United States President Joe Biden speaks in the virtual ASEAN summit meeting
May 9, 2022 Letter

HRW Letter to President Joe Biden Re: Human Rights and the US-ASEAN Special Summit

April 22, 2022 Commentary

How Does Inviting Autocrats to the White House Make Asia More Free?

The upcoming U.S.-ASEAN special summit stands in jarring juxtaposition to last year’s “Summit for Democracy” — to which most ASEAN states didn’t merit an invitation.

Flags of member countries fly at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 22, 2021.
November 24, 2020 News Release

Asian Nations Reject UN Vote Against Death Penalty

11 Asia-Pacific Governments Oppose 120 States on Capital Punishment Moratorium

A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, October 1, 2018.
June 24, 2019 Letter

Letter to Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne

Re: Protecting Human Rights in Australia’s Foreign Policy

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June 24, 2019 News Release

Australia: Protect Human Rights in Foreign Policy

Human Rights Council Seat Demands Greater Leadership

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May 22, 2019 News Release

Brunei: New Report on Abusive Penal Code

Law Retains Death Penalty for Private Consensual Sex

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah listens during the first executive session of the CHOGM summit at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, April 19, 2018.
May 22, 2019 Background Briefing

Brunei’s Pernicious New Penal Code

May 9, 2019 Dispatches

Don’t Go Easy on Brunei at UN Rights Review

Death Penalty, Whipping, and Amputation Remain on Statute Books

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah listens during the first executive session of the CHOGM summit at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, April 19, 2018.
April 17, 2019 Commentary

If Brunei’s New Stoning Law is Enforced, Sanction the Sultan

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah delivers a speech during the launch of Commemorative Notes of the 50th Anniversary of the Currency Interchangeability Agreement between Singapore and Brunei at the Istana Wednesday, July 5, 2017, in Singapore.
April 3, 2019 News Release

Brunei: New Penal Code Imposes Maiming, Stoning

Immediately Suspend Highly Abusive Law

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah listens during the first executive session of the CHOGM summit at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, April 19, 2018.
February 10, 2016 Commentary

Human Rights Shouldn't be Sidelined at ASEAN Summit

U.S. President Barack Obama passes in front of ASEAN members flags as he arrives for the Plenary session of the 21st ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and East Asia summits in Phnom Penh
February 10, 2016 News Release

US/ASEAN: Rights Should Top Sunnylands Agenda

Obama Should Press Leaders to End Repression

Prime Ministers Hun Sen and Prayut
January 12, 2016 News Release

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Serious Rights Concerns

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