The ASEAN Inter-governmental Human Rights Commission (AICHR) was established in 2009 by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as their human rights commitment under Article 14 of the ASEAN Charter. This article is written under the perspective of ASEAN Charter to explain the power...

The notion that human rights are universal, i.e., to be applied in the same way everywhere regardless of regional or national particularities, has in recent decades been called into question by governments in various regions of the world. These governments argue that the nature and scope of...

Book review of Tan Hsien-Li, The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalizing Human Rights in Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pages i-xiii 308: ISBN: 978-1-107-00449-8 (Hardback)