Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously?

Alison Duxbury is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and a member of the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Alison's major research interests are in the fields of international law, international institutional law and human rights law. Her previous publications include The Participation of States in International Organisations: The Role of Human Rights and Democracy (Cambridge, 2011) and a co-edited book, Military Justice in the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2016). Duxbury has been a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge, the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London.

Critically examines ASEAN's human rights system in the context of Southeast Asian political-legal developments and the global human rights discourse

1. Assessing human rights implementation in Southeast Asia; 2. Understanding the tensions and ambiguities in Southeast Asian attitudes towards human rights; 3. The utility of human rights mechanisms in the ASEAN region; 4. Operationalising human rights in ASEAN; Conclusion: taking human rights seriously in ASEAN.