The Rohingyas : Asean's example of human rights moving in reverse

Name: Sherwan Jomkhamsing

keyword: ASEAN

; Rohinyas

; Human rights

; Genocide

; Ethnic persecution

; Myanmar

; Sovereignty

; International community

Abstract: ASEAN still struggles significantly in implementing one of the most fundamental necessity for its people, as prescribed in its own Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as ASEAN Charter) in the Preamble, “… respect for and protection of human rights and fundamental freedom”. Its ambitious goal of building a strong, cohesive and prosperous community in order to promote development and prosperity for its peoples is critically challenged globally for its inability to address serious issues regarding human rights in its region. In this respect, the researcher would like to pick one of the thirty human rights clauses, regarding the “Right to Nationality” as prescribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948, Article 15, to construct this research and assess it with one of the most current and controversial issue in ASEAN, that is, the crisis of the Rohingyas in Myanmar. The people of Rohingyas have no citizenship recognized by any state, no place to take refuge and the most alarming part, no place to return to. With no national citizenship, the tribe is faced with inconceivable hardships ; they have become the human targets of various social injustices, having been stripped of their basic human rights and along with them, their human dignity. Not only does the statelessness of the Rohingyas affect Myanmar, it has caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to flee from their land and seek refuge in neighboring countries affecting the whole Southeast Asian region. As the regional organization, it is ASEAN’s duty to address this issue. Astonishingly, ASEAN did not take serious measures into resolving this issue. This raised various concerns and criticism of how ASEAN is treating its human rights violator’s member countries or what is ASEAN’s stance on issues as such. In this regards, this research will use the example of the current state of the Rohingyas as the case study to elaborate the gap between the internationally recognized term of human rights and the ASEAN’s perspectives on how the organization has agreed to recognize it. Moreover, this research will discuss the reasons preventing ASEAN from confronting such issues and predict if there are any possibilities that these can change in the future

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Jaran Maluleem

Role: advisor

Created: 2014

Modified: 2022-01-27

Issued: 2022-01-27

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2014.155

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DegreeName: Master of Political Science

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: International Relations

Grantor: Thammasat University

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