MODULE 6 - Tactics and Strategies in Engaging ASEAN for Human Rights

In order to overcome this, ASEAN bodies formulate their own CSO engagement procedures, including the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) and the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ACMW). [...] This involves careful consideration of the resources at the disposal of the coalition wanting a policy change, the preparation required, the timing of particular actions and the use of the media Whether a particular campaign to change policy is successful or not depends on a range of factors, some of which are out of the control of civil society organisations. [...] 17 In 2016 the farmers of Kendeng and Yayasan Lingkungan Hidup (WALHI) won the case to annul the environmental permit in 2016 before the Supreme Court.18 However, in November of the same year the Governor of Central Java issued a Decree that allows the mining for cement materials and the construction and operation of Cement factory in Rembang.19 The controversy had the Ministry of Environment step. [...] Refer to the section in the ToR of the AICHR about the role of the SG to “bring relevant issues to the attention of the AICHR in accordance with Article 11.2 (a) and (b) of the ASEAN Charter. [...] It is essential for AICHR to support the will of the people in Myanmar, by condemning the brutality of the military junta and synergising its efforts with the 34 MODULE 6 TACTICS ANDSTRATEGIES IN ENGAGING ASEAN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY international community and civil society across the region, to immediately put an end to the gross human rights violations since the coup on 1 February.