Human Rights Mechanism Through ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism

Abstract

The new spirit of ASEAN Human Right mechanism has indicated how crucial the arrangements regarding human rights in Southeast Asia region are, the establishment of ASEAN human rights enforcement has become the main pillar to accommodate the rights of ASEAN community. ASEAN human rights mechanism became the main instruments to protect and guarantee human rights in Southeast Asia region. However, the existence of ASEAN human rights mechanism has become a knife with double-edge. On one side, the ASEAN human rights mechanism recognized as a great achievement in upholding human rights in Southeast Asia region. On the other side, the ASEAN human rights mechanism has faced weakening issues that influenced by the political consideration among the ASEAN member countries to enforce human rights based on their will. Consequently, there are several human rights violations in Southeast Asia region that cannot be resolved until today and it has drawn the attention of international community. Therefore, the ASEAN human rights mechanism is still far from being perfect. Based on the reality it became a basis to drive the writer to do a research. The methodology that will be used is a normative method with a conceptual approach. It means that to formulate this research, the author will integrate several legal comparisons and principle to get a concrete solution. Consequently, the output in this research is empowerments in establishing a legal framework to protect the strengthen ASEAN human rights mechanism. The results of this study will be submitted to the ASEAN leaders in order to increase the ASEAN's consideration to follow up the problem of human rights enforcement in a serious level.