ASEAN HEADLINE-ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS MEET: MYANMAR: Military junta set to represent Myanmar at ASEAN human rights meetings – again
A Myanmar junta representative attends the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting in Vientiane, Lao PDR, in June (ASEAN)
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While the junta continues to commit massive human rights atrocities, one of its senior bureaucrats is invited to attend high-level human rights summit in Laos
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Despite the Myanmar junta’s ongoing military attacks and other grave human rights violations, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) looks set to include regime officials in human rights meetings to be held during a major gathering of the bloc’s members and partners in Vientiane this week.
The website of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) states that it has “overall responsibility for the promotion and protection of human rights in ASEAN.”
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Its meetings involve government-appointed representatives on human rights from each ASEAN member state.
According to reports in junta-controlled media sources, regime officials have represented Myanmar at these meetings since 2022 and in related ASEAN meetings on human rights since 2021.
No representatives of Myanmar’s publicly mandated. . .
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