Background / 背景
Advocacy for Asian Human Rights Court under the framework of ASEAN or APEC / May 9-12 & July 11-14
Regional human rights courts along with human rights instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter the ECHR) were devised to ensure the protection of human rights across Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
Asia, unfortunately, appears to be the sole region in the world that lacks a transnational mechanism to advance the cause of human rights and supervise the violations of such rights. The absence of the Asian human rights system fails to achieve greater international unity and solidarity in addressing equal rights of peoples in the region. The vacuum of the protection of civil liberty, therefore, falls prey to some authoritarian regimes in Asia and renders peoples vulnerable to human rights abuses. In light of this situation, strategies on human rights advocacy need to be established in APEC, one of the most prestigious international organizations in Asia, in order to tackle the unseen human rights abuses in economic cooperation across the Asia-Pacific region. 區域人權法院在全球已有歐洲、美洲與非洲人權法院的設立,以落實人權保障。然而,亞洲卻尚未對於人權侵害案件建立起跨國性的監督機制,造成亞洲人民遭受國家暴力求助無門的窘境。 「亞太經濟合作」(Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,簡稱APEC) 為亞太地區重要的經貿合作組織,在21個經濟體的合作下,帶動區域的經濟成長並促成各項經濟議題跨國之討論。在經濟發展快速的今日,透過國際組織達成共識以此確保企業在營運以及各種商務關係中尊重人權為區域繁榮發展的基石。本工作坊將介紹區域人權法院之機制並討論人權工作在APEC落實之可能性。 |
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The two workshops stress on “studying” the potentiality of founding such a Court.
The first workshop is expected to discuss the possibility of such Court functioning under ASEAN’s human rights framework while the second one under APEC’s.
The first workshop will be held from
May 9 to May 12.
The second one will be held from
July 11 to July 14.
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此工作坊分有兩大方向,分別在ASEAN與APEC探討倡議亞洲人權法院抑或人權監督機制的可能性。
第一場工作坊於5/9-5/12舉行。
第二場工作坊則於7/11-7/14舉行。
The first workshop is expected to discuss the possibility of such Court functioning under ASEAN’s human rights framework while the second one under APEC’s.
The first workshop will be held from
May 9 to May 12.
The second one will be held from
July 11 to July 14.
________________________________________
此工作坊分有兩大方向,分別在ASEAN與APEC探討倡議亞洲人權法院抑或人權監督機制的可能性。
第一場工作坊於5/9-5/12舉行。
第二場工作坊則於7/11-7/14舉行。
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