id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
aseas-2477	Bothe, Christian	Institutionalizing Human Rights in South-East Asia: The birth of ASEAN’s Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights - An Interview with Param Cumaraswamy	2009	8	.pdf	application/pdf	2758	138	64	Although the preceded ASEAN Charter, which in its Art.1 specifically identifies “respect for and protection of human rights” as one of its core purposes and “respect for fundamental freedoms, the promotion and protection of human rights, and the promotion and protection of social justice” as a core principle under Art.2, the AICHR has not given powers to monitor, investigate or report on human rights records, it rather has a mandate to “promote” than to protect human rights. Cumaraswamy: If we go back in history and if you look at the regions in the world, Asia is the only region which has no regional mechanism of human rights.	cache/aseas-2477.pdf	txt/aseas-2477.txt