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Briefing paper

Rights at the Core: Towards a rights-respecting digital ecosystem in ASEAN

26/01/2026

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72 pages long

Languages: English

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ASEAN is setting ambitious goals to advance and lead in the digital age. The forthcoming ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2030, expected in early 2026, will steer regional digital development for the next five years. As ASEAN enters this new phase, it is crucial that its strategies align with a rights‑based approach. In 2025, Access Now, EngageMedia, […]

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Case study

Towards a Coherent Policy Framework on Business and Human Rights: Challenges, gains, and lessons learned

26/06/2018

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2 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2015, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launched a plan for economic integration across the region. However, in the absence of a coherent policy framework to regulate and govern private sector investment, this economic integration model risks exacerbating resource grabbing, excessively benefiting corporate interests, and adding to Asia’s rising inequalities. This case study […]

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Case study

Community Stories of Resilience Building in ASEAN: Strengthening community resilience through peer-to-peer learning

11/12/2017

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162 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is vulnerable to more frequent and severe disasters due to the rapid rise of natural hazards, extreme weather events, and the impacts of climate change. ASEAN’s Declaration on Institutionalizing the Resilience of ASEAN and its Communities and Peoples to Disasters and Climate Change recognizes this, and its vision of resilience sets out to achieve […]

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Briefing paper

A Different Route: Reimagining the idea of prosperity in Asia

12/11/2015

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28 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Yet millions of people remain poor, while a handful gets richer and richer. Asia needs a development model that leaves no one behind: not the workers and farmers, who act as the driving force behind Asia’s growth – and certainly not the women, who […]

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Briefing paper

Harmless Harvest: How sustainable agriculture can help ASEAN countries adapt to a changing climate

25/05/2015

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22 pages long

Languages: English

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A better way of growing food is the best bet against climate change for Southeast Asia’s small-scale food producers. Sustainable agriculture – agriculture that can meet the needs of present and future generations, ensures the efficient production of safe, high-quality agricultural products in a way that protects the natural environment, and improves on the economic […]

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Rights at the Core: Towards a rights-respecting digital ecosystem in ASEAN

Towards a Coherent Policy Framework on Business and Human Rights: Challenges, gains, and lessons learned

Community Stories of Resilience Building in ASEAN: Strengthening community resilience through peer-to-peer learning

A Different Route: Reimagining the idea of prosperity in Asia

Harmless Harvest: How sustainable agriculture can help ASEAN countries adapt to a changing climate