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48 Ateneo L.J. 905 (2003-2004)
Proposing an ASEAN Human Rights Commission: A Critical Analysis

handle is hein.journals/ateno48 and id is 881 raw text is: Proposing an ASEAN Human Rights Commission: A Critical Analysis* Sarah Lou Y. Arriola I. INTRODUCTION . ...................................... 906 II. ASIAN VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS ............. ........912 A. The Asian Values Debate B. Asian Values, Universality of Human Rights and the Bangkok Declarations C. ASEAN and the ASEAN Way IIL. TOWARDS AN ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISM.... ..... 923 A. Existing Regional Mechanisms: Lessons for ASEAN B. Why a Sub-Regional Mechanism for Southeast Asia? C. Options for an Appropriate Human Rights Mechanism IV. SCRUTINIZING THE PROPOSED ASEA HUMAN RIGHTS CoM MISSIoN...... .................................. 938 A. Underlying Principles and Elements B. Compisidon This article was submitted as a dissertation requirement of the L.L.M. in International Human Rights Law programme of University of Essex, United Kingdom where the author received a mark of distinction. The author wishes to thank her supervisor United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Professor Paul Hunt as well as the Secretariat of the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism particularly Professor Carlos P. Medina for the invaluable guidance that they have provided. This intellectual discourse would not have been possible if not for the indispensable support of the author's parents, Antonio and Lourdes Arriola as well as the Foreign Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom and the British Council. AB. '93; J.D. '98; LL.M. (International Human Rights Law) '03, University of Essex. The author has served as Program Manager of the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism as well as Administrative Manager of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA) Human Rights Standing Committee from 1999-2002. She became an intern to Paul Hunt, UN Specral Rapporteur on the Right to Health, in 2003. She joined the Faculty of Law of the Ateneo de Manila in June zoo and has been teaching Legal Writing, Legal Research, Children's Rights Law, and Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflicts since then. She is currently the Director for Special Projects of the Ateneo Human Rights Center and the President of the Board of Directors, Center for the Promotion, Advocacy, and Protection of Children's Rights (Lunduyan para so Pagpapalaganap, Pagtataguyod at Pagtatanggol ng Karapatang Pambata). She also serves as the head coach of the Ateneo Team for the Jean Pictet International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition 2004. Cite as 48 ATENeo L.J. 905 (2004). Digitized from Best Copy Available

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