ASEAN: Setting the Agenda for the Rights of Migrant Workers?

Abstract

This chapter considers whether ASEAN is emerging as a regional leader in setting norms and creating institutions for human rights protection throughout the AsiaPacific, with a focus on the rights of migrant workers. In 2007, the ASEAN Charter was signed, and the Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers was created.2 Article 22 of the Declaration on the Rights of Migrant Workers required ASEAN to develop an ASEAN instrument on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers. While the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (‘AICHR’) has been created pursuant to article 14 of the Charter, 3 progress in developing an instrument on mi..