In celebration of the International Human Rights Day and with the aim to increase the understanding of human rights in the work place, the ASEAN Secretariat, United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Southeast Asia Regional Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia-Pacific Regional Center and facilitated by the Ateneo Human Rights Center (AHRC) all joined hands to organize a five-day interactive workshop in Jakarta. The workshop looked at how the staff of ASEAN Secretariat implemented the human rights norms and values in the work place and in their daily lives. The workshop also discussed about human rights regional mechanisms and some thematic issues; women and children rights, human trafficking and migration. Key references included the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Declaration on the Right to Development. Several questions were raised about the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) which is currently being drafted.
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