ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration affirms the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated human rights avowed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It categorizes the right into civil and political, and economic, social and cultural rights. Civil and political rights encompass the right to life, personal liberty and security, protection against torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, asylum, as well as freedom from arbitrary deprivation of property, nationality, marriage and founding a family, privacy, as well as freedom of peaceful assembly, from servitude or slavery, of movement and residence. Economic, social and cultural rights cover the rights to work in just, decent and favorable conditions, adequate standard of living, enjoy the highest standard of physical, mental and reproductive health, social security and education, and to freely take part in cultural life. It particularly highlights the right to development as an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and the peoples of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are entitled to participate in, contribute to, enjoy and benefit equitably and sustainably from economic, social-cultural and political development.