ASEAN’s Rakhine Crisis: Assessing the regional response to atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

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Dec 3, 2020

Report, October 2020

A new report by APHR assesses the response of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to the ongoing crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

The report found that while ASEAN’s actions have marked a significant departure from the bloc’s usual insistence on non-interference, they have mostly been ineffective, if not deeply problematic, for reasons that include a chronic lack of leadership as well as a reluctance to acknowledge its underlying human rights dimensions.

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