ASEAN Environmental Rights Declaration Needs Transparency

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Activists protest against deforestation by palm oil companies on Indigenous land in Papua, outside the Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 27, 2024. © 2024 Willy Kurniawan/Reuters An Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) working group should show it is genuinely interested in engaging with civil society if it wants to produce an effective environmental rights declaration, as it resumes drafting today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The working group released its first – and so far only – version of the draft declaration in March 2024 and solicited public comments.…

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