Dina Indrasafitri - The Jakarta Post – 03 may 2011
ASEAN's economic and business ambitions may pose a threat to human rights and the environment, critics said Tuesday.
Sammy Gamboa, a Programme Officer from the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), said that the rapid development of ASEAN countries often violated housing rights in the country member states, especially in Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, the Philippines and Indonesia.
He was talking at a gathering of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN people's forum2011 in Jakarta on Tuesday.
"Housing rights violations in Southeast Asia often occur as a result of a combination of government economic and development policies, widespread poverty, marginalization, and exclusion of the majority of the impoverished regions, and their lack of access to effective remedies," COHRE said in a statement.
COHRE's Women Housing Right Officer Jessica Umanos Soto said that in Burma alone there were currently around 1 million internal refugees.
Premrudee Daroung from the Foundation for Ecological Recovery said that ASEAN needed to add the environment as a strategic pillar in addition to its existing three – economy, political security and socio-cultural.
She said so far the matter of the environmental had been put under socio-cultural, which had caused the be treated as less important than it should.
The statement to propose a fourth pillar, which had already been endorsed by around 40 organizations as of Sept last year, said that ASEAN's "current economic expansion propels the implementation of large-scale development projects, such as mines, dams, nuclear power plants, and industrial plantations that have led to environmental degradation..."
Sammy Gamboa, a Programme Officer from the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), said that the rapid development of ASEAN countries often violated housing rights in the country member states, especially in Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, the Philippines and Indonesia.
He was talking at a gathering of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN people's forum
"Housing rights violations in Southeast Asia often occur as a result of a combination of government economic and development policies, widespread poverty, marginalization, and exclusion of the majority of the impoverished regions, and their lack of access to effective remedies," COHRE said in a statement.
COHRE's Women Housing Right Officer Jessica Umanos Soto said that in Burma alone there were currently around 1 million internal refugees.
Premrudee Daroung from the Foundation for Ecological Recovery said that ASEAN needed to add the environment as a strategic pillar in addition to its existing three – economy, political security and socio-cultural.
She said so far the matter of the environmental had been put under socio-cultural, which had caused the be treated as less important than it should.
The statement to propose a fourth pillar, which had already been endorsed by around 40 organizations as of Sept last year, said that ASEAN's "current economic expansion propels the implementation of large-scale development projects, such as mines, dams, nuclear power plants, and industrial plantations that have led to environmental degradation..."
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