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From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

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The Pacific Review, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 365 - 394

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09512748.2018.1476402

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Whether it is the persecution of the Rohingya, the disappearance of human rights activists, especially in Vietnam and Cambodia, the general limiting of freedom of speech across the region, including in two of the more liberal-minded states (Thailand, Philippines), or the resumption of the arbitrary...

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Published in: The Pacific Review
ISSN: 0951-2748 1470-1332
Published: Taylor and Francis 2019
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