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text-align: center; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Advancing a Peoples\u2019 ASEAN<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Statement of the ASEAN Peoples\u2019 Forum-Fourth ASEAN Civil Society Conference <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">20 \u2013 22 February 2009 <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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The situation is particularly alarming in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Burma<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, with continuing arrests and detention of political prisoners, systematic human rights violations against ethnic minorities, among others, assaults on basic freedoms and rights, especially made stark during the Saffron Revolution and the events surrounding the Nargis cyclone disaster. While human rights violations<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">escalate and remain unresolved, human rights defenders (HRDs) have been targeted and stripped of their freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">In view of the above, we call on ASEAN and its member states to: <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ensure a transparent and inclusive process in the establishment of the ASEAN human rights body (ARHB), by ensuring the widest representation of organisations in the drafting, adoption, and implementation of its terms of reference. The AHRB must be guided by human rights principles of non-discrimination, self-determination, substantive equality, interdependence, inter-relatedness, universality, and indivisibility of human rights standards. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Call for the High Level Panel on the establishment of the AHRB to make public the draft of the Terms of Reference on AHRB to ensure that the process will be transparent and participatory.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The terms of reference of the AHRB should be explicit in its mandate to actively protect, not just promote, human rights in ASEAN.<br \/>\n<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/>\n<!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ratify and implement key ILO Core Labour Standards and key UN human rights conventions, which should be reflected in national laws<s>. <\/s><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Establish the special mechanism of protection for Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), including women HRDs, in the AHRB, and develop national level protection mechanisms integrated in the mandate of the national human rights institutions, in accordance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, including an individual complaint mechanism. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ensure that human rights and human security is guaranteed in all situations especially in conflict situation. Provide dispute prevention and resolution and address intra-state conflicts by having early warning system with the involvement of civil society groups.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Create a regional peacekeeping and peace monitoring team that can be used to monitor armed conflicts in the region. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 3pt\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Secure the release of all <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Burma<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s political prisoners as a condition for the country to proceed forward to national reconciliation and democratisation process. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Not to recognize or accept the legitimacy of the upcoming 2010 election which will entrench military rule in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Burma<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, but urge the Burmese military junta to instead review the 2008 Constitution with the involvement of key stakeholders such as leaders of pro-democracy forces and ethnic groups.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ensure that the root causes of the Rohingya refugee crisis\u2013 the lack of democracy and human rights in Burma \u2013 is addressed by calling for a special emergency meeting of ASEAN governments to find a long lasting solution taking a human rights approach in dealing with refugees staying in ASEAN countries.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Push for the cessation of attacks and exploitative policies against ethnic nationalities, the use of systematic rape as weapon<strong> <\/strong>and the use of child soldiers in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Burma<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>Ratify and\/or harmonise national laws with international human rights conventions and principles, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the ILO Multilateral Framework Instrument for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ensure that relevant provisions are implemented at the national level.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ensure that the rights of all workers and their families including migrant workers, especially women migrant workers and domestic workers regardless of their legal status, marital status, race, ethnicity, age, or religion, are recognised, protected, realised and fulfilled. All workers should also be given decent work and wages, the rights to organise and to form trade unions, collective bargaining, access to safe and affordable health services including reproductive health, occupational safety, social security, and protection from violence.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Establish effective mechanisms for social security and worker protection, especially in times of crisis. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Eliminate child labour and hazardous work in the region.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Promote, implement, and protect the rights of migrant children and children of migrant workers. Access to nationality shall be guaranteed with no regard of their legal status. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Involve civil society organisations and ensure transparency in the preparation of the ASEAN Convention on Combating Human Trafficking; ensure that the definition of human trafficking is in line with the Palermo Protocol; and protect and respect the rights of indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, child of migrant workers, and sex workers. ASEAN must also ensure that the redress, reparation, and reintegration process of trafficked persons are implemented from a rights based approach and urge responsibilities of ASEAN+3 countries pertaining to the protection of trafficked persons. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Support the initiative on the international convention on the rights of peasants.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Exert regional suasion and create mechanisms to solve border conflicts peacefully and without using military force. The rest of the ASEAN members shall be engaged in solving such disputes as well. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">SOCIO-CULTURAL CLUSTER<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Education, health, heritage, culture and disaster management continue to be neglected areas in the region, with serious consequences to quality of life. Free and quality basic education is still not accessible to all children and youth in ASEAN, and a large number of adults are illiterate. Most ASEAN member states do not seriously allocate budget for education that will reach out to poor and marginalised sectors <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\">such as communities in armed conflict areas and emergency areas<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">ASEAN countries have yet to meet the minimum budget allocation for health despite the high prevalence of malnutrition, maternal mortality, and diseases. Disaster Management is done in an ad hoc way, focusing only on restoring livelihood but not addressing attendant problems such as land disputes and human rights violations, often rendering response ineffective, such as in the case of major disasters such as the Cyclone Nargis.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">We call on ASEAN and its member states to:<br \/>\n<span>\u00a0<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Draw up a long-term plan for disaster management, by involving local communities in programmes and creating a volunteer network that could be mobilised when there is an emergency. The disaster management plan should lead to a long-term rehabilitation and sustainable development for the community.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Humanitarian efforts should also be transparent and accountable. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ensure that all the six goals of Education For All (EFA) are met and that there are national and regional plans in ensuring education for all with affirmative action for marginalized groups. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\">Education should consist of formal, non-formal, and alternative education. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\">ecure EFA by allocating 6% of Gross National Product and 20% of national budgets for basic education. Three percent of national budget should go to adult education.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>ASEAN should work for multilateral and\/or bilateral assistance for education.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 3pt\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\">Implement education policies toward genuine multiculturalism in education and ensure the use of appropriate languages and dialects as part of quality learning and respect for diverse culture and identity in <st1:place w:st=\"on\">South East  Asia<\/st1:place>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Allocate at least 5% of national budget of each country to ensure safe, affordable and accessible quality health care service for the people. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Promote gender sensitivity and equality in all its policy and processes. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>Promote ASEAN youth exchange for cultural and historical understanding for solidarity. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Provide sufficient budget for youth empowerment including promoting and supporting sustainable entrepreneurship for youths. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Protect and preserve the ASEAN natural and ancient heritages be protected and preserved. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Promote and support peoples\u2019 media and establish ASEAN\u2019s own media. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">ECONOMIC CLUSTER<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Large-scale development projects, such as mining, dams, ASEAN power grid, roads and industrial plantation, currently key drivers of the ASEAN economy, have led to environmental degradation and resulted in negative impacts on culture and livelihoods of peoples and communities in the region. Such a development thrust has further exacerbated inequality and food insecurity in the region, where many, especially the poor, are suffering from rising food prices, severe hunger, rising unemployment and falling incomes, and lack of access and control over land, water, productive resources, genetic resources, as well as social protection.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The climate crisis further highlights the vulnerability of the region, where the impacts of climate change have become unmistakable and pervasive, yet there is still no plan to reverse the development path especially for industrial and energy development, and environmental standards or common values at the national and regional levels are still lacking to address this urgent and serious situation.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">We call on ASEAN and its member states to:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Reverse the current unsustainable development trajectory by upholding the rights-based approach to development and providing communities the rights to access and manage natural resources based on participation and local knowledge, balancing pro-poor economic policies with ecological sustainability,<span>\u00a0 <\/span>ensuring that economic integration in the ASEAN region is built on respect for human rights and peoples\u2019 welfare, and promoting community-based, people-centred and small-holder economic initiatives.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Guarantee the protection of farmers and all workers&#8211; including formal, informal and migrant workers&#8211; to establish an egalitarian market system, secure livelihoods and decent works<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Produce a strategic policy to eradicate structural poverty in every level, and create mechanisms to protect and secure the welfare of all peoples, especially in times of crisis<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Compel large corporations including transnational corporations, to follow international human rights and environmental standards and conventions. Make them accountable for violations of applicable national laws and international conventions and agreements, including any their existing contractual arrangements with governments and\/or communities.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 3pt\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Formulate, as a matter of urgency and in consultation with civil society organizations, a national climate change action plan that would feed into an ASEAN climate change action plan, including both mitigation and adaptation measures, based on justice and development rights, with emphasis on adaptation plans and disaster risk reduction. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent1\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Work closely with civil society organisations to develop alternative energy as a strategy. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Reject nuclear power and show leadership in actively promoting sustainable, renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, energy conservation, and decentralised energy systems and appropriate technologies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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Establish a common agricultural development fund that will help carry out such agricultural policy and action plan.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Promote food sovereignty through genuine agrarian reform and equitable access and distribution of land and resources as mandated by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nation International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Promote and implement people-oriented water resource management. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Regulate transnational corporations in agriculture and protect the land of smallholder farmers from agribusiness expansion.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Set-up mechanisms banning any form of speculation on food commodities and impose a moratorium on agro-fuels. Re-orient the ASEAN Food Reserves away from a trade focus and towards the regional stabilisation of supply and prices.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Re-orient the current export oriented model of development.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Make trade policy-making and negotiations transparent and accessible by providing space for participation by civil society and social movements like workers organisations. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt\" align=\"left\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>\u00b7<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Enhance civil society contributions to development by providing an enabling environment; including regular consultations between various sectors across the region, to ensure their participation in th<strong>e<\/strong> design, implementation and monitoring of aid modalities, development programs and strategies. Formulate an Official Development Assistance (ODA) system for aid coming into the ASEAN region. 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font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Require business sectors to balance all shares and benefits for the local peoples\u2019 livelihood by ensuring payment for environment services, recognising that local people are the shareholders for those projects and not just recipients of compensation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Towards a Peoples\u2019 ASEAN<span>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">OUR COMMITMENTS<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"margin-left: 21.3pt; text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond\" lang=\"EN-GB\">We, the participants in this gathering, are committed to work together to build a genuine \u201cpeople-centred ASEAN\u201d, where all policies are decided by the people, so that an ASEAN community based on human rights, human dignity, participation and social dialogue, social and economic justice, cultural and ecological diversity, environmentally sustainable development, and gender equality can be established <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ColorfulList-Accent11\" style=\"text-indent: 0in\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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