Human Rights And International Law - 1078 Words

In order to understand the ASEAN Political and Economic Integration, it is crucial to understand the issues that happened surround ASEAN, particularly to Human Rights and International law issues. With regards to human right issues, the question is whether the ASEAN way is still working or ASEAN should start moving and interfere when the issue involves Human Right. This chapter will study how ASEAN state members solve problems when in relations to Human Rights and International law. It will discuss whether ASEAN can provide solutions on these problems or active passively on these issues. This chapter argues that ASEAN failed to provide any solution to the international law conflicts as well as human rights issues that happens in the†¦show more content†¦Most of these cases are usually handled by International Arbitration or International Court. ASEAN rarely gets involved due to their non-involvement principles. Many had seen this as a failure within the region and had even l abelled ASEAN as toothless and lacking of clear mandate (Gil, 2014). In this article, it will use the case of Singapore and Malaysia in studying how ASEAN solve international law issues mainly, related to borders and boundaries among ASEAN state members. Singapore and Malaysia had always have a unique relations among them. This is due to factors such as geography, history, politics, ideology, economy, culture and ethnicity as well as interdependence with each other with regards to economy and security (Omar, n.d). However, due to these unique relations conflicts and tenses sometimes occurs between the two countries. One of the conflicts that occurs between the two countries is the conflicts with regards to Pedra Branca (previously known as Batu Puteh). It is an island that is located 8 miles from the shore of Malaysia and 28miles of the shore of Singapore (Omar, n.d). Malaysia had first published a map in 1974 after their territorial sea was extended to 12n.m, it shows that the island was a part of Singapore territories (Trost, 1993:28). However, Trost noted that the disputes began in 1979 when Malaysia had drawn a map that