Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): ASEAN’s failure to back a commission of inquiry into human rights abuses in Burma is a “big blow” to the regional grouping’s reputation, writes Kavi Chongkittavorn, a member of the World Movement for Democracy’s steering committee. The chairman of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) recently refused to meet with the U.N
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