The 10-member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- meeting at their summit in Hanoi, Vietnam -- inaugurated a commission for the rights of women and children today (April 7, 2010), according to the Earth Times website.
Summit host Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said women and children were "uniquely vulnerable to the adverse impacts of the development process."
The ASEAN Commission on Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children is the first regional body in South-East Asia to take a rights-based approach to women's and children's welfare in the region.
This approach looks at human welfare with reference to positive rights laid out in international treaties, rather than simply as a part of desirable development goals.
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