Article: VOA NEWS: ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS CHARTER TO INCLUDE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Nancy-Amelia Collins

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed during their annual meeting in Manila to create a human rights body in the draft of ASEAN's first ever charter. VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins is in the Philippine capital and brings us this report.

The agreement moves the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, closer to having its first charter.

The deal reached Monday by the foreign ministers of the 10 ASEAN members overcame fierce objections from Burma's military government.

Burma, which has long been condemned by many governments, including the European Union and the ...

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