"One Vision, One Identity, One Community"

Hey everyone welcome to my sixth post! Some of you may or may not have noticed that I changed the look of my blog. I thought it would fit my theme pretty well. Anyways that's not the point, let's get back to this blog post. 

I will be talking about "AICHR" which stands for "ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights" Before you continue and think: "Wynonna doesn't even know how to spell ASIAN right?" "ASEAN" is actually another acronym. (Who puts an acronym in an acronym?) "ASEAN" stands for "Association of Southeast Asian Nations". Let me explain to you these two different groups and how they're tied/related.

This is the ASEAN emblem/logo.

ASEAN is an organisation of 10 Southeast Asian countries. It was formed by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand on August 8th 1967. Later on

other countries have been added including, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and Vietnam. As written in the ASEAN Declaration, the purposes of ASEAN are:

• "To accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in the region.
• To promote regional peace and stability
• To promote collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest.
• To provide assistance to each other in the form of training and research facilities.
• To collaborate for the better utilization of agriculture and industry to raise the living standards of the people.
• To promote Southeast Asian studies.
• To maintain close, beneficial co-operation with existing international organisations with similar aims and purposes"

This is the ASEAN flag.

Next is AICHR, which first started in October 2009. They are a group formed by ASEAN to focus on human rights. They meet up at least twice every year.  Their job is to "promote and protect human rights and regional co-operation on human in the member states of Brunei, Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR (People's Democratic Republic), Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. 

Special Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
with their signature crossed hand shake.

Since I've been talking negatively about human rights and freedom in Asia, I felt like I needed to balance things out. There are organisations who are trying to protect human rights, like this one. Countries in Asia are started to understand human rights and freedom, which is a good sign. Education and understanding, to me, are the keys to change for the better. Once someone understands the problem it can be solved and prevented. This organisation is just the start!  

Oh! I seemed to have forgot to mention the title. Some of you are probably thinking that I just put something inspirational as a title just because. That is FALSE! Fun fact: the title is actually ASEAN's motto.

遲啲見!
(See you later!) 

Sources: 
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN_Intergovernmental_Commission_on_Human_Rights
2. http://aichr.org/about/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations#Purpose
4. http://asean.org/asean/about-asean/