Tag: #ASEANEnvironmentalRights

On October 28, 2025, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted the ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment. The four-page document cites existing ASEAN instruments on the environment and reiterates the region’s commitment to uphold environmental rights.

On the occasion of the 46th ASEAN Summit on 26-27 May 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, environmental advocates and environmental human rights defenders call for the adoption of a robust and comprehensive ASEAN environmental rights (AER) declaration. 

As we step into 2025, we celebrate our collective efforts as a network together with fellow environmental defenders and express our gratitude. We are in solidarity with the different struggles across the region for environmental rights, continuing our creative, hopeful, and courageous defense of lands, waters, and life.

Here’s why and how to advocate for a genuine regional instrument on environmental rights that protects all of us. #ASEANEnvironmentalRights

This video is the second out of three in our #ASEANEnvironmentalRights explainer series.

As we move past the mid-year mark, 2024 has proven to be a tough year for environmental human rights defenders across the Asia-Pacific. Despite these challenges, our collection action and commitment remain strong. In this edition, you’ll find the latest news, campaign achievements, engagements, and resources.

The Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders denounces the results of the climate conference for both its outcomes, which fall short of the needs of developing countries most affected by the climate crisis, and its processes, which have limited space for civil society engagement. Environmental human rights defenders, along with civil society from developing countries, deserve a seat at the table to ensure that world leaders deliver justice to the historical polluters responsible for the climate crisis. It is high time that the climate conference becomes a space for the people and not for fossil fuel lobbyists and corporations that peddle false solutions.

Learn more about the ongoing process of the first-ever regional instrument on environmental rights in Southeast Asia through the first video of the #ASEANEnvironmentalRights series.