Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (2014), para. 22

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Paragraph text: 11. Encourages cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the field of human rights, particularly through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, to enhance the promotion and protection of human rights, including the rights of women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities, as well as the rights of migrant workers in accordance with national laws, regulations and policies of the States members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Rights Declaration and Phnom Penh leaders’ statement on the adoption of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Rights Declaration, and welcomes in this regard the efforts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to finalize an Association of Southeast Asian Nations instrument on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers and to support the implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and Elimination of Violence against Children in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations adopted at the twenty-third Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit, held in Bandar Seri Begawan in October 2013;

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