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Rights. The Seminar was successfully held from 3 to 4 November in
Singapore. The Seminar explored the role of governments, businesses,
trade unions and CSOs in promoting CSR, as well as possible elements
of a regional strategy on CSR and Human Rights in ASEAN. Such a
regional strategy would support the fulfilment of the aspirations of the
ASEAN Community Vision 2025, which calls for the building upon and
deepening of the integration process to realise a rules-based, peopleoriented, people-centred ASEAN Community.
ii)
6th Regional Meeting on Human Rights and Agribusiness in South East
Asia
The Regional Meeting which was held from 3-4 November in Kota
Kinabalu, Sabah was a series of events organised by Forest Peoples
Programme (FPP) in collaboration with the South East Asia National
Human Rights Institutions Forum over the last five years, aimed at
discussing and developing frameworks which can ensure that
human rights obligations are binding on transnational and national
agribusiness companies. For this year, the Regional Meeting was
organised in collaboration with FPP, the Human Rights Commission of
Malaysia and Jaringan Orang Asal Semalaya (JOAS).
Some of the participants of the 6th Regional Meeting on Human Rights and Agribusiness in South
East Asia which was held from 3-4 November in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
The Regional Meeting also examined the RSPO’s Jurisdictional
Approach to palm oil certification, which the state of Sabah is
pioneering. This innovative and promising approach will apply the
RSPO standard to all producers in the state. The aim is to make sure
that by 2025 all palm oil produced in Sabah will be sustainable and
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