Ms. Theary Seng speaking at 4th International Conference on International Relations and Development

The conference’s chair, Dr. Sriprapha Petcharamesree (front row, left) listening to keynote address by Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn.

Sitting alongside me (very left of this photo) is a Rohingya activist who founded an NGO Equal Harmony Together with the ever so cool Veronica Pedrosa (who is in this crowd somewhere giving support to her colleague Htike Htike during a powerful, informative panel presentation that started off the conference after the keynote address.

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ICIRD 2015 theme "Traversing the next ASEAN: Challenges and Prospects in Development, Democratization, Human Rights and Peace"aims to examine a number of prospects, impacts and challenges that persist in the region. These include uneven economic development and governance across the region, political and social inequality, democratic deficits, unresolved ethnic conflicts, environmental degradation, the enclosure of a range of natural resources, impacts from large-scale development projects, and human rights violations. To traverse these issues, ASEAN will need to put effort towards enlarging freedoms, deepening democratic processes, strengthening political accountability, promoting international cooperation, protecting human rights, and ensuring social and environmental justice.