WE, the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely: Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on the occasion of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits chaired by the Lao People’s Democratic Republic;

UPHOLDING the commitment of ASEAN to promote universal human rights including those of children and to end all forms of violence against children as enshrined in the general principles of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (2012), the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Elimination of Violence Against Children in ASEAN (2013), the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Education for Out-of-School Children and Youth (2016), the Declaration on the Protection of Children from all Forms of Online Exploitation and Abuse in ASEAN (2019), the ASEAN Declaration on the Rights of Children in the Context of Migration (2019), and the Bandar Seri Begawan Declaration on the Importance of the Family for Community Development and Nation-Building (2021);

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