The December 2019 (Volume 98) issue of the FOCUS Asia-Pacific newsletter has the following contents:

ACHR and Housing Rights in Asia

This article discusses the development of a regional non-governmental organization as its responds to the situation of the informal settlers in Asia.

- Somsook Boonyabancha, Thomas Kerr and Brenda Pérez-Castro

AICHR: Ten Years of Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in ASEAN

This is a review of the first ten years of existence of an international human rights mechanism in Southeast Asia.

- Yuyun Wahyuningrum

Nepalese Children in Japan: Facing a Great Opportunity or an Uncertain Future?

This is a discussion on the situation of Nepalese children in Japan whose future in the country depends to a large extent on their Japanese education.

- Dinesh Prasad Joshi Ratala

Time to act: Governments as catalysts for business respect for human rights

This article consist of remarks by Asako Okai, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Crisis Bureau, at the 2019 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights held in Geneva in November 2019 and a short introduction of UNDP's Business and Human Rights (B+HR) Asian regional program.

- UNDP

The whole file of the newsletter as well as individual files of the articles are now available online (https://www.hurights.or.jp/archives/focus/section1/2019/12/).