ASEAN-SINGAPORE-POLITICS-NGO'S

Opposition Singapore Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan (R) speaks at a press conference in Singapore 22 July 1999 while opposition Workers' Party leader J. B. Jeyaretnam listens on. Chee and Jeyaretnam hosted the press conference to criticize the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting being held in Singapore this weekend and what they feel as ASEAN's inaction over human rights issues in the region. The group claimed that it was important for ASEAN to realise that economic recovery was interlinked with human rights issues. AFP PHOTO/Roslan RAHMAN (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)