WE, 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 (Lao PDR), 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, met at the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta on 5 September 2023;

RECALLING our commitments to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1995), the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015), the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (2012), the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Education for Out-of- School Children and Youth (2016), the ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on Ending All Forms of Malnutrition (2017), the ASEAN Declaration on Rights of Children in the Context of Migration (2019), the Declaration on the Protection of Children from All Forms of Exploitation and Abuse in ASEAN (2019), the ASEAN Roadmap on the Elimination of All Forms of Child Labour (2020), and the Declaration on the Elimination of Bullying in ASEAN (2021), which promote, respect and protect the rights of the child;