ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
The ASEAN Socio Cultural Community is all about realizing the full potential of ASEAN citizens. The ASCC Blueprint 2025 was adopted by the ASEAN Leaders at the 27th ASEAN Summit on 22 November 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Information and Media
Raising ASEAN awareness and facilitating greater information flow on the benefits of ASEAN developments are important priorities of regional cooperation in the information and media sectors.
Social Welfare
The region is home to a diverse population of persons with disabilities, ranging from children with disabilities, women with disabilities, and older persons with disabilities, with varying types of impairments and support requirements.
Culture and Arts
Celebrating the rich cultural diversity and heritage of ASEAN remains an important driver of the culture and arts sector. Culture and arts cooperation serves as an engine for economic growth and sustainable development, a building block for social cohesion and transformation, an asset for regional pride as well as a vehicle for forging closer friendship and understanding.
Gender Rights
Women make up slightly over half the population in ASEAN and significant progress has been made for women and girls in the region especially on access to education, participation in the labour force, increased quality or reproductive health and widened space to express their voices and exercise their agencies. However, numerous challenges impeding the realization of full potentials of women and girls remain.