The AICHR: Opening its black box of human rights contestations
Edmund Bon
March 6, 2022
What goes on within the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)?
What goes on within the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)?
These proposed amendments to the ATIPSOM should be seriously considered if the government is committed to transforming the human rights protection landscape for victims and survivors of trafficking, smuggling, and forced labour in our country.
The Bar Council should be transparent on the LexisNexis story.
Action to prevent or avert serious harm to the environment should be taken now and immediately.
The Malaysian National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights cannot fall below what we already have, but must aspire to fulfil what we ought to have.
Conversations with Apichai Sunchindah about people, planet, and profits.
Lord Bobo’s influence in shaping the world.
Any interpretation of human rights must be towards the promotion, and not the destruction, of the same rights.
An interpretative guide regarding Article 28(e) of the AHRD on the right to an adequate standard of living, and an elaboration of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation in the ASEAN context.
We should speak more of water and sanitation as a human right that every person is entitled to claim. It is not to be treated as a commodity to be bought or sold. Neither is it to be given only in the form of charity.
Eight former Representatives to the AICHR call on the Myanmar military, AICHR and ASEAN to protect human rights, consistent with the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and to seek solutions to the crisis in Myanmar.
The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) assesses ASEAN’s response to the atrocities in Rakhine State.
ESG issues are human rights issues.
Our earlier research work.
Only the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia have laws to protect HRDs against SLAPPs.
For governments, companies, investors, lawyers and civil society.
Missed opportunity to apply and expand Article 8(1) in the allocation of resources in parliamentary constituencies.
Socialisation. Institutionalisation. Legitimisation.
Edmund Bon shared with Bursa Malaysia about the legal risks associated with human rights and the status of Malaysia’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Liew Vui Keong, spearheaded many important human rights initiatives, including the development of a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP BHR).
What goes on within the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)?
These proposed amendments to the ATIPSOM should be seriously considered if the government is committed to transforming the human rights protection landscape for victims and survivors of trafficking, smuggling, and forced labour in our country.
The Bar Council should be transparent on the LexisNexis story.
Action to prevent or avert serious harm to the environment should be taken now and immediately.
The Malaysian National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights cannot fall below what we already have, but must aspire to fulfil what we ought to have.
Conversations with Apichai Sunchindah about people, planet, and profits.
Lord Bobo’s influence in shaping the world.
Any interpretation of human rights must be towards the promotion, and not the destruction, of the same rights.
An interpretative guide regarding Article 28(e) of the AHRD on the right to an adequate standard of living, and an elaboration of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation in the ASEAN context.
We should speak more of water and sanitation as a human right that every person is entitled to claim. It is not to be treated as a commodity to be bought or sold. Neither is it to be given only in the form of charity.
Eight former Representatives to the AICHR call on the Myanmar military, AICHR and ASEAN to protect human rights, consistent with the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and to seek solutions to the crisis in Myanmar.
The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) assesses ASEAN’s response to the atrocities in Rakhine State.
ESG issues are human rights issues.
Our earlier research work.
Only the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia have laws to protect HRDs against SLAPPs.
For governments, companies, investors, lawyers and civil society.
Missed opportunity to apply and expand Article 8(1) in the allocation of resources in parliamentary constituencies.
Socialisation. Institutionalisation. Legitimisation.
Edmund Bon shared with Bursa Malaysia about the legal risks associated with human rights and the status of Malaysia’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Liew Vui Keong, spearheaded many important human rights initiatives, including the development of a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP BHR).