Proposal for Malaysian lawyers to adopt and implement business and human rights principles
Edmund Bon and Jacqueline Albert
March 15, 2023
We hope all lawyers will support the motion on business and human rights.
We hope all lawyers will support the motion on business and human rights.
Slowly but surely, increased regulatory standards for due diligence, transparency in supply chains and ESG-BHR reporting will hit the operations of Malaysian companies doing business overseas.
“We wanted everyone to write, and we would encourage them to write for us. LoyarBurok was the legal platform to write for at that time. It steadily gained popularity, and young people thought it was hip, especially as the name was anti-establishment and tongue-in-cheek.” — Edmund Bon
Can ESG achieve what it is framed to do, which is to sustain us on this planet in a just manner?
Addressing the “How?” of implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights has been challenging for most businesses. The GuideKit provides SMEs with a ready-to-use reference guide that takes a practical approach to human rights compliance, with the ultimate goal of improving lives through respect for human rights.
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.
We hope all lawyers will support the motion on business and human rights.
Slowly but surely, increased regulatory standards for due diligence, transparency in supply chains and ESG-BHR reporting will hit the operations of Malaysian companies doing business overseas.
“We wanted everyone to write, and we would encourage them to write for us. LoyarBurok was the legal platform to write for at that time. It steadily gained popularity, and young people thought it was hip, especially as the name was anti-establishment and tongue-in-cheek.” — Edmund Bon
Can ESG achieve what it is framed to do, which is to sustain us on this planet in a just manner?
Addressing the “How?” of implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights has been challenging for most businesses. The GuideKit provides SMEs with a ready-to-use reference guide that takes a practical approach to human rights compliance, with the ultimate goal of improving lives through respect for human rights.
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.