Edmund Bon

The spiral model, scope conditions, and contestation in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

Alan Collins and Edmund Bon January 20, 2023

The authors utilise the mechanisms and scope conditions in the revised Spiral Model to assess the opportunities and challenges that aid and frustrate the AICHR Representatives’ attempts to fulfil AICHR’s mandate to promote and protect human rights. The authors identify reasons for cautious optimism that some Representatives are making headway in making AICHR fit-for-purpose.

Death penalty and the right to a fair trial: Challenges faced by criminal defence lawyers

Edmund Bon November 30, 2022

Substantive reforms to introduce more effective legal measures for our criminal justice system is sorely needed. The right to a fair trial demands it. The Bar Council should spearhead the reform advocacy.

Making corporate respect for human rights a reality: GuideKit on BHR compliance regarding the environment and labour

Edmund Bon and Jacqueline Albert August 20, 2022

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.

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)?

Nine ATIPSOM amendments: Protecting victims of human trafficking and forced labour better

Edmund Bon, Chin Yuen Xin and Jacqueline Albert September 30, 2021

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.

Why (I think) members voted against the five legal research product motions at the Malaysian Bar EGM

Edmund Bon September 29, 2021

The Bar Council should be transparent on the LexisNexis story.

How do free trade agreements impact businesses? Aligning priorities and approaches of Malaysian companies with the human right to a clean and healthy environment

Edmund Bon and Jacqueline Albert September 24, 2021

Action to prevent or avert serious harm to the environment should be taken now and immediately.

Ensure that the NAPBHR process is transparent and inclusive

Edmund Bon and Jacqueline Albert September 21, 2021

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.

NOTES FROM HOME: Re-imagining Southeast Asia post-COVID

Edmund Bon and Lee Yee Woei September 17, 2021

Conversations with Apichai Sunchindah about people, planet, and profits.

That damned Wonder Typewriting Monkey trying to change people’s lives

Edmund Bon July 1, 2021

Lord Bobo’s influence in shaping the world.

[Proposed] Consultation Position Paper Regarding Article 28(e) of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration 2012 (AHRD)

Edmund Bon June 10, 2021

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.

Interpreting Articles 6, 7 & 8 of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration 2012

Edmund Bon June 4, 2021

Any interpretation of human rights must be towards the promotion, and not the destruction, of the same rights.

Realising SDG6 and the right to water and sanitation in Malaysia

Edmund Bon April 5, 2021

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.

Open statement regarding the coup, arbitrary arrests and detentions by the military in Myanmar

Edmund Bon February 15, 2021

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.