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Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia | If implemented effectively through a robust Regional Plan of Action, the ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights has the potential to become a transformative document in shaping regional human rights and environmental policies through 2045 and beyond. After official adoption, the drafting of an official Action Plan must follow.

Astro Awani | Malaysia wajar mempertimbangkan penubuhan sebuah Kementerian Hak Asasi Manusia khusus bagi memperkukuh reformasi institusi dan menangani isu baharu berasaskan hak asasi, kata Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Antara Kerajaan ASEAN Mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia (AICHR) yang juga wakil Malaysia ke AICHR, Edmund Bon Tai Soon.

The Phnom Penh Post | The Cambodian Human Rights Committee issued an urgent appeal to UN and ASEAN agencies concerning unlawful barbed wire deployment and related actions by Thai armed forces. One of the appeal letters was sent to Edmund Bon Tai Soon, the Chair of AICHR.

Khmer Times | The Cambodian Human Rights Committee has called on the UN and ASEAN human rights bodies to urgently intervene following what its president described as “unlawful” incursions by the Royal Thai Armed Forces into Cambodian territory. A letter was sent to AICHR Chair Edmund Bon.

AICHR | The 6th Interface Meeting between AICHR and CSOs with a Consultative Relationship with AICHR allowed the sharing of insights, challenges, and good practices in promoting and protecting human rights in ASEAN. Parties also explored ways to enhance cooperation and reaffirmed the importance of sustained and meaningful engagement between AICHR and the CSOs.

Kompas | Bon menjelaskan, semasa kepimpinan Malaysia, AICHR menyasarkan untuk menghasilkan panduan penanganan konflik dan membina perdamaian. Kandungannya berupa langkah-langkah yang perlu diambil apabila berlaku konflik di rantau ini ataupun dalam negeri negara-negara anggota ASEAN.

Kementerian Luar Negeri Malaysia | AICHR akan menganjurkan tiga bengkel di Jakarta untuk membincangkan mekanisme pencegahan konflik dan pembinaan keamanan, kerangka dan pendekatan keamanan antarabangsa, serta perlindungan hak asasi manusia dalam situasi konflik.

ASEAN IPR | AICHR Chair Edmund Bon praised the “Advancing Gender-Responsive Conflict and Crisis Prevention in ASEAN” policy research report, calling it “the answer to a lot of questions”. He added that it contains a lot of really good recommendations, such as establishing a regional conflict and crisis prevention mechanism.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia | AICHR will convene three workshops in Jakarta to discuss mechanisms for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, international peace frameworks and approaches, and protecting human rights of all in conflict situations.

HDFF | Under Malaysia’s chairmanship and leadership of Edmund Bon, AICHR has proposed a roadmap for legally binding human rights conventions by 2030. But the region’s longstanding legal and political culture raises significant questions: Can ASEAN turn Southeast Asia’s ‘soft law’ human rights regime into a rules-based legal order? And if so, at what cost?