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Bernama | The AICHR aims to address climate change through the proposed ASEAN Declaration on the Right to Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment. “We will begin examining, documenting, and finding an ASEAN common position on regional human-induced disasters and conflicts through the lens of human rights, accountability, reconciliation, and peace,” chair of the AICHR Edmund Bon said.

Bernama | AICHR menyasarkan untuk menangani hak pembangunan ekonomi, sosial, budaya dan politik serta kaitannya dengan perniagaan dan hak asasi manusia, kesaksamaan gender, perubahan iklim, dan pembangunan mampan. Pengerusi AICHR Edmund Bon berkata kepimpinan Malaysia di ASEAN memberikan peluang besar untuk meningkatkan standard hak asasi manusia di seluruh rantau ini.

Free Malaysia Today | Participants at the Malaysian Human Rights and Environmental Rights Dialogue at the foreign ministry, chaired by Edmund Bon, said Malaysia needs to prove its commitment to human and environmental rights at home before espousing it at ASEAN. Concerns included wrongful deportation, land and indigenous rights, and lack of consultation regarding the seed bill.

The Edge Malaysia | The inaugural Human Rights and Environmental Rights Dialogue convened by Malaysia’s Representative to AICHR in 2025, Edmund Bon, served as a key platform for Malaysia to engage stakeholders and reaffirm its commitment to advancing human and environmental rights across the region.

Malaysiakini | Malaysia’s chair of the AICHR, Edmund Bon, delivered a forceful critique of what he described as a growing “dilution” or willful blindness of international human rights law. “Within our ASEAN backyard and within the remit of what we can do while chairing ASEAN, we cannot support impunity,” he said.

Malaysiakini | Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Antara Kerajaan ASEAN mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia (AICHR) dari Malaysia, Edmund Bon, menyeru pendirian tegas terhadap pelanggaran hak asasi manusia, walaupun ini bermakna melanggar konvensyen dalam ASEAN. Sejak 2009, AICHR belum secara langsung menangani konflik bersenjata. Pendirian tegas Bon menawarkan platform untuk langkah ke hadapan.

AICHR | This timely initiative by AICHR Philippines examined the effects of the global climate emergency on indigenous groups and traditional communities, emphasising how their unique perspectives can contribute to facing this challenge head-on. The plans for the ongoing draft ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, and Sustainable Environment were also considered.