Joint Press Release – 5th Interface Meeting between the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institution Forum (SEANF)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 20 November 2025, videoconference - The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institution Forum (SEANF) held their 5th Interface Meeting on 20 November 2025. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Edmund Bon Tai Soon, AICHR Chair and...
Press Release on the 7th ASEAN Human Rights Dialogue and Commemorative Activities of the Adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) and the Phnom Penh Statement on the Adoption of AHRD
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 17-18 November 2025, Jakarta – Building on the momentum of the 6th ASEAN Human Rights Dialogue and the 2023 ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on the ASEAN Human Rights Dialogue at the 43rd ASEAN Summit, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened the 7th ASEAN Human Rights...
AICHR Press Release on Strengthening the AHRD through the ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment (2025) and ASEAN Declaration on Promoting the Right to Development and the Right to Peace Towards Realising Inclusive and Sustainable Development (2025)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 18 November 2025 — The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) today commemorates the anniversary of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) and the Phnom Penh Statement on the Adoption of the AHRD. For more than a decade, AICHR has made significant progress in...
AICHR holds consultation on the Right to Mental Health for Children (AHRD 29(1)) in the Digital Age
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, 3 November 2025 - The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened the Consultation on the Right to Mental Health (AHRD 29(1)) in the Digital Age, with a Focus on the Protection of Children’s Mental Health on 3 November in Brunei...
ASEAN holds Regional Consultation Workshop on Strengthening the Non-Punishment Principle in Trafficking in Persons Cases of Forced Criminality
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] JAKARTA, 31 October 2025 -The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), together with the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC), convened the Regional Consultation Workshop on Strengthening the Non-Punishment Principle in Trafficking in Persons Cases of Forced Criminality on 30–31 October in...
Joint Press Release – The 6th ASEAN-EU Policy Dialogue on Human Rights, 15 October 2025 and Side Event: ASEAN-EU Dialogue on Intensifying Actions and Overcoming Barriers in Implementing Business and Human Rights and Environment in ASEAN and EU, 16-17 October 2025, Kuala Lumpur and Pahang, Malaysia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kuala Lumpur, 15-17 October 2025: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), through the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), and the European Union (EU) conducted the 6th ASEAN-EU Policy Dialogue on Human Rights and related side event. The programme marked another milestone in...
ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) Press Release on Human Rights, Telecommunication Network Fraud and Online Scamming
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 26 SEPTEMBER 2025 - The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) recognises the growing concern over telecommunication network fraud and online scamming that exploit vulnerable individuals, violate fundamental rights, and erode public trust and personal security in digital and financial systems. These crimes have...
AICHR consultation charts path, strategies and recommendations for stronger ASEAN human rights mechanisms to effectively protect human rights
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] PUTRAJAYA, 23 September 2025 – How can ASEAN’s human rights mechanisms be made more effective? This was the primary question in the 70-strong consultation hosted by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) from September 22 to 23 in Putrajaya, Malaysia. “While AICHR is sometimes...
AICHR consultation charts ASEAN’s right-to-development protection path across business, human rights, the environment and climate change
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BANGI, 22 August 2025 – “Climate change is not just an environmental problem, nor is it just a convenient buzzword. It impedes development by undermining livelihoods in places where survival is already fragile. It deepens inequality, fuels internal tensions and conflicts, and forces families to...
AICHR holds 7th Youth Debate on Human Rights
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] PHNOM PENH, 2 September 2025 – The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), organised by AICHR Cambodia in collaboration with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), convened the 7th AICHR Youth Debate on Human Rights, bringing together 21 university students from seven ASEAN Member...