AICHR TO CONVENE 41ST MEETING IN JAKARTA TO ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS COOPERATION AND PROTECTION IN LINE WITH ASEAN’S COMMUNITY VISION 12–16 MAY 2025

AICHR TO CONVENE 41ST MEETING IN JAKARTA TO ADVANCE HUMAN

RIGHTS COOPERATION AND PROTECTION IN LINE WITH ASEAN'S

COMMUNITY VISION

12-16 MAY 2025

The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will hold its 41st Meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, from 12 to 16 May 2025. Chaired by the Representative of Malaysia to AICHR and the Commission's 2025 Chair Dato' Edmund Bon Tai Soon, the meeting will bring together ten AICHR Representatives/Alternate Representatives, Timor-Leste's Representative (as an Observer), and officials from the ASEAN Secretariat.

The meeting will discuss recent human rights developments in ASEAN and the proposed ASEAN Declarations on the Rights to Development, Peace, and a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment. It will also deliberate on the AICHR Five-Year Work Plan (FYWP) for 2026 to 2030 and its Priority Programmes for the next year.

In preparation for the 15th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) interface with AICHR scheduled for July 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, AICHR will also finalise its 2025 Annual Report to brief the AMM on its progress, challenges and future direction.

Further, AICHR will hold meetings with the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR), Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism (WGAHRM), Child Rights Coalition Asia (including children and ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) representatives), ASEAN University Network-Human Rights Education (AUN-HRE), and dialogue partners Australia, Norway, Japan, the European Union, Switzerland, and the Republic of Korea.

Malaysia's leadership of this meeting underscores its commitment to advancing human rights promotion and protection through regional dialogue and exploring new avenues for collaboration. The meeting will strengthen ASEAN-wide cooperation on human rights, bringing the region closer to the goals enshrined in the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration 2012 and ASEAN's community vision.

PUTRAJAYA

12 May 2025