Asean commission's five-year human rights protection plan in final stages of completion

KUALA LUMPUR: The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) is in the final stages of drafting its Five-Year Work Plan (2026-2030), aimed at strengthening the protection and promotion of human rights across South-East Asia amid evolving regional and global challenges.

Chair of AICHR and Malaysia’s Representative to AICHR, Edmund Bon Tai Soon (pic), said the new work plan, once finalised, would serve as a strategic framework guiding AICHR’s activities over the next five years, in line with the Asean Community Vision 2045 and various strategic plans of action under the Asean framework.