(22 -5-2025, Jakarta )
The Myanmar Delegation led by H.E. U Nyunt Swe, Representative of Myanmar to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) attended the 41st Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights held from 12 to 16 May 2025 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The 41stAICHR Meeting was chaired by H.E. Edmund Bon Tai Soon, Representative of Malaysia to AICHR, and was attended by Representatives/Alternate Representatives of AICHR, AICHR Assistants and representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat. Timor-Leste Representative also attended the Meeting as an observer.
The Meeting discussed on progress of the implementation of AICHR’s priority programmes and activities, preparations for the Interface of AICHR Representatives with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers at the 58th AMM, including the draft AICHR FYWP 2026-2030, the draft 2026 Priority Programmes/Activities of AICHR, Statement of the AICHR Chair to the 58th AMM, and the Annual Report of AICHR 2025.
The Meeting agreed on the proposed ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment for submission to the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM).
During the 41st AICHR Meeting, AICHR held its 16th annual interface meeting with the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR). In strengthening cross-sectoral collaboration and stakeholder engagement, AICHR also met with the ASEAN University Network on Human Rights Education (AUN-HRE), the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism (WG-AHRM), the Child Rights Coalition Asia (CRC Asia), with the participation of representatives of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), and 24 children and youths.
Then, AICHR also held its 8th meetings with Australia and the European Union, its 4th meetings with Japan and Switzerland, and its first meetings with Norway and the Republic of Korea respectively and discussed potential areas of collaboration and recent human rights developments.
