Edmund Bon
The Representative of Malaysia to the AICHR (2024 - 2026)
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Edmund Bon was recently re-appointed by the Government of Malaysia as the Representative of Malaysia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) for the term of 2024-2026. He served his first term as the Representative of Malaysia from 2016 to 2018. Edmund is also a practising lawyer in Malaysia for more than 25 years. He co-founded AmerBON, Advocates and two non-profit organizations, Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism & Human Rights (MCCHR) and Collective of Applied Law & Legal Realism (CALR). 

Edmund is regularly invited to speak at local and international conferences on constitutional and human rights law. He has conducted more than 900 hours of training for young lawyers and activists on similar topics. Edmund’s articles and papers have been published in law journals and by news media. Edmund’s latest published work is in the Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia, entitled “Citizenship, Immigration, National Security and the Police”. He read law at University College London, holds Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, and a doctoral candidate for Human Rights from Mahidol University.