KUALA LUMPUR: Human rights violations continue to occur almost on a daily basis in Malaysia, said the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) chairman Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman. He said this in his keynote address at the Malaysian Human Rights Day on 9th September 2009
“If you vote the right people into Parliament, they will amend the law to give us teeth to bite with,” he said in response to a question from the floor.
Abu Talib also mentioned that Suhakam’s probe into complaints of abuses such as police inaction, excessive force, selective prosecution, death in custody, delays in citizenship applications and denial of rights to ancestral land found that most of these were legitimate.
“To many government employees, it would appear that the Universal Declaration (of Human Rights) is very remote from their everyday working lives,” he said.
Read the Keynote Paper HERE.
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