HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTER MALAYSIA

Azly Rahman | Sep 29, 08
The General Assembly proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for [...]

This paper was presented at the Forum on ISA – National Security Law organised by Suaram in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 25. On the 14th anniversary of Operation Lalang which saw the arrest of 107 opposition leaders, religious, social, academicians and environmental activists and the shutdown of The Star, Sin Chew Jit Poh and the [...]

Abdul Malek Hussin, bekas tahanan ISA (Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri), tidak akan dapat melupakan buat selama-lamanya peristiwa buruk yang telah berlaku ke atas dirinya sembilan tahun yang lalu. Abdul Malek, 51, telah menang dalam samannya terhadap kerajaan kerana menangkap dan menyeksanya pada tahun 1998.
Mahkamah juga menganugerahkan gantirugi RM2.5 juta kepadanya. [...]

    Asian NGOs Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI), in a letter today to the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM), urged the SUHAKAM to prove that it is worthy of an “A” status under the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and that it is truly a national human rights institution earnest in the pursuit [...]

   EDUCATE MALAYSIANS ON HUMAN RIGHTS by Michelle Yoon
This, at first glance, would seem like nothing. After all, who doesn’t know what human rights are, right? We all know that we’re free to speak, free to express ourselves, free to walk and talk and buy things, free to work, free to earn, free to..whatever. We [...]