Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Activists want RCI on Malaysia
Rights activists behind the Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation (BoPIM), a UK-based human rights NGO, sees a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Malaysia as perhaps the best way forward in Borneo after over 50 years of Sabah and Sarawak in Federation with the peninsula.
Joe Fernandez | September 13,...
Malaysia: UN rights office urges review of colonial-era Sedition Act
The United Nations human rights office today urged Malaysian authorities to immediately stop investigations and prosecutions under a 1948 law that curbed free speech and freedom of expression in the South-east Asian nation.
16 September 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today urged Malaysian authorities to immediately stop...
Police should fight crime, not rely on repressive laws, say lawyers, activists
The police should focus on fighting crime with better intelligence and investigative work instead of relying on repressive laws, say human rights groups and lawyers.
BY EILEEN NG Published: 21 September 2014
They said the police force’s argument that repealing preventive detention laws would cause a rise in crime could not...
Torture, detention won’t curb drug crimes
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) urged the government to reconsider renewing the Dangerous Drugs Act 1985 (DDA), saying its lack of transparency, detention without trial and use of torture were violations against basic human rights.
KUALA LUMPUR: Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) urged the government to reconsider renewing the Dangerous Drugs Act...
UN Rights Office disappointed over Appeals Court’s upholding of Somyot’s jail sentence
The United Nations human rights office yesterday voiced disappointment at last Friday’s decision of the Appeals Court in Thailand to uphold the 11-year imprisonment conviction of rights activist Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, the editor of Voice of Thaksin magazine, on lese majeste
in General | September 24, 2014
The United Nations human rights...
M’sia turning ‘INTOLERANT & ABUSIVE’ because Najib thinks he can get away with it – NGO
Dubbed the 'champion of doubletalk' by influential U.S. daily Washington Post a year before Malaysia held its controversial general elections in 2013, Prime Minister Najib Razak is widely expected to pull another 'self-aggrandizing' act when he delivers his nation's report card to the United Nations in New York tomorrow.
KUALA...
Moro: Philippines Recognizes Massacre
The 25 Thursday 2014, the Philippine Government officially recognized a massacre of approximately 1500 residents belonging to the Moro community, which took place in a village in the Sultan Kudarat province in the 1970s
The 25 Thursday 2014, the Philippine Government officially recognized a massacre of approximately 1500 residents belonging...
Blog | Vietnam Undercover in Vietnam: Room for debate frees up but bloggers remain imprisoned
In the final part of CPJ's "Undercover in Vietnam" series on press freedom in Vietnam, Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin reveals how prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai remains behind bars for his critical writing despite the margin for debate opening.
By Shawn W. Crispin/Southeast Asia Representative
In the final part of...
PHL gets $17.68-M aid for law enforcement, judicial reforms
The Philippines received a P795-million boost from the United States for beefing up its land-based and maritime law enforcement and judicial reforms.
October 1, 2014 1:23pm
The Philippines received a P795-million boost from the United States for beefing up its land-based and maritime law enforcement and judicial reforms.
A statement from the...
Leaders of Khmer Rouge lodge appeal against their human rights convictions
Two Khmer Rouge leaders have formally appealed convictions for crimes against humanity which saw them handed life sentences by Cambodia's U.N.-backed court.
AFP
October 1, 2014, 12:03 am TWN
PHNOM PENH -- Two Khmer Rouge leaders have formally appealed convictions for crimes against humanity which saw them handed life sentences by Cambodia's...
