Fraying ethnic relations affecting foreign policy consensus
A series of recent controversial foreign policy statements by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has exposed the increasingly deep divisions …
Category Archives: Human rights
1000 days of shame
Keynote address at 1000-day anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh The Pullman Hotel |Kuala Lumpur | 16th …
Comic books, politics and propaganda
What is it with us Malaysians? We seem to careen from one controversy to another in quick succession. Before we …
Hypocrisy & hyperbole at the UN
Dozens of world leaders descended on New York last week for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), …
Is Pakatan Harapan serious about protecting human rights?
It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due …
Pakatan Harapan: Divided & distracted
I was outside the gates of Parliament last week in support of a group of fishermen, environmentalists and concerned …
Pastor Raymond Koh and the great cover-up
“I defy decent people to read it, without their hearts leaping in indignation and shouting their revolt…” ~ Emile Zola,‘I …
Is Pakatan Harapan committed to human rights?
It’s been more than a year since our “new” government came to power. I was there outside the gates of …
The Suhakam verdict: where’s the outrage?
Last week, the Suhakam panel investigating the disappearances of Pastor Raymond Koh and Amri Che Mat delivered a courageous, groundbreaking, …
Mujahid: behind the reformist facade
Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the minister in charge of religious affairs, has carefully cultivated an image of himself as an open-minded …
