Our shameful response to genocide against the Rohingya
Many have been deeply shocked and saddened by the response to the latest wave of Rohingya refugees to arrive at …
Category Archives: refugees
Give priority to refugees instead of importing more foreign labour
Last week, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Amna Baloch, announced that her country was negotiating with Malaysia to provide up …
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 …
The Rohingya crisis: Appoint Anwar as special envoy
In New York last week, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad added his voice, not for the first time, to the …
Hope for refugees in the new Malaysia?
One of the great failures of the former BN regime when it came to human rights was its dismal record …
Don’t deport Uighurs without due process
It was recently reported that Thailand is seeking Putrajaya’s cooperation to extradite more than a dozen Uighurs who may have …
Malaysia’s disgraceful disregard for human rights
The BN government seems to have a penchant for putting Malaysia in the international spotlight for all the wrong reasons. …
The Rohingya Genocide: help or hype?
The news coming out of Myanmar’s Rakhine state is grim. Genocide is once again rearing its ugly head, this time …
The Papagomo video and the dark side of our nation
I watched the video (above) of Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, otherwise known as Papagomo, assaulting a Pakistani migrant worker. …
Irene Fernandez, a true Malaysian hero
As I wrote in this blog in November 2008, Irene Fernandez was a true Malaysian hero. She took on a …
