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 …
Category Archives: refugees
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 …
Why do Australia’s dirty work?
Thursday May 12, 2011 Diplomatically Speaking By Dennis Ignatius The problem of asylum seekers is a serious one and Malaysia is …
Cruel, inhuman & degrading punishment
Last month, Amnesty International published a report drawing attention to the fact that judicial caning in Malaysia has reached epidemic …
