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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Hak Sejagat | Hak Asasi Manusia



HAK ASASI MANUSIA SEJAGAT



*aniaya Asasi aspirasi teragung berauanah bergerak berhak berhimpun berkahwin bermastautin berperikemanusiaan berucap dagangan hamba abdi *demokratik diperjandaan *ekonomi fikiran gangguan Hak harta hasutan hormat ikrar kanak-kanak *keabadian keadilan keamanan kebajikan kebebasan kebebasan berfikir *kebudayaan *kedamaian kedaulatan kedaulatan undang-undang kehormatan sejagat kelahiran Keluarga Kemahuan kemuliaan kemuliaan manusia kepercayaan keperibadian kesabaran kesatuan keselamatan *keselamatan sosial kesenian kesenian kesihatan kesusasteraan keturunan *keutuhan kewarganegaraan kezaliman makanan maruah media menganut menghinakan meninggalkan menyebarkan maklumat moral nilaidiri nyawa pakaian pekerjaan pelajaran pembezaan pembuangan pemulihan pendidikan pengabdian pengajaran pengangguran penggajian penghinaan *penghormatan pengiktirafan penindasan perasaan hati percerobohan diperhamba perlindungan perlindungan politik persahabatan persefahaman perumahan pilihanraya rakyat rasatakut rumahtangga sains samarata saraan sejagat seksaan surat-menyurat tahanan taraf tangkapan tribunal *ugama undang-undang undi zalim

    PERISYTIHARAN
    HAK ASASI MANUSIA SEJAGAT



    MUKADDUMAH

    Bahawasanya pengiktirafan keutuhan kemuliaan dan hak samarata serta asasi yang tak terpisah bagi seluruh umat manusia adalah asas kebebasan,keadilan dan kedamaian dunia.

    Bahawasanya pengabaian serta penghinaan terhadap hak asasi manusia telah pun mengakibatkan tindakan terkutuk yang telah melanggari perasaan hati umat manusia, dan munculnya sebuah dunia di mana manusia akan menikmati kebebasan berucap dan menganut kepercayaan serta kebebasan dari rasatakut dan citarasa telah pun diisytiharkan sebagai aspirasi toragung seluruh umat manusia.

    Sekiranya kita tidak mahu mendorong manusia dalam keadaan terdesak, sebagai pilihan terakhir, memberontak mementang kezaliman serta penindasan, maka adalah penting bagi hak asasi manusia dipertahankan oleh kedaulatan undang-undang.

    Bahawasanya adalah penting bagi memajukan perkembangan perhubungan persahabatan di antara negara-negara.

    Bahawasanya rakyat Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu, dalam Piagamnya telah sekali lagi menegaskan kepercayaan mereka terhadap hak asasi manusia, terhadap kemuliaan serta nilaidiri manusia dan terhadap hak samarata lelaki dan perempuan dan telah menetapkan keazaman untuk memajukan perkembangan sosial dan taraf hidup yang lebih sempurna dalam suasana kebebasan yang lebih luas.

    Bahawasanya Negara-Negara Anggota telah berikrar untuk masing-masing mencapai, dengan kerjasama Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu, pengutaraan kehormatan sejagat terhadap, serta pematuhan, hak asasi manusia dan kebebasan asasi.

    Bahawasanya satu fahaman bersama terhadap hak serta kebebasan ini seluruhnya adalah terpenting demi menjadikan ikrar ini kenyataan sepenuhnya.

    MAKA DENGAN INI

    Perhimpunan agung mengisytiharkan ...

    Perisytiharan sejagat hak asasi manusia ini sebagai suatu ukuran bersama terhadap pencapaian oleh seluruh umat manusia dan kesemua negara dengan tujuan supaya setiap individu dan setiap badan masyarakat, dengan senantiasa mengingati Perisytiharan ini, hendaklah berazam melalui pengajaran dan pendidikan bagi memajukan sanjungan terhadap seluruh hak-hak dan kebebasan ini dan secara langkah-langkah berperingkat-peringkat, di bidang negara dan antarabangsa, bagi menjaminkan pengkitirafan dan pematuhan sejagatnya yang berkesan, kedua-duanya di antara negara-negara anggota masing-masing dan rakyat wilayah-wilayah di bawah bidangkuasa mereka.

  • Perkara 1

    Semua manusia dilahirkan bebas dan samarata dari segi kemuliaan dan hak-hak. Mereka mempunyai pemikiran dan perasaan hati dan hendaklah bertindak di antara satu sama lain dengan semangat persaudaraan.

  • Perkara 2.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada semua hak-hak dan kebebasan yang termaktub dalam Perisytiharan ini, tanpa sebarang apa jua pembezaan, seperti bangsa, warna kulit, jantina, bahasa, ugama, faham politik atau lain-lain fahaman, asal-usul bangsa keturunan atau sosial harta-benda, kelahiran atau apa-apa taraf lain.

    Seterusnya, tiada sebarang pembezaan boleh dibuat berasaskan pada taraf politik atau bidangkuasa ataupun antarabangsa sesebuah negara atau wilayah datangnya seseorang itu, sama ianya merdeka, beraĆ¹anah, tanpa pemerintahan sendiri atau berada di bawah apa-apa sekatan kedaulatan lainnya.

  • Perkara 3.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada nyawa, kebebasan dan keselamatan diri.

  • Perkara 4.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh diperhamba atau diperabdikan; keabdian dan dagangan hamba abdi hendaklah dilarang dalam semua bentuknya.

  • Perkara 5.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh dikenakan seksaan atau layanan atau hukuman yang zalim, tidak berperikemanusiaan atau menghinakan.

  • Perkara 6.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada pengiktirafan di mana jua sebagai seorang insan di sisi undang-undang.

  • Perkara 7.

    Semua orang adalah samarata di sisi undang-undang dan berhak tanpa apa-apa pembezaan kepada perlindungan yang samarata di sisi undang-undang. Semua orang adalah berhak kepada perlindungan yang samarata daripada sebarang pembazaan yang melanggar Perisytiharan ini dan daripada sebarang hasutan terhadap pembezaan sedemikian.

  • Perkara 8.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada pemulihan yang berkesan oleh tribunal-tribunal kebangsaan yang kompeten terhadap tindakan-tindakan yang melanggar hak-hak asasi yang diberikannya oleh perlembagaan atau oleh undang-undang.

  • Perkara 9.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh dikenakan tangkapan, tahanan atau pembuangan negeri secara sewenang-wenangnya.

  • Perkara 10.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak dengan samarata sepenuhnya kepada pembicaraan adil dan terbuka oleh suatu tribunal bebas dan saksama, dalam penetapan hak-hak dan tanggungannya dan sebarang tuduhan jenayah terhadapnya.

  • Perkara 11.

    Setiap orang yang dituduh dengan kesalahan keseksaan adalah berhak dianggap tidak salah sehingga dibuktikan salah menurut undang-undang di dalam perbicaraan terbuka di mana dia telah diberikan segala jaminan yang perlu untuk pembelaannya.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh diputuskan bersalah atas sebarang kesalahan keseksaan oleh kerana sebarang tindakan atau ketinggalan yang tidak merupakan suatu kesalahan kesiksaan, di sisi undang-undang kebangsaan atau antarabangsa, pada masa ianya dilakukan. Tiada pula boleh dikenakan sebarang hukuman yang lebih berat dari hukuman yang terpakai ketika kesalahan keseksaan itu dilakukan.

  • Perkara 12.

    Tiada sesiapa pun yang boleh dikenakan kepada sebarang gangguan sewenang-wenangnya terhadap keadaan peribadi, keluarga, rumahtangga atau surat-menyuratnya, atau percerobohan ke atas maruah dan nama baiknya. Setiap orang berhak kepada perlindungan undang-undang terhadap gangguan atau percerobohan sedemikian.

  • Perkara 13.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada kebebasan bergerak dan bermastautin di dalam sempadan sesebuah negara.

    Setiap orang berhak meninggalkan mana-mana negara, termasuk negaranya sendiri,dan kembali semula ke negaranya.

  • Perkara 14.

    Setiap orang berhak memohon dan menikmati perlindungan politik dalam negara lain daripada sebarang aniaya.

    Hak ini tidak boleh dituntut bagi pendakwaan yang benar-benar timbul daripada kesalahan bukan politik atau daripada tindakan yang bertentangan dengan tujuan-tujuan dan prinsip-prinsip Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu.

  • Perkara 15.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada suatu kewarganegaraan.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh dilucutkan kewarganegaraannya secara sewenangwenangnya atau dinafikan hak menukar kewarganegaraanya.

  • Perkara 16.

    Lelaki dan perempuan dewasa, tanpa mengira bangsa, kewarganegaraan atau ugama, berhak berkahwin dan menubuhkan keluarga. Mereka adalah berhak kepada hak-hak samarata berhubung dengan perkahwinan, dalam tempoh masa perkahwinan dan pada pembubarannya.

    Perkahwinan hanya boleh dilaksanakan dengan persetujuan bebas dan sepenuhnya oleh pihak-pihak yang bercadang untuk berkahwin.

    Keluarga adalah yunit kumpulan semulajadi dan asasi dalam masyarakat dan adalah berhak kepada perlindungan oleh masyarakat dan Negara.

  • Perkara 17.

    Setiap orang berhak memiliki harta secara bersendirian serta secara berkongsi dengan orang lain.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh dilucutkan harta-bendanya secara sewenang-wenangnya.

  • Perkara 18.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada kebebasan berfikir, perasaan hati dan ugama; hak ini termasuklah kebebasan menukar ugama atau kepercayaannya, dan kebebasan, samada secara bersendirian atau secara bersama-sama dengan orang-orang lain dan secara terbuka atau bersendiri, menganuti ugama atau kepercayaannya melalui pengajaran, amalan, pemujaan dan pematuhan.

  • Perkara 19.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada kebebasan pendapat dan mengeluarkan fikiran; hak ini termasuklah kebebasan memegang pendapat tanpa gangguan dan menuntut, menerima dan menyebarkan maklumat dan buah fikiran melalui sebarang media dan tanpa mengira sempadan.

  • Perkara 20.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada kebebasan berhimpun secara aman dan menubuhkan persatuan.

    Tiada sesiapa pun boleh dipaksa menjadi ahli mana-mana pertubuhan.

  • Perkara 21.

    Setiap orang berhak mengambil bahagian dalam kerajaan negaranya, secara langsung atau melalui wakil-wakil yang dipilih dengan bebas.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada peluang samarata kepada perkhidmatan awam dalam negaranya.

    Kemahuan rakyat hendaklah menjadi asas kewibawaan kerajaan; kemahuan ini hendaklah dibuktikan melalui pilihanraya berkala yang sejati yang mana hendaklah diadakan secara sejagat dan samarata dan hendaklah diadakan secara undi sulit atau melalui acara pengundian bebas yang ketara.

  • Perkara 22.

    Setiap orang, sebagai anggota masyarakat, adalah berhak kepada keselamatan sosial dans berhak menjadikan suatu kenyataan, melalui usaha negara dan kerjasama antara-bangsa dan menurut organisai dan sumber-sumber dalam negara masing-masing, hak-hak ekonomi, sosial dan kebudayaan yang termesti bagi kemuliaannya dan perkembangan bebas keperibadiannya.

  • Perkara 23.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada pekerjaan, kepada pemilihan pekerjaannya secara bebas, kepada keadaan-keadaan pekerjaan yang adil dan berfaedah baginya dan kepada perlindungan daripada pengangguran.

    Setiap orang, tanpa sebarang pembezaan, adalah berhak kepada penggajian yang sama bagi kerja yang sama.

    Setiap orang yang bekerja adalah berhak kepada pembayaran saraan yang adil dan berfaedah baginya yang mana mempastikan buat diri dan keluarganya suatu kehidupan sesuai dengan kemuliaan manusia, dan yang mana ditambah, jika pertu, oleh cara-cara perlindungan sosial yang lainnya.

    Setiap orang berhak menubuh dan menjadi ahli kesatuan sekerja bagi memperlindungi kepentingan-kepentingannya.

  • Perkara 24

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada rihat dan masa lapang, termasuk batasan munasabah keatas masa bekerja dan cuti bergaji yang berkala.

  • Perkara 25

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada suatu taraf hidup yang memadai bagi kesihatan dan kebajikan diri dan keluarganya, termasuklah makanan, pakaian, perumahan dan pengawasan perubatan serta perkhidmatan sosial yang perlu, dan berhak kepada perlindungan ketika berlakunya pengangguran, kesakitan, ketidakupayaan, diperjandaan, keuzuran atau lain-lain kekurangan kehidupan dalam keadaan di luar kawalannya.

    Ibu dan anak adalah berhak kepada jagaan serta bantuan khas. Semua kanak-kanak, samada dilahirkan di dalam maupun di luar nikah, hendaklah menikmati perlindungan sosial yang sama.

  • Perkara 26.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada pelajaran. Pelajaran hendaklah diberikan percuma, sekurang-kurangnya pada peringkat awal dan asasnya. Pelajaran peringkat awal hendaklah diwajibkan. Pelajaran teknikal serta profesional hendaklah disediakan untuk umum dan pelajaran tinggi hendaklah mempunyai akses yang samarata kepada semua orang atas dasar kebolehan.

    Pelajaran hendaklah ditujukan kepada perkembangan sepenuhnya keperibadian manusia dan ke arah memperkukuhkan lagi rasa hormat bagi hak-hak dan kebebasan asasi manusia, lanya hendaklah memupuk persefahaman, kesabaran dan persahabatan di kalangan semua negara, bangsa atau kumpulan-kumpulan ugama, dan hendaklah memajukan segala kegiatan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu demi memelihara keamanan.

    Ibu-bapa mempunyai hak terdahulu untuk memilih jenis pelajaran yang akan diberikan kepada anak-anak mereka.

  • Perkara 27.

    Setiap orang berhak secara bebas mengambil bahagian dalam kegiatan kebudayaan masyarakatnya, menikmati kesenian dan sama-sama merasai kemajuan sains dan faedah-faedahnya.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada perlindungan kepentingan-kepentingan moral dan kebendaan hasil dari sebarang penghasilan sains, kesusasteraan atau kesenian yang mana ianya adalah penciptanya.

  • Perkara 28.

    Setiap orang adalah berhak kepada suatu susunan sosial dan antarabangsa dalam mana hak-hak asasi dan kebebasan yang termaktub dalam Perisytiharan ini boleh dijadikan kenyataan sepenuhnya.

  • Perkara 29.

    Setiap orang mempunyai kewajipan terhadap masyarakat hanya dalam mana perkembangan keperibadiannya secara bebas dan seluruhnya termungkin.

    Dalam mengamalkan hak-hak dan kebebasannya, setiap orang tertakluk hanya kepada batasan-batasan seperti yang ditentukan oleh undang-undang semata-mata bagi tujuan menjamin pengiktirafan dan penghormatan yang sepatutnya terhadap hak-hak dan kebebasan orang lain dan untuk mendekati keperluan-keperluan sepatutnya bagi akhlak, ketenteraman awam dan kebajikan umum dalam suatu masyarakat yang demokratik.

    Hak-hak dan kebebasan ini tidak boleh sama sekali diamalkan secara bertentangan dengan tujuan-tujuan dan prinsip-prinsip Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu.

  • Perkara 30.

    Tiada apa-apa jua dalam Perisytiharan ini boleh ditafsirkan sebagi sedia tersirat memberikan kepada mana-mana negara, kumpulan atau perseorangen sebarang hak untuk melibatkan diri dalam apa-apa kegiatan atau melakukan apa-apa perbuatan dengan tujuan memusnahkan apa-apa hak dan kebebasan yang termaktub dalam Perisytiharan ini.+

    [.pdf] - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=mli




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Friday, February 1, 2013

MALAYSIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CARD 2013



HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | World Report 2013 | Malaysia

In a nationally televised speech on Malaysia Day in September 2011, Prime Minister Seri Najib Tun Razak called for a Malaysia “which practices functional and inclusive democracy, where peace and public order are safeguarded in line with the supremacy of the Constitution, the rule of law and respect for basic human rights and individual rights.” However he added that there had to be “checks and balances … between national security and personal freedom,” and ensuing reforms have favored security over internationally recognized human rights.

Parliamentary elections must be held no later than April 2013, and political tensions were already high in November with both the opposition and the government alleging engagement by their political opponents in election-related intimidation and violence.

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Preventive Detention

In his September 2011 speech, Prime Minister Najib pledged to replace the notorious Internal Security Act (ISA), which permitted long-term detention without trial, and other rights-restricting legislation. The Banishment Act 1959 and the Restricted Residence Act 1933 were the first to be rescinded, followed by three emergency declarations and the emergency-related laws they made possible. One of the rescinded laws, the Emergency (Public Order and Crime Prevention) Ordinance 1969, had been regularly used to hold criminal suspects indefinitely without charge or trial.

The Security Offences (Special Measures) 2012 Act (SOSMA) replaced the ISA on July 31, 2012. On a positive note, SOSMA reduced initial detention without charge from 60 to no more than 28 days, and required that a suspect be charged in court or released thereafter. However, other provisions reduce human rights protections, including an overly broad definition of a security offense, allowing police rather than courts to authorize interception of communications during investigations, and permitting prosecutors to conceal the source of evidence and to keep the identities of witnesses secret, thereby preventing cross-examination. Even if a suspect is acquitted under SOSMA, the law permits a series of appeals, with bail disallowed, that could result in a suspect’s indefinite detention. Malaysian authorities, using transitional authority at the time SOSMA replaced the ISA, still hold 27 ISA detainees.

Freedom of Assembly and Association

In 2012, the government continued to violate rights to free association and peaceful public assembly. While Prime Minister Najib agreed in September 2011 to review section 27 of the Police Act, which mandated police permits for public assemblies, the government hastily drafted and passed a replacement Peaceful Assembly Act on December 20, 2011.

The new law rescinded the requirement for a permit but also introduced major new restrictions, including a broad ban on “moving assemblies” of any kind. Static protests are also prohibited closer than 50 meters from many prohibited sites, making it virtually impossible to hold an assembly in an urban setting. Other restrictions include empowering the police to set assembly conditions such as time, place, and date after taking into consideration other groups’ objections or “any inherent environmental factor.” Police were also given the power to use all “reasonable force” to break up a protest.

City and federal officials sought to prevent an April 28 sit-in sponsored by Bersih 3.0, the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections. They barred Bersih from using Dataram Merdeka (Independence Square) in central Kuala Lumpur and barricaded the area. Nevertheless, marchers numbering in the tens of thousands walked peacefully toward the barricaded square and when the announcement came that the rally was over began a peaceful dispersal. However, a small group breached the barricades. The police reacted with excessive force in what became a four-hour onslaught of tear gas, water cannon, and indiscriminate beatings and arrests.

On July 1, 2011, Home Affairs Minister HishammuddinHusseindeclared Bersih an illegal organization under the Societies Act. On July 24, 2012, the Kuala Lumpur High Court overturned that decision, ruling that the original decision was “tainted with irrationality.”

Freedom of Expression

Most major newspapers and television and radio stations remain controlled by media companies close to political parties in the government coalition. A recent amendment to the Evidence Act has raised fears that intermediary liability on the internet will further decrease freedom of expression. The provision creates a legal presumption that an owner, administrator, host, editor, or subscriber to a network service who has in their custody or control any computer from which any publication originates is presumed to have published or republished the content of the publication unless the contrary is proven.

The Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) retains its potency despite some reforms, such as ending the need to renew licenses annually and adding judicial oversight to what was the home minister’s unchecked power to approve or reject license applications. New publications still require initial approval and licenses still may be arbitrarily revoked. Other means of control include calls from the ministry offering “advice” to editors and prison terms and fines for “maliciously” printing so-called false news. The home minister maintains absolute discretion over licensing of printing presses.

In 2012, Malaysian courts partially advanced the right of free expression. Malaysiakini, the largest online newspaper in Malaysia, had repeatedly and unsuccessfully applied to publish a daily print version. On October 1, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled the home minister’s refusal was “improper and irrational” and the application should be resubmitted. In a significant statement contradicting the prevailing government view, the judge said that a license to publish was “a right, not a privilege.” The attorney general's chambers and the Home Ministry appealed the court’s decision.

Sisters in Islam, a local nongovernmental organization, also won a significant victory in July when the Court of Appeal dismissed a government appeal to overturn a 2010 High Court decision lifting the ban on Muslim Women and the Challenge of Islamic Extremism, a book of essays originally banned in 2008.

A civil court’s decision that the arrest of political cartoonist Zunar under the Sedition Act and the PPPA in September 2012 was lawful had a more negative impact, reinforcing the unwillingness of printing presses, publishers, and bookstores to be associated with controversial books.

Police Abuses and Impunity

Human Rights Watch and local civil society groups have documented police abuses, including excessive use of force during arrests, suspicious deaths in custody, failure to adequately investigate such incidents and to hold accountable those responsible; and inadequate post-mortem inquiries and investigations. Victims of police violence reported few effective avenues for redress and decried an apparent culture of police impunity for mistreatment.

Trial of Anwar Ibrahim

On January 9, 2012, a Kuala Lumpur court acquitted Anwar Ibrahim, parliamentary leader of Malaysia’s political opposition, of sodomy on the grounds that it could not “be 100 percent certain that the [DNA] evidence can be accepted, as there could have been tampering.” An appeal by the attorney general’s chambers, could add months, if not years, to resolution of the case.

Human Rights Defenders

Many observers believe the investigation was prompted by Suaram’s decision in 2010 to become involved in a French judicial investigation examining alleged corruption in Malaysia’s purchase of submarines from a French defense company.

Throughout September and October, pro-government media alleged that Suaram and a number of other NGOs critical of the government were receiving foreign funding in an attempt to destabilize the government.

Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Trafficking Victims

Malaysian immigration law does not recognize refugees and asylum seekers. The government is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and lacks domestic refugee law and asylum procedures. Malaysia refuses to permit refugees to work or to allow for education of refugee children.

In February, Malaysia denied the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to asylum seeker Hamza Kashgari, who appeared to be an asylum seeker from Saudi Arabia. He had fled after it was learned he had tweeted messages that some deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Kashgari was deported amid execution calls in his homeland. At this writing, he was still imprisoned.

The Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act conflates trafficking and people smuggling, and fails to provide meaningful protection to victims of either crime. The government confines trafficking victims in sub-standard government shelters without access to services and assistance until legal cases they are involved with are adjudicated.

Detention and Drugs Policy

The Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act continues to authorize preventive detention. During 2012, an estimated 700 people were held under the act.

The National Anti-Drugs Agency maintains over 20 puspens (drug detention centers) where users are held for a minimum of two years. Rates of relapse in Malaysia have been estimated at 70 to 90 percent and those re-arrested as users face long prison terms combined with caning. Drug traffickers face mandatory death sentences, but the number of people executed is not publicly available.

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

In 2012, discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons reached new levels of intensity. On June 25, Prime Minister Najib publicly stated that LGBT activities do not “have a place in the country.” On July 19, speaking before 11,000 imams and mosque committee members, he stated that “it is compulsory for us to fight” LGBT behavior.

In March, the High Court dismissed the application of the LGBT group Seksualiti Merdeka for a review of the police ban on their November 2011 festival, leaving the future of the annual festival in doubt.

Two October court rulings concerning transsexuals also caused alarm: in one, a transsexual was refused the right to change the gender recorded on her national identity card; and in the other it was ruled that Muslims born as males may not dress as females.

The government refuses to consider repeal of article 377B of the penal code which criminalizes adult consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” or to replace article 377C on non-consensual sexual acts with a modern, gender-neutral law on rape.

Key International Actors

The United States has not strongly pressed Malaysia over its failure to honor international human rights standards. Other than its demands for a fair trial for Anwar Ibrahim, the US has allowed concern for security cooperation to trump speaking out about human rights. During Trans-Pacific Pact free trade negotiations, the US has failed to hold Malaysia accountable for its human rights violations.

Malaysia is a member of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), but has not signed or ratified most core human rights treaties. The government has also opposed including protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Human Rights Declaration and has blocked consideration of a comprehensive agreement to protect the rights of all migrant workers in ASEAN. + HRW


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Monday, October 22, 2012

WWII forced labor paid compensation | Where's the money?

What could you do with RM207 billions? I could do a lot with just RM40 millions, thank you. Probably win the next GE13 for Sabah. That amount could pay for 12 months of the Government of Malaysia's expenditure. The figure of RM251 for Budget 2013 would probably has lots of padding for BN's nonsense and waste.

Would you steal from the Rakyat, dead or living? Some 30,000 were enslaved by the Japs in World War II and that money of RM207 billions was some means of assuaging their conscience and ours. But, Malaysian government ministers and public servants with their grubby crooked fingers have made the money vanished. It left some traces of its disappearance and a Pakatan member of Parliament is demanding answers!

Forced labor: Did RM207 billion compensation money disappear?

Harakahdaily | October 22, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR: The BN government is called upon to explain where the money worth RM207 billion that was given by the Japanese government as compensation to 30,000 forced laborers railway construction from 1942 to 1946 has gone to.

Until now it has not been rightfully handed over to the victims or their heirs although it was received 10 years ago.

Member of Parliament for Bukit Gantang, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nizar Jamaluddin told the House of Representatives, he has documents confirming its receipt by the Government

Shocked he said, on December 13, 2004, the Central Bank issued banker's checks worth RM107 billion and RM100 billion allocated in the form of registered shares of Maybank on 13 December 2004.

This is further evidence that the RM207 billion compensation money for 30,000 victims of forced labor was duly received by the government prior to December 13, 2004 again about 10 years ago.

But until now, the money is not given to the victims or their heirs.

As a result, said Mohamad Nizar, former Chief Minister of Perak, the Association of Former Welfare and Labor Heritage Railway Construction Siam to Burma 1942 - 1946 (Persatuan Kebajikan Bekas dan Warisan Buruh Binaan Landasan Keretapi Siam ke Burma 1942 - 1946) had sent a letter to the government of Malaysia to claim the money.

The letter had been sent to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak on July 27, 2011 demanding due payment of the money.

"A total of 30.000 Malaysians were involved in the construction of the railway, 60% of whom were Malays, 20% Indians and 15% Chinese. The remaining 5% were of other races. "

According to Nizar, the Prime Minister's Office upon receipt of the letter handed a copy for submission to the Ministry of Human Resources there Aug. 9, 2011.

He also understands that all parties in the government, including the Department of the Attorney General has agreed that the money should be transmitted to the 30,000 victims or their heirs.

"I wish to state here that if the matter was presented and approved by the Cabinet, then why it should be kept by the Treasury or Finance Treasurer for so long?" Nizar questioned in his speech in Parliament.

He said some of those involved have died, but their heirs are still there.

"The father of Tan Sri Datuk Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, Chief Judge of Malaya today was one of those who were mobilized by the Japanese government at the time to build the railways. And he is still alive."

"He is still in Ipoh and can describe how terrible it was for the 30.000 Malaysians," Nizar told Parliament.

Nizar added, "If compensation has been duly made, why is the government still keeping silent over the matter?"

For him, this is a solemn duty of trust, breached by namely the Ministry of Finance, Bank Negara, Ministry of Human Resources despite the clear instructions from the Prime Minister's Office that the Cabinet approve its disbursement.

"So I want an affirmation that there is an appeal from the association. They have asked that compensation be rightfully given. Why has it been denied?" he demanded.

He added that the governments of the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam had also received similar compensation and which were dutifully paid out to the rightful receipients.

TRANSLATED FROM Harakahdaily


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