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28 Jun 2022, 10:36 am
"We need to see Malaysia pass the actual legislative amendments to put this pledge into effect because we have been down this road before, with successive Malaysian governments promising much on human rights but ultimately delivering very little," he said. [read post]
13 Jan 2024, 1:00 pm
Ismail Sabri served as the ninth prime minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 12:30 am
Islam Online reports that the government of Malaysia yesterday decided that civil marriage laws and other laws should be amended to require that children be raised in the religion that both their parents shared at the time of their marriage. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 5:07 am
[JURIST] The movement in Malaysia to reform the judiciary took another step forward Thursday as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told a Bar Council assembly that the government will implement a Judicial Appointments Commission that will identify and nominate candidates for the bench, hopefully bringing transparency to the process. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 4:35 pm
A group of independent United Nations rights experts has urged the Government of Malaysia to withdraw its Sedition Act of 1948 amid allegations that critics of the country’s authorities have faced increasing criminalization and persecution. [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 6:34 am
The National Unity Government, the Myanmar government in exile that Maung had worked with, expressed concerns over such deportations. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 7:24 am
Three United Nations officials today called on the government of Malaysia to reverse its ban on the Catholic publication, The Herald, using the word "Allah" to refer to God in its Malay language edition. [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 12:00 pm
The organization called for the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and the incoming Malaysian government to review the joint raids conducted by state Islamic Departments for human rights violations and a comprehensive analysis of the impact the joint raids have on human rights in light of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia and international human rights policies. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 12:00 pm
Malaysia's original sedition law [BBC backgrounder] banned acts and speech expressing contempt against the government or any of Malaysia's royal sultans and called for violators to pay fines or face prison sentences up to three years in duration. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 9:08 pm
Source: The Diplomat (18 October 2018)https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/will-a-new-malaysia-get-rid-of-the-old-death-penalty/In a sign of potential reform, the Malaysian government of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad appears to be moving toward abolishing the death penalty. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 9:13 am
The government of Malaysia established 1MDB to promote economic development in Malaysia through global partnerships and foreign direct investment. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 9:13 am
The government of Malaysia established 1MDB to promote economic development in Malaysia through global partnerships and foreign direct investment. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 10:35 pm
In Malaysia, the government's Home Ministry has issued an order under the internal Security Act declaring that the use of the word "Allah" in Christian publications is no longer prohibited. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 10:32 am
Sharom joins four opposition politicians who also were charged this year under Malaysia's... [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 6:42 am
Refugees in Malaysia are generally at risk because the country is neither a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees nor has a domestic administrative framework to govern the rights of refugees. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 4:17 am
[JURIST] Malaysia's Kuching High Court [official website] has issued an injunction to stop a company from destroying the homes of indigenous Malaysians. [read post]
4 May 2008, 11:50 pm
In Malaysia, the Catholic newspaper The Herald has won an initial victory in its challenge to a government claim that it may not use "Allah" as a synonym for God in its Malay-language reporting. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 2:17 pm
However, there have been some important recent reforms in business law in Malaysia as the government of Najib Razak finds ways to push its liberalization agenda further in order to attract more foreign capital in the form of market exchange and direct investment. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 1:47 pm
La Rue was responding to media reports that Malaysian authorities used tear gas and water cannons against protestors as part of a rally organized by Bersih 2.0 [advocacy website], a coalition of non-government organizations pushing for democratic reforms in Malaysia. [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 9:30 am
Mahathir criticized these efforts to turn Malaysia’s royal families, who head nine of their thirteen states, against the government. [read post]
