KUALA LUMPUR: Human Rights activist Jerald Joseph( pic) has announced his departure as Human Rights

Godfrey Gregory Jaitol and Jerald Joseph had each completed two terms of three years each. All five

KOTA KINABALU: The authorities are being urged to immediately solve the issue of undocumented people or statelessness in Sabah following the alleged sale of the proposed foreigners’ cards to these communities here. The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia( Suhakam) Head of Sabah office, Jasmih Slamat, said they recently received information about the alleged sales of these cards, from someone claiming to have been offered these cards.He said the person had gone to Suhakam to ask whether these doc

SIBU: An estimate of 1, 000 undocumented children in Sarawak have been denied their rights to education, says Malaysian Commission of Human Rights( Suhakam) commissioner Datuk Dr Madeline Berma. Madeline, who was speaking at a press conference organised by Suhakam on Monday( March 14), added that these children were not documented, as their parents had not registered their marriages." We have written to the Education Minister to allow them to enrol in school, as we know that at least one of thei

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PETALING JAYA: The abolition of the mandatory death penalty is just the first step towards seeing severe punishments being reduced across the board, says the de facto law minister. Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said it could be described as an overhaul of the country’s criminal justice system.He said Putrajaya’s decision to abolish the mandatory death penalty was also unprecedented, going against the grain of increasing punishments over the past four decades.“ We are not increasing the

NIBONG TEBAL: It was 4am when Dil Akhbar Ariffin, 46, was awakened by what he thought were gunshots.He got out of bed and stepped outside, only to see large groups of Rohingya refugees trekking past the village. CLICK TO ENLARGE “ There were at least 100 in one group, and we( the villagers) were outnumbered.... We could not stop them.“ I saw a man who was limping being supported by his friends, ” he said, adding that he grabbed a parang as he was worried for his family’s safety. Dil Akhbar said