Human rights groups in Malaysia: The case of the Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
This paper is inspired by an interest to understand the roles and contributions of human rights advocacy groups to Malaysia and society. It aims to assess their effectiveness in advocating human rights, and the limitations that they face by referring the SUARAM as the case study. SUARAM has over...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/12876/ http://eprints.um.edu.my/12876/1/Human_Rights_Advocacy_in_Malaysia_%2D_The_Case_of_Suaram.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper is inspired by an interest to understand the roles and
contributions of human rights advocacy groups to Malaysia and
society. It aims to assess their effectiveness in advocating human
rights, and the limitations that they face by referring the SUARAM
as the case study. SUARAM has over the past two decades become
one of the visible non-state actors in the country in its role to achieve
better human rights protection. This study is concerned with how
SUARAM has evolved, with special focus on its work in the area of
civil and political rights. Despite changes in the political landscape
of the country and the increase of civil actions and public awareness
on the work of civil society groups, this paper argues that they can
claim little achievements for the past years of human rights activism
due to the rigid government policy, the non-human rights friendly
legislation, and also its own internal organizational weaknesses. One
significant aspect is the close link of human rights advocacy groups
with the political parties that can lead to problems of credibility and
transparency. |
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