November 13, 2012
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Malaysia's Human Rights Record Up for Review in October, 2013
by Datuk Khaw Lake Tee, Vice-Chairperson, SUHAKAM
THE tellurian rights situation in a nation is scrutinised by a general community by a unique resource of a Human Rights Council (HRC) which monitors as good as assesses a tellurian rights annals as good as addresses tellurian rights violations of any of a 192 United Nations (UN) part of states periodically each 4 years.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) gives a opportunity for all part of states to acknowledgement what action they have taken to urge a tellurian rights situation as good as to overcome hurdles to a enjoyment of tellurian rights, to enhance a genius to deal effectively with tellurian rights hurdles as good as to share most suitable tellurian rights practices among a states as good as other stakeholders around a world. Forty-eight states have been evaluated any year in 3 different sessions.
The reviews, conducted by a UPR working organisation which consists of 47 members of HRC, have been based upon a inhabitant inform supposing by a state underneath review, a inform contained in a reports of eccentric tellurian rights experts as good as groups (such as a special procedures, tellurian rights covenant bodies as good as other UN entities) as good as a inform from other stakeholders, together with inhabitant tellurian rights institutions as good as non-governmental organisations.
The UPR will consider a border to which! a state underneath examination respects a tellurian rights obligations set onward in a UN Charter, a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, tellurian rights instruments to which a state is party, intentional pledges as good as commitments done by a state (national tellurian rights policies and/or programmes implemented), as good as germane general humanitarian law. Each state examination is assisted by a organisation of 3 states, good known as "troikas", who also offer as rapporteurs. The UPR examination upon Malaysia was conducted upon February 11, 2009 during a fourth event of UPR. The troikas for Malaysia were Egypt, Nicaragua as good as Qatar.
Malaysia adopted 62 recommendations in a result report, which included, among others, a resolution of general treaties, examination of existent laws as good as judicial system, inhabitant policies as good as strategies upon tellurian rights, economic, social as good as informative rights, tellurian rights of a vulnerable groups, unfamiliar workers as good as trafficking in persons.
Malaysia rejected 22 recommendations as good as reserved comments upon nineteen recommendations. The reply to a nineteen reservations was supposing in Jun 2009, in conjunction with a tabling of a UPR result inform upon Malaysia, at a 11th HRC Regular Session.
Malaysia is now in a theatre of a UPR routine where it is approaching to exercise a pledges as good as commitments made. A inform upon a standing of a implementation of UPR recommendations is due upon March eleven next year, after which Malaysia will undergo a second cycle examination approaching to take place at a 17th Session of a UPR in October next year.
As a inhabitant tellurian rights institution, a Human Rights Commission of
Malaysia (Suhakam) has been actively involved at both a preparatory as good as examination stages upon Malaysia.
It plays an important purpose in post-UPR theatre as part of an ongoing routine rather than a one-off programme. Suhakam has undertaken stairs to follow up as good as monitor a implementation of a UPR recommendations.
They include, among others, establishing an Internal UPR Follow-up as good as Monitoring Committee comprising focal officers of assorted groups as good as divisions within a commission; conducting recognition programmes upon a significance of a UPR resource as good as Malaysia's obligations underneath a general tellurian rights mechanism; enchanting with supervision agencies as good as other stakeholders by conference as good as lecture sessions; sharing of most suitable practices as good as grant in UPR-related training materials; and, enchanting with informal as good as general tellurian rights bodies by inform sell as good as delivery of statements.
It has been 3 years since a last examination upon Malaysia. Suhakam is gratified which there has been swell done by a supervision in ensuring a implementation as good as achievement of a general joining done by a UPR. The repeal of a Internal Security Act, a Sedition Act, Emergency Declarations as good as Banishment Act as good as a examination of a series of laws, together with Section twenty-seven of a Police Act, a Printing Presses as good as Publications Act as good as a Official Secrets Act, have been some certain moves with courtesy to reviewing existent laws to ensure compliance w! ith gene ral tellurian rights principles.
Suhakam welcomes Malaysia's resolution of a Convention upon a Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as good as a withdrawal of several of a reservations underneath a Convention upon a Rights of a Child (CRC) as good as a Convention upon a Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination opposite Women (CEDAW) in 2010, as good as a recent decision to permit to a dual optional protocols to a CRC.
Suhakam urges a supervision to feature a efforts towards ratifying a remaining 6 core tellurian rights instruments as good as hopes which a supervision will speed up a withdrawal of a remaining reservations to a CRC, CEDAW as good as CRPD.
Suhakam hopes a supervision will undertake suitable stairs to ensure social as good as health services, preparation as good as competent authorised protection measures for a marginalised groups as good as continue a efforts to residence a issues of tellurian trafficking as good as all forms of exploitation of both nationals as good as foreigners. Suhakam also recommends which a supervision incorporate a UPR recommendations into a proposed National Human Rights Action Plan.
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