Toby, currently interning at Pusat Rakyat LB, critically discusses the recent Noorfadilla case (where damages were reduced by 90 percent) and compares this with the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights and the US courts when awarding damages in cases of human rights violations. In the case of Noorfadilla Ahmad Saikin, the Shah […]
International human rights lawyer Wei Meng Lim-Kabaa returns to the blawg in dissecting the Court of Appeal’s recent decision on the Indira Gandhi child conversion case.
“I believe that the law on Human Rights is a necessary complement to the rules and regulations such as the Constitution that governs the nation. More so, its importance is elevated in the contemporary era of democracy. Without Human Rights people lose their rights to be relevant; for their rights to be taken into account […]
A call for more women’s representation in government.
Find out who won at the Awards and where Noorfadilla stands.
Why Irene Fernandez had to expose the plight of our migrant workers.
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Does the Government of Malaysia know what it is doing?
The right of women & children to be protected from secondhand smoke.
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Must-read: A constitutional law case affecting all women in Malaysia.
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