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Kasthuri Patto’s factually wrong statement on the Universal Periodic Review and why the Chairman of SUHAKAM is right on local mould

We refer to Kasthuri Patto's erroneous statement on the process of The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in an article where she attacks the newly appointed Chairman of SUHAKAM. She claims that Malaysia’s involvement in the UPR process is somehow dependent on SUHAKAM’s grade A status within the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situation in their countries and to fulfill their human rights obligations. The UPR process involves 3 parties: the state the civil societies the national human rights institution (NHRI). SUHAKAM is our NHRI. 𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗛𝗥𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱...

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International community must condemn the abhorrent Islamophobic practices in India

MACSA joins the international community in condemning the abhorrent Islamophobic practices in India. The latest episode where a senior official from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named Nupur Sharma who disparaged Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is proof of the rapid growth of Islamophobia in India. Although the BJP had reiterated that it was "𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯" and "𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺", Ms Sharma is no fringe element within the party. What is concerning is the fact that she is the official BJP spokesperson who was invited to TV debates to represent and defend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. This latest incident follows series of Islamophobic incidences that shook the South Asian country....

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Stop the discriminatory, hypocritical and self-serving treatment of egregious human rights abuses

Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations (MACSA) calls on the media and human rights organizations not to be discriminatory, hypocritical and self serving in the treatment of egregious human rights abuses on the back of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Though MACSA opposes the invasion by Russia and Ukraine and any subsequent human rights abuses, MACSA finds appalling the selective treatment of US and western countries on war crimes and egregious human rights abuses. The US has yet to be accounted for the war crimes on the illegal war and incursion in Iraq and Libya, among others, it initiated. They have yet to be taken to account of its decades long illegal detention without trial of abducted prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. The US has consistently been supporting to this day e...

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Tolak anasir Islamofobia dalam arus perdana

Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) pada tahun ini mengisytiharkan 15 Mac sebagai Hari Islamofobia Sedunia. Gabungan Pertubuhan Masyarakat Sivil Malaysia (MACSA) mengalu-alukan pengiktirafan ke atas permasalahan kebencian terhadap umat Islam ini yang menyebabkan mereka menjadi mangsa prejudis, stereotaip dan diskriminasi. Islamofobia turut berlaku di Malaysia, tetapi malangnya kesedaran menentang Islamofobia masih rendah dan banyak pihak termasuk umat Islam sendiri memandang enteng terhadap perkara ini. Tanpa disedari, lslamofobia menjadi satu dogma yang diterima dalam kehidupan seharian sehingga tidak menyedari ia semakin meluas. Masyarakat sudah terlalu lama dibanjiri berita memberi gambaran buruk dan menakutkan terhadap Islam sehingga ia mengaburkan garis nilai manusia s...

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Suhakam Hendaklah Tegakkan Perlembagaan dalam Mempromosi Hak Asasi Manusia

SUHAKAM dalam laporan pertengahan penggal baru-baru ini telah menyatakan bahawa semua Undang-Undang Murtad Syariah sebagai diskriminasi melanggar Perkara 8 perlembagaan kita. Suhakam menyatakan: “Walaupun Perkara 11 Perlembagaan Persekutuan senyap sama ada kebebasan beragama di Malaysia termasuk kebebasan untuk keluar atau menukar agama, undang-undang Syariah Negeri memperuntukkan bidang kuasa mahkamah Syariah untuk membuat pengisytiharan bahawa seseorang itu bukan lagi Islam dan menjadikan murtad jenayah hanya kepada Muslim dan Muslim di negeri-negeri tertentu. Oleh itu, undang-undang ini mungkin tidak serasi dengan hak seseorang untuk kesamarataan di sisi undang-undang di bawah Fasal 8(1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan, terutamanya apabila kesan berbangkit daripada penukaran agama orang

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Pengiktirafan Gender Ketiga memperlihatkan kecenderungan SUHAKAM mengimport nilai-nilai songsang dari Barat

MACSA melahirkan rasa gusar dengan Laporan Separuh Penggal SUHAKAM bagi Proses Semakan Berkala Sejagat Ke-3 Malaysia. Proses Semakan Berkala Sejagat atau Universal Periodic Review (UPR) adalah proses yang berlangsung setiap 5 tahun sekali bagi menilai tahap pengamalan hak asasi anggota Persatuan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu, selaras keputusan Perhimpunan Agung PBB pada 2006. Malaysia telah melalui proses in sebanyak tiga kali. Institusi hak asasi manusia kebangsaan (National Human Rights Institution atau NHRI) seperti SUHAKAM dikehendaki menghantar laporan ke Majlis Hak Asasi bagi tujuan dipertimbangkan semasa proses ini berjalan. Laporan Separuh Penggal NHI akan dihantar terlebih dahulu sementara laporan penuh UPR Ke-4 yang dijangka berlangsung dalam tahun 2024, akan dihantar sekitar Jun 202...

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Purchase MACSA Inaugural Islamophobia Report 2017 – 2020 Here

Islamophobia in Malaysia? Are you sure there’s Islamophobia in a Muslim country? Some may ask in disbelief. Unfortunately it has become an acceptable way in our daily life that many don’t even realise that this is widespread and wrong. MACSA Inaugural Islamophobia Report 2017-2020 records incidences of Islamophobic tendencies occurring in Muslim-majority Malaysia. This Report is the first of its kind to document the many hate speeches and prejudices that plagued the Malaysian society and caused many Muslims to be unconsciously discriminated. MACSA has compiled instances to outline the Islamophobic incidences in Malaysia during the reporting period of 2017 - 2020 to record publicly these Islamophobic instances as a way to create awareness for the public so that future instances can be...

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Joint Statement Islamic NGOs Against The Research Proposals Of “Feasibility Of Having Legislation Of The Recognition Of A Third Gender In Malaysia” By The Human Rights Commission Of Malaysia (Suhakam)

We, as citizens of Malaysia strongly oppose the proposal to recognise The Third Gender in Malaysia by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) entitled “Feasibility of Having Legislation of the Recognition of a Third Gender in Malaysia”. A number of non governmental organisations (NGOs) and individuals have written in support of SUHAKAM by using erroneous arguments in their joint statement entitled ‘Responding to Parti Islam Se-Malaysia's (PAS) Criticism of the Research on "Feasibility of Having Legislation of the Recognition of a Third Gender in Malaysia" by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM)’ dated 16th June 2021 in Free Malaysia Today and Malaysiakini portals. The objection in efforts of recognising the third gender has not only been made by Parti Islam...

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Kenyataan Bersama Bantahan NGO Islam terhadap Penyelidikan ke arah Mengiktiraf Jantina Ketiga oleh Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia (SUHAKAM)

Kami ingin menyatakan bantahan kami sebagai rakyat Malaysia terhadap tawaran penyelidikan ke arah mengiktiraf jantina ketiga di Malaysia oleh Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia (SUHAKAM) bertajuk “Feasibility of Having Legislation of the Recognition of a Third Gender in Malaysia”. Beberapa badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) dan individu telah menulis mempertahankan SUHAKAM dengan menggunakan hujah- hujah yang mengelirukan dalam surat mereka bertajuk ‘Menjawab Kecaman Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) Terhadap Penyelidikan “Feasibility of Having Legislation of the Recognition of a Third Gender in Malaysia” oleh Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia (SUHAKAM)’ bertarikh 16 haribulan Jun 2021 seperti yang disiarkan oleh portal Free Malaysia Today dan “Menjawab kecaman PAS terhadap penyelidika...

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Petisyen Membantah Kajian Menyokong Pengiktirafan Gender Ketiga oleh Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia (SUHAKAM)

Pautan Petisyen: http://chng.it/gWdqThr2 1. MACSA mempertahankan kebebasan hak asasi manusia dengan nilai-nilai moral dan agama yang dipegang Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara Asia yang meletakkan Islam sebagai agama persekutuan negara mengikut Perkara 3(1) Perlembagaan Persekutuan. 2. Termasuklah komuniti transgender yang turut dijamin maruah diri, layak untuk hidup dan memiliki akses ke semua tempat awam seperti yang termaktub dalam Artikel 1 Deklarasi Hak Asasi Manusia Sejagat (UDHR), Deklarasi Kaherah mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia dalam Islam (CDHRI) dan Deklarasi Hak Asasi Manusia ASEAN (AHRD). Mereka seharusnya tidak dipinggirkan dan dijamin hak sebagai warganegara Malaysia. 3. Namun, kita harus jelas bahawa dokumen asal UDHR pada tahun 1948, dan seperti mana yang diterimapakai ol

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