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Masyarakat Malaysia Harus Fokus Membenteras Gangguan Seksual

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28 Oct 2023205 Views0

MACSA & WAFIQ memandang serius pengucapan secara terbuka dalam Dewan Rakyat semalam yang boleh dilihat jelik dan lucah oleh Ahli Parlimen Langkawi, Datuk Mohd Suhaimi Abdullah. Tindakannya bukan saja melanggar Peraturan 23 Peraturan-Peraturan Majlis Mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat tetapi juga merupakan suatu gangguan seksual seperti yang ditakrifkan dalam Akta Anti-Gangguan Seksual 2022 [Akta 840]. Takrifan Seksyen 2 Akta 840 memperuntukkan bahawa gangguan seksual adalah “sebarang kelakuan tidak diingini yang bersifat seksual, dalam apa-apa bentuk, sama ada secara lisan, bukan lisan, visual, isyarat atau fizikal, yang ditujukan kepada seseorang yang secara munasabahnya menyinggung atau menghina atau merupakan suatu ancaman kepada kesejahteraannya”. Suatu tindakan tegas harus dikenakan ke ...

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Terkait Justifikasi Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia terhadap Sekatan ke atas Laman Web TV Pertiwi

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21 Aug 2023160 Views0

Majlis Perundingan Melayu (MPM) dan Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations (MACSA) memandang serius terhadap kenyataan Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia pada 18 Ogos 2023 yang cuba memberi justifikasi terhadap sekatan ke atas laman Web TV Pertiwi. MPM dan MACSA senada dengan kenyataan Presiden Persatuan Kewartawanan Multimedia Malaysia bahawa pihak berkuasa perlu memastikan pengamal media di negara ini diberi kebebasan dalam menjalankan tugas dengan berlandaskan etika kewartawanan sedia ada, selaras dengan jaminan dan dasar Kerajaan Perpaduan dan jaminan yang diberikan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berhubung kebebasan media kepada pengamal media di negara ini. MPM dan MACSA berpendapat, kerajaan tidak boleh menyekat kebebasan bersuara terutamanya s...

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Suhakam perlu kekal institusi bebas, patuh Perlembagaan Pesekutuan

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19 Jun 2023188 Views0

19 JUN 2023 Kami terdiri dari gabungan Organisasi Masyarakat Sivil (Civil Society Organisation - CSO) MACSA, PEMBELA, PPMM, dan mewakili lebih daripada 100 organisasi lain menzahirkan kegusaran kami dengan beberapa perkembangan mutakhir ini berkenaan SUHAKAM. Sejak barisan Pesuruhjaya SUHAKAM yang baru bagi penggal 2022-2025 dilantik, dalam tempoh setahun ini kami melihat terdapat usaha bersepadu daripada sesetengah pihak yang ingin mengawal SUHAKAM bagi agenda mereka sendiri yang kian rancak. Kenyataan demi kenyataan dikeluarkan untuk memberi gambaran yang salah dan mengelirukan kepada umum. Kami ingin membetulkan beberapa gambaran salah yang dibangkitkan daripada amatan kami. Pertamanya, kami ingin menyatakan bahawa SUHAKAM kini lebih inklusif berbanding dahulu. Sesi libat urus ...

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Film Censorship Board Must Uphold Morality

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18 Jan 2023143 Views0

MACSA is baffled at the recent premier of the film ‘Pulau’ produced by My Way Pictures in collaboration with Film Force Studios. Whilst the legal provisions regulating film contents are scattered over a few statutes, it must be stressed that reading these provisions harmoniously, there exists a framework of guidelines and regulations monitoring film industry in Malaysia. Yet, with wide discretion to approve or to partially censor or even to wholly reject films from being shown for public viewing in Malaysian cinemas, the Film Censorship Board (LPF) has miserably failed its task in the current kerfuffle. The very fact that ‘Pulau’ is now premiering in local cinemas proves that it has gotten greenlight from Film Censorship Board to proceed with screening while retaining bikini, kissing an...

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Resolusi Pro-Keluarga OIC_IPHRC 2022 Wajar Menjadi Teras Malaysia

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14 Jan 2023121 Views0

PADA 18 hingga 22 Disember lalu berlangsung sesi ke-20 Suruhanjaya Tetap Hak Asasi Pertubuhan Kerjasama Islam (OIC-IPHRC) di Jeddah, Arab Saudi. Persidangan itu adalah sejurus setelah tamatnya Piala Dunia FIFA Qatar 2022 yang berlangsung dari 20 November sehingga 18 Disember lalu. Justeru, menarik apabila di dalam dokumen resolusi OIC-IPHRC, negara-negara Islam telah mengucapkan tahniah kepada kerajaan Qatar atas kejayaannya menepis propaganda mengenai Islam dan secara tegas menolak agenda lesbian, gay, biseksual, transgender dan pelik (LGBTQ). Rakyat Malaysia juga tidak terkecuali mengikuti riuh-rendah komen berat sebelah oleh dunia Barat ke atas Qatar, terutama sekali apabila terdapat usaha menentang larangan minuman keras di dalam stadium dan larangan mempromosi budaya LGBTQ. B

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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

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13 Jul 2022287 Views0

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

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09 Jun 2022225 Views0

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

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16 Apr 2022187 Views0

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...