The fight for human rights continues

More needs to be done to create an environment that allows citizens to fully exercise their civil and political rights in Malaysia. — 123rf.com

THE Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) will now have “teeth that will turn into fangs”.

That is what Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has said when the amendments to the Suhakam Act were passed in Parliament on Nov 9.