Competing agendas add spice to review of human rights record


PETALING JAYA: Public awareness of human rights is on the rise going by the interest being shown by various groups to the upcoming review of the Malaysian Government’s human rights record by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC).

This is a stark comparison to when Malaysians had barely two months to bone up on what the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was before Malaysia’s first review in Geneva in 2009.

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