Keep children out of political campaigning

We, the undersigned, are Malaysian non-governmental organisations working on child rights, child protection and the welfare of children. We write together because of campaign materials circulating in the final days of the Negeri Sembilan state election.

That material shows leaders and campaigners from Pakatan Harapan and the DAP directing children to shout campaign slogans and to call on the public to vote. The same principle applies with equal force to every party and candidate, and we would say the same of any other whose material showed the same.