LETTER | But M'sia's acceptance of 184 or 268 UPR recommendations is a step forward.
| The Human Rights Commission participated in the 40th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 14, during which the council adopted the report made during the 3rd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review , where Malaysia’s human rights record and progress had been scrutinised.
This is particularly true with regards to the 1951 International Convention on Refugees, the ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the raising of the minimum marriage age to 18 years old, which the government had committed to nationally and internationally.
Suhakam is also alarmed by several developments in Malaysia, such as the decision to abolish the mandatory death penalty only, despite the opportunity to do a complete and crosscutting abolishment across all laws and several pronouncements indicating this intention, as well as the recent police investigation into the organisers of the Women’s March for sedition and illegal assembly, despite the fact that the government had announced that these were draconian laws intended to be repealed.
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