ANNUAL REPORT 2019
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CHAPTER 1
SUHAKAM Commissioners with some of the children who presented copies of the
Human Rights Module to them and the MOE before it was launched by MOE’s
Director of School Management Division, Dato’ Mohd Jamil Mohamed, in conjunction
with the International Human Rights Day celebration on 10 December.
4. Training of Trainers for UNISEL Lecturers
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between SUHAKAM
and Universiti of Selangor (UNISEL) in 2017 provided for, among others,
the introduction of a human rights course for UNISEL students as an
elective subject.
To ensure that the lecturers have sufficient human rights knowledge,
SUHAKAM conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT) course for about
20 lecturers from UNISEL’s Faculty of General Studies at its Shah Alam
campus from 26 - 27 February. The ToT was officiated by Commissioner
Datuk Lok Yim Pheng and followed by a session on the ‘Introduction to
Human Rights and the role of SUHAKAM’, ‘International Human Rights
Treaties’, ‘Human Rights in the context of Malaysia’ and current human
rights issues. The 2-day ToT ended with a visit to the Bukit Jalil Immigration
Detention Centre to expose the participants to the reality of being held
in a detention centre and the relevant human rights aspects.
It was interesting to note that UNISEL started offering the human rights
course in April 2019, and 34 diploma students were the first batch to take
the course during the year.