Chapter 1 – Report of the Policy, Law and Complaints Group
NO.
RIGHT ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN
INFRINGED/ALLEGED ABUSE OF RIGHT
KUALA SABAH SARAWAK
LUMPUR
6.
Arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile
18
7.
Equality before the law/right to a fair and
public hearing
1
8.
Right to privacy
1
9.
Freedom of movement
2
10.
Right to seek asylum and refugee status
24
11.
Right to nationality
8
79
12.
Right to own property
2
2
13.
Freedom of thought, conscience and
religion
5
14.
Freedom of opinion and expression
1
15.
Right to peaceful assembly
2
16.
Freedom of association
1
17.
Right to work/employment and migrant
workers’ rights
10
18.
Right to rest and leisure
3
19.
Right to adequate standard of living (food,
clothing, housing, healthcare)
12
6
20.
Right to education
1
2
21.
Environmental rights
6
1
6
22.
Right to native customary land
9
31
7
23.
Children’s rights
1
24.
Others
8
1
1
136
24
TOTAL
4.
INQUIRIES INTO COMPLAINTS
(a)
Union ‘Busting’
173
10
2
10
2
Pursuant to a memorandum sent to the Commission in 2014 pertaining to allegations of
infringement of the right of workers to unionise, and guided by Article 23(4) of the UDHR
which guarantees that everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the
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