Chapter 1 - Report of the Education and Public Relations Group
Members of the Commission with recipients of the Human Rights Awards 2013
4. SUHAKAM-UNCT PANEL DISCUSSION
The Commission, in collaboration with the UNCT, organised a Panel Discussion on ‘Road to
2020: Human Rights and Development’ on 10 December, in conjunction with World Human
Rights Day. The event attracted 120 participants from the civil service, diplomatic missions,
corporations, NGOs, UN agencies and the media.
Ms Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UN Resident Coordinator in Malaysia, delivered the opening
remarks. Dr Chandra Muzaffar, the President of the International Movement for a Just World,
moderated the panel discussion.
The five panellists were Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Movement
of Moderates Foundation; Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Michael Yeoh, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute; Datuk Dr Khaw Lake Tee, the Vice-Chair of the
Commission; Mr Daniel Lo Soo Jeng, Special Officer on Human Rights in the Office of YB Senator
Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department; and Mr Jerald Joseph,
Director of the Pusat KOMAS. The Commission’s Chairman, Tan Sri Hasmy Agam, delivered the
closing remarks.
Panellists at the SUHAKAMUNCT Discussion on ‘Road
to 2020: Human Rights and
Development’
The event provided a platform to discuss integration of human rights into the national
development agenda, and affirmed that human rights and development are mutually reinforcing
and complementary.
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