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Instagram to promote human rights, especially to their followers. They
said they could be vigilant of human rights abuses and report them to
the authorities and SUHAKAM. They added that they could elect prohuman rights leaders or representatives; educate youngsters on human
rights through social responsibility programmes; and, form human rights
clubs in their schools and universities.
The students shared their opinions during the discussion and answered
the questions posed by the speakers. Among the issues they raised
were the Malaysian government’s stance on the death penalty and
corporal punishment, and freedom of religion. They also touched on the
measures taken by the United Nations (UN) on countries that violated
human rights and the ineffectiveness of the UN system.
10. Invitation to deliver human rights talk and training
In 2019, SUHAKAM received several invitations from government agencies
and other organisations to deliver talks and training on specific and
general human rights topics. The details of the sessions are as in the Table 1.
Table 1: List of ad-hoc human rights talks and training in 2019
No.
Topic
Date
Venue
1.
Half-day human rights
talk to Sime Darby officers
organised by Sime Darby.
23 January
Sime Darby Office,
Ara Damansara,
Selangor.
2.
Human Rights training for
prison officials at Penor
Prison organised by Penor
Prison.
29 January
Penor Prison,
Kuantan, Pahang.
3.
Human Rights talks on ‘The
Roles of the Commission
in Human Rights issue in
Malaysia’ and ‘Current
Human Rights Issues’ for
the Police Basic Training
Programme under the
Inspector Cadet Basic
Course No. 4, series
3/2018 organised by Royal
Malaysia Police.
19 February
Police Training
Centre, Kuala
Lumpur.