2. Material for People With Disabilities – Braille Brochures
The Publication Unit continued to print its various brochures in 2018. The brochure
on Human Rights for All was previously published in Bahasa Malaysia and English.
The publication was expanded to include the Mandarin, Tamil, Iban and Kadazan
languages as well.
As a step towards helping those with visual impairment, the Publication Unit took the
initiative to publish the same brochure in braille which is in Bahasa Malaysia and English.
It is hoped that this will help create awareness to them about their rights.
SUHAKAM is looking forward to translating other brochures into braille, although it is
more expensive to do so, it can help the visually impaired.
The Way Forward
SUHAKAM is encouraged to note the increased interest from Parliament, government
and enforcement agencies, schools, universities, the private sector and general
public, to know more about human rights. This is evident from the increased number of
invitations received by SUHAKAM this year to deliver talks, conduct training as well as to
hold public exhibitions and briefings on general or specific human rights themes. Joint
training programmes with government and UN agencies, the judiciary, and universities
have also increased.
In order to satisfy SUHAKAM’s mandate to promote awareness and provide education
on human rights, SUHAKAM – after a meeting with the Minister of Education on 11
December – will work on how to realise its organisation-wide focus of having “Human
Rights Education (Taught and Practised) in All Schools by 2020”. Towards this goal,
SUHAKAM will expand its Human Rights Best Practices in Schools (ATHAM) Programme
to other schools. SUHAKAM has obtained an agreement from the MOE to expand the
ATHAM programme to another 200 schools in 2019, bringing the total number of schools
involved to 422.
With respect to the completed Human Rights Modules for post-PT3 and -UPSR students,
next year, SUHAKAM will proceed with TOTs involving MOE master trainers. MOE has
agreed for SUHAKAM to train master trainers at the national level, who would then be
tasked to train other trainers at the district level. These trainers would then conduct
training sessions on implementing the modules for the relevant school teachers. In order
to further strengthen the placement of human rights subject in school, SUHAKAM will
also work with MOE to insert human rights issues in civics education.
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