B. PROMOTION AND OUTREACH OVERVIEW During the year, SUHAKAM continued to raise human rights awareness in Malaysia through community dialogues, advocacy campaigns and empowerment workshops involving members of the public, plantation communities, Islamic religious authorities and youths. SUHAKAM also embarked on an advertising project through broadcast media and public transit. 1. PROTECTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT SUHAKAM continued to raise public awareness of United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) through the development of an educational animation. The aim was to promote greater public understanding of the convention and the benefits for Malaysia to become a State Party in preventing acts of torture and other forms of ill-treatment against any individual. This animation, produced in Bahasa Malaysia and supported with English subtitles, is available on SUHAKAM’s YouTube Channel and social media sites, namely Facebook and Twitter. SUHAKAM also undertook the initiative to translate the full text of UNCAT into Malay and subsequently published a bilingual (Malay-English) UNCAT booklet with funding from the European Union (EU). SUHAKAM will use this booklet as a resource to help promote understanding of UNCAT and its principal obligations to policymakers prior to Malaysia’s ratification of the convention. Following the launch of the ‘Cartoonists against Torture’ art exhibition, which was funded by the EU in July 2019, SUHAKAM and the Sarawak State Library organised a similar cartoon exhibition at the Sarawak State Library from 1-30 September. The exhibition featured a collection of artworks by local and international cartoonists. While the ACT4CAT Coalition, in which SUHAKAM is a campaign partner, deferred a series of campaign activities due to the pandemic, the coalition employed artwork and social media platform as mediums to create public conversation on the arrests of MCO offenders and undocumented migrants in the country. These issues included, among others, overcrowding 10 ANNUAL REPORT 2020