Archive for the 'Economic Rights' Category

Merdeka…Merdeka…Merdeka…. UNTUK SIAPA ?

Tanggal 31 Bulan Ogos 2009 merupakan Hari Kemerdekaan ke 52 untuk Malaysia. Satu negara sibuk menyambut kemerdekaan ini, dengan bendera, lampu bewarna warni, shopping dan tidak lupa lagu patrotik.
Tetapi apakah signifikan kemerdekaan untuk rakyat biasa ? Adakah rakyat negara ini betul-betul dapat mengecapi kemerdekaan?
49 tahun negara ini dikawal dengan penggunaan AKTA [...]

AIR: Hak Asasi Rakyat, Jangan Niagakannya!

Air merupakan suatu keperluan asas untuk manusia terus hidup. Apa yang kita perlukan hanyalah satu pihak yang bertanggungjawab untuk menguruskan perkhidmatan air bersih, jernih dan selamat kepada rakyat. Perkhidmatan ini harus diberikan secara percuma atau dengan kos yang paling minima. Persoalan membekalkan air adalah semudah ini sahaja.
Namun demikian, perkara ini menjadi rumit apabila keperluan asas [...]

Join the indigenous community to hand a memorandum on their rights
Central Market, KL

On 13 September 2008, the world will celebrate the first year anniversary of the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP). Over 370 million indigenous people in 70 countries are affected by this declaration which recognises our right to our distinct social,] cultural, economic and political identities.
On Nov. 7, 2007, less than [...]

Budget 2009: Indians excluded from mainstream development of Malaysia yet again even after 51 years of Merdeka (Independence).

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced a RM 207.9 Billion Budget in Parliament on 29/08/08 [NST 30/08/08 at page 1 to 6]. The poorest people deserving the most assistance has been acknowledged by UMNO as the Orang Asli, the natives of Sabah and Sarawak, the poor Malays especially in the east coast and the Indians. [...]

Press Statement by Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower)

More to do on the state of human rights in Malaysia
Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower) is disappointed with the speech of the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak delivered on his behalf by the Minister of Tourism, Datuk Seri Azalina Othman, at the opening of the 13th Asia Pacific Forum (APF) in Kuala [...]

Job Opening: Consumers International Project Co-ordinator in Malaysia

Consumers International
London
Salary: 22,000 per year including benefits ( 2 years contract ). For candidates who must relocate, moving and related comparability costs would be covered
Consumers International is the global campaigning voice of consumers protecting consumer rights and uniting consumer organisations in the struggle to change the world for the good of [...]

CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES PRESS STATEMENT

Ensure Policies Provide Fair Economic Opportunity to all Malaysians
The Centre for Public Policy Studies does not share the view of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s assertion that the government’s drive for restructuring the country’s economy will not be to the detriment of the non-Bumiputera communities. The government’s redistribution policies have always been predicated on [...]

INTERNATIONAL FACT FINDING MISSION FOR NCR LAND RIGHTS

28 April 2008
The continued arrest of indigenous community leaders by the police, acting in collusion with plantation companies in Sarawak must stop immediately. The recent arrests of five community leaders in the Kg. Wawasan area with trumped up charges organized by the company with the support of the police reflects the high handedness in which [...]

Open Letter To ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting, Grand Hyatt, Bangkok, Thailand 6th -7th May, 2008

We, migrants from Burma, who currently live and work in Malaysia and Thailand, have recently met and discussed the situation of migrant workers. We work as construction workers, domestic workers, factory workers, fisherfolk, migrant health workers and plantation workers. We, the migrant workers of ASEAN, have contributed to the building of ASEAN communities but our [...]

JARINGAN RAKYAT TERTINDAS: AFTER 20 YEARS WAITING… MEETING WITH INCH KENNETH KAJANG IN TWO WEEKS TIME

“We want 4 acres land and a meeting with Inch Kenneth Kajan



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