Malaysia’s 2016 UPR Mid-Term Review:
- Prepared by the Coalition of Malaysian NGO’s in the UPR Process (COMANGO)
The mid-term report details the assessment of the implementation of a total of 60 UPR recommendations which Malaysia had accepted which are deemed specific and measurable. Among these recommendations, only 20% were fully implemented by the government. More worryingly, 57% of these recommendations have witnessed a regressing situation of increasing violations of human rights, and a trend of growing impunity.
COMANGO calls on the government to take its UPR commitments seriously and carry out efforts to include as many relevant stakeholders as possible. The UPR should be an open and participatory process where the government works together with rights-based civil society organisations, the national human rights commission, and international bodies to reach a common goal of improving the human rights conditions on the ground.
UPR is a mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council aimed at improving the human rights situation on the ground of each of the 193 member states of the United Nations. In Malaysia’s context, government representatives will be scrutinized through a process of peer review in 2018, which by then will be its 3rd UPR cycle thus far.
Link: FULL REPORT