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The current discussion on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in the media is yet another example of how politicians and social activists adopt positions on issues of public interest without [...]

PRESIDEN Gerakan Keadilan Sedunia (JUST), DR. CHANDRA MUZAFFAR, 71, antara tokoh awal yang mengkritik secara berterusan terhadap penyelewengan dana 1MDB sejak 2015 lagi. “Jelas sesuatu yang tak kena pada tempatnya telah berlaku dan kita kena [...]

One hopes that upholding and enforcing the rule of law will be one of the legacies of Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s leadership. He has emphasised the importance of this fundamental principle of governance over and over again since he assumed the prime [...]

Penguatkuasaan dan mendaulatkan peraturan perundangan adalah satu harapan dalam legasi kepemimpinan Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. Seringkali kepentingan prinsip asas ini ditekankan oleh beliau semasa pemerintahannya sejak 10 Mei 2018 yang lalu. Tidak [...]

In reflecting upon the status of Sabah and Sarawak in the Malaysian Federation during a Malaysia Day celebration at Padang Merdeka Kota Kinabalu on 16 September 2018, Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad made some significant observations which [...]

There is little sense in grading a new government on its performance in its first 100 days in office especially if it has just replaced the world’s longest running coalition in power which had degenerated into a notorious kleptocracy in its last [...]

While issues related to human rights, governance and integrity have been very much in the news since 9th May, Pakatan Harapan’s view of national integration has hardly been discussed. In the coalition’s election manifesto there is a proposal to [...]

The reactivation of the Cabinet Committee on Integrity in Governance with a new name the Cabinet Committee on Anti-Corruption (JKKMAR) is an important step. One of its first decisions was to establish a Centre on Governance, Integrity and Anti- [...]

The appointment of Tommy Thomas as the new Attorney-General has generated renewed interest in the ruling coalition’s   Election Manifesto. In the Manifesto, Pakatan Harapan has articulated lucidly in Janji (promise) 15 the importance of separating [...]

On 21 May 2018, Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad disclosed that Malaysia’s debt has reached more than 1 trillion ringgit. The next day, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng  elaborated that the debt to GDP ratio stood at 80%.  However, he also [...]