KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) expressed disappointment today that the Malaysian government could not answer many questions posed by a United Nations (UN) committee on women’s rights, indicating a lack of progress on ending gender discrimination.
Suhakam said the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (Cedaw) that Malaysia has ratified, observed that Malaysia had yet to implement many concluding recommendations by the UN women’s rights committee since 2006.
“The government delegation was firmly reminded by the committee to take more seriously Malaysia’s responsibilities with respect to reporting to the treaty body, and that reporting to the committee after 12 years was not in the best interest of progress,” Suhakam said in a statement. Read more