Despite the best efforts of spin doctors and ‘strategic teams’, the ‘noises’ and the scandals are extremely difficult for the regime to shut off, leading to much consternation and increasing desperation in the corridors of power, observes Zaharom Nain. Continue reading »
2010 Civil society voices
The Peleiran-Murum Penan Affairs Committee has called on the government to revoke provisional leases to plantation firms at the Murum Dam catchment area. Continue reading »
A Sarawak environmental network has condemned the hasty impoundment of the Bakun Dam and called upon the government and Sarawak Hidro to first put in place a security and emergency plan. Continue reading »
The Baram Protection Action Committee would like to refute the statement made by Councillor Dennis Ngau which was published in the Borneo Post dated 5 November 2010. Continue reading »
While supporting the ban on throwaway plastic bags, Kanda Kumar points out that this move alone is not going to reduce our carbon footprint by that much. Continue reading »
The outcome of the Cancun climate change talks is nothing more than the reproduction of the anti-democratic and completely inadequate Copenhagen Accord, observes Climate Justice Now in a report. Continue reading »
Stop the ‘flood’ of corporate seeds in the agricultural reconstruction of Pakistan, urge activists from three international groups. Continue reading »
Miti sepatutnya berwaspada dengan rundingan EU-Malaysia FTA. Janganlah terburu-buru menandatangani perjanjian dengan EU kerana dalam FTA, pihak korporat boleh membawa kita ke mahkamah, ujar Jeyakumar Devaraj. Continue reading »
The Malaysian government must immediately end the practice of judicial caning, which subjects thousands of people each year to systematic torture and ill-treatment, leaving them with permanent physical and psychological scars, Amnesty International said in a new report. Continue reading »
Activists from the Anti-FTA Coalition gathered on 3 Dec 2010 at the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum registering their concern over Malaysia’s plan to enter into free trade agreement negotiations. Continue reading »