
Too little, too late done to combat human trafficking
Last Friday, the US State Department
downgraded
Malaysia, together with Thailand and Venezuela, to the lowest ‘tier 3' status in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports, as the world’s worst centres of human trafficking. This came after the State Department found that the Malaysian government has shown no significant effort to comply with the minimum standards for elimination of trafficking.
ADUN SPEAKS
Why confine them to council-owned buildings and the court complex, given the need to protect folk against crime?
ADUN SPEAKS
The federal government’s copycat plan to restrict free flow of information in cyberspace only shows how ‘kiasu’ it is.