Suhakam to address five areas of LGBT discrimination
Suhakam has identified five categories in which the LGBT community faces discrimination in Malaysia, said Suhakam commissioner Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh.
“Suhakam has completed a two-year research on this issue. The research involved 100 respondents.
Suhakam has identified five categories in which the LGBT community faces discrimination in Malaysia, said Suhakam commissioner Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh (above).
“Suhakam has completed a two-year research on this issue. The research involved 100 respondents.
“Based on our findings, this community is discriminated on five major issues which are dignity, employment, education, healthcare and right to housing,” she said during a press conference at the launch of Suhakam’s annual report 2017 in Kuala Lumpur today.
Nik Salida said Suhakam is not supporting same-sex marriage or anything that goes against the culture and beliefs in the country but is working to eliminate discrimination against the LGBT community in these five areas.
They are in discussions with various agencies including enforcement bodies on how to tackle this issue, she added.
Her fellow Suhakam commissioner Lok Yim Pheng also revealed that the commission had come up with a human rights module to be applied in schools so that educators and students can learn more about human rights.
“Since one of Suhakam’s function is education and awareness regarding human rights, we came up with a pilot project and we have developed a human rights module for post-UPSR and PT3.
“With those programs, we find that we are able to reach out to a number of teachers in schools to enable them to know what are human rights and enable them to disseminate that knowledge to students,” she said.
Lok added this pilot project was tested in 2017 and has since been brought to five zones throughout Malaysia in 2018.
The commission will continue with this program next year and aims to target five million students eventually.
This program, she said, is to encourage a culture of human rights in Malaysia.
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