Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for Asia, Phil Robertson, speaks during a press conference in Petaling Jaya May 8, 2019. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
“This is what we said to Malaysia. We said look, we understand you have some misgivings, but go ahead and ratify and then sort it out later, but they were not listening. They were not prepared and so when the debate on ICERD came out, there was no response that they could bring out because they hadn’t thought it through.
Robertson said the ICERD concession has emboldened the two Malay-Muslim political parties to demand other things that risk Malaysia’s human rights record internationally.
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