Date: May 22, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 3pm
to 4.30pm
Venue: Global Movement of
Moderates (15th Floor, Menara Manulife, 6 Jalan Gelenggang Damansara
Heights, Kuala Lumpur
An estimated 6,000
Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, many of them hungry and sick,
are adrift in the Andaman Sea and the Straits of Malacca in boats that had been
abandoned by human traffickers with little food and water.
It has been reported in
the news that after accommodating over 1,000 boat people in Langkawi, any more
boats trying to land would be turned back as a “political matter.”
Whilst any Malaysians
have responded to the humanitarian crisis collecting foodstuff and essentials
for the boat people although it is not clear if these essentials will be taken
to them, there are calls by civil society for Malaysia to take the lead to live
up to this position as chair of Asean and the Intergovernmental Commission on Human
Rights (AICHR) not only to provide humanitarian aid but seek long term
solutions to the plight of refugees particularly the Rohingya , human
trafficking and humanitarian aid. This
is clearly the responsibility of ASEAN.
The RTD will be solution
driven from experts from civil society and UNHCR.
PROGRAM
Welcome &
Introductions by Ms Ivy Josiah (Proham Exco)
Screening of 30 minute
documentary "Seeds of Hatred" by Mahi Ramakrishnan a film about the
plight of Rohingya.
Panel
Discussions (Invited)
Ms. Sumitha & Ms Jessica Low (Coordinators of Migration Working Group)
Mr Zafar Ahmad (Mynamar
Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organisation, Malaysia)
Mr Richard Towle,
(Representative of UNHCR, as current chair of the Human Rights Theme Group of
the UN Country Team).
Datin Paduka Marnia
Mahathair (Social Activist)
Mr Ekraj Sabur, Asian
Muslim Action Network (AMAN), Thailand
Mr Jerald Joseph (ASEAN
People Forum Chair)
Moderators: Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah & Datuk Dr
Denison Jayasooria (Proham). Datuk Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari (Proham Chairman) will say a few concluding words.
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Media will be invited.
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