Malaysia is a democratic country. As a democracy, freedom of speech is certainly among the main issues to debate the various parties in the country. Every citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression as provided for by Article 10 (1) of the Federal Constitution. But human rights are not absolute because freedom will be blocked if it is contrary to the constitution and the law in this country. According to article 10 (1) (a) every citizen is entitled to freedom of speech and
INTRODUCTION In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), freedom of speech falls under the Article 19 which is the freedom of opinion and expression. It protects one’s freedom ‘to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers’ (The United Nations, 1948). Article 19(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) adds that the freedom of expression could be ‘either orally, in writing or in
Richards (2013), on the April 30, 2008, Sir David Attenborough, one of the BBC’s longest-serving host, lectures on the future of Public Service broadcasting whereby he has criticized the BBC for airing too many lifestyle TV programmes. During the speech about public service broadcasting, the veteran wildlife presenter condemned the corporation for failing to support shows about science such as Tomorrow's World. Here, he further argued that broadcasting should not be editorially controlled by government
system which is a mixture of two or more legal system. Malaysia practices the mixed legal system which consists of the Customary Law, Islamic Law and Common Law. There are two different sources of law in Malaysia which are the Written Law and Unwritten Law. The most
The constitution of Malaysia was drafted based on the reference made by the Reid Commission and the reference was submitted in a constitutional conference which was held in London in February 1956. Along with other nation’s constitutions, the Federal Constitution was to be in the ambit of the constitutional ideas. The Federal Constitution was accepted and declared as the highest law of the land. Similarly, the Federal Constitution is premised on the concept of the constitution being a "higher law"
after the incident of May 1969 also known as May 13 incident, the darkest history after independence of Malaysia. This Sedition Act is to criminalise any questioning on citizenship (Part 3), national language (Article 152), special position of Malays and the rights of other races (Article 153) and the Rulers’ sovereignty (Article 181) of the Federal Constitution. This act also limited the freedom of expression especially sensitive politic issue. What is seditious tendency? A seditious tendency is
with CEDAW. Moreover, the law does not sufficiently promote and protect women 's rights to basic equality. Myanmar was invited to become a member of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN in 1967. The ASEAN member countries are Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Among with them, Laos and Thailand are neighboring countries with Myanmar. Thus, there is a need to review the Myanmar 's current rape laws, require to highlight
DEFINITION Defamation can be defined as the act of making a false statement about a person that is likely to damage their reputation in the community. In other words, defamation is the publication of a statement or words in that it tends to lower the person in the estimation of right- thinking members of society, generally by making society shun or avoid them. In simpler terms, defamation generally means the act of damaging someone’s reputation or livelihood. Defamation law is complicated because
successful philosophy has been also recognized and implemented in other industries such as rail and coach operators, hotels or car rental providers (Budd & Ison, 2014). 3.2. Characteristics of low cost carriers Even though a universally accepted definition of low cost carriers doesn´t exist, they generally can be distinguished by the other airlines because of the fact that they have a common cost-reduction strategy on these elements: • Single aircraft fleet: using only one type of aircraft they can
Introduction The present research is devoted to “Mass Media Language Peculiarities”. It represents very interesting investigation from theoretical and practical point of view. Due to increasing importance of mass media in effective information transmission, spreading and exchange in the present-day world, its language together with its linguistic, and extra linguistic peculiarities has become the subject of study of not only linguistics and journalism, but it has drawn the attention of psycholinguistics