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The human rights commission of malaysia expressed its disappointment that the declaration permits restrictions to be made on grounds wider than what are accepted internationally and pointed especially to general principle 7 which declares on the one hand that all human rights are universal indivisible interdependent and interrelated recognises on the other that member states.
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The international attention on human rights as a result of the success of the 1993 world conference on human rights in vienna where governments including malaysia agreed that human rights are universal and indivisible and they recognized the importance of setting up national human rights institutions also influenced the government. While it took steps toward creating a formal police complaints commission repressive laws limiting the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly remained on the books. The pakatan harapan coalition government struggled to implement human rights reforms as promised in its 2018 election manifesto. Report of the special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights mission to malaysia a hrc 40 53 add 1 report of the special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children including child prostitution child pornography and other child sexual abuse material mission to malaysia a hrc 40 51 add 3.
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