An Amendment to the Evidence Act has recently been passed through parliament. Curious to know more?

On World Press Freedom Day, show your support and make your voices heard in a Fweet (Facebook and Twitter!) in 3 steps.

In conjunction with Data Privacy Day on 28 Jan 2011, we held a public forum to raise awareness of the increasing threat to privacy with regard to personal information, and the lack of protection in Malaysia although Parliament recently passed the Data Protection Act. Funnily enough, the day after the forum, reportedly 1.5 million Malaysians received a surprise text message or e-greeting from the prime minister, underscoring one of the conclusions in our forum – how the collusion between business and State undermines the power of the individual to protect their data.

No, it’s not about whether Anwar Ibrahim was really guilty of sodomy, or that Singaporean officials think the Altantuya murder continues to haunt our prime minister’s tenure. The really relevant issues raised by WikiLeaks that needed to be discussed are media freedom, freedom of speech, access to information, privacy and security, all of which CIJ’s forum sought to address, especially in the Malaysian context. Documented here – in both condensed and full reports – FYI.

CIJ director Sonia Randhawa’s analysis of the Selangor Freedom Of Information (FOI) enactment tabled on 13 July 2010, published by The Nut Graph. EVEN as the Selangor government is being lauded for introducing freedom of information (FOI) legislation in the state, much is lacking in the Pakatan Rakyat-led government’s enactment. Indeed, the Selangor government may [...]

The Selangor state government has tabled a Freedom of Information (FOI) enactment and is inviting public feedback, which will be collated and studied by a Select Committee before the bill is tabled for third reading in April 2011. CIJ is making available the state’s bill and the civil society’s version. Click into the article to [...]

CIJ is pleased to welcome community journalists from Sabah who are in Kuala Lumpur for a study tour from 17 to 20 June 2010. The guests are winners of the Sabah Youth Writing Competition, a 12-month project to train youths in Kota Kinabalu, Tawau and Sandakan, to write about their issues. More than 100 youths [...]

Come join our ‘Forum Theatre’ on 13 June 2010, Sunday at noon-1pm, at the Annexe Gallery, Central Market Annexe, Kuala Lumpur. Recently, a journalist was courageous enough to resign AND go public over self-censorship in the media organisation he works for. This sparked off a series of supportive civil society actions, from pseudo flash mobs [...]

It's our intern Samantha Brown's last day at CIJ.       We have been very fortunate to have her for five months. For one thing, she has gamely taken on all tasks we asked of her – including manual labour. Yeah, don't let that dimunitive size fool you; hidden in those skinny arms are [...]

Journalists were among those killed and injured in the midst of the Thai government action against the Red Shirts protesters. The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) has written to the Thai embassy in Kuala Lumpur urging for greater protection for journalists and to enable an environment of free media to help resolve the conflict. It [...]