Navi Pillay: People Need to be Treated Equally

By Cheah Wui Jia

April 2017 PENANG PROFILE
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Access to this article is open for a limited time only. For unlimited access, subscribe here.In March, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and judge Navi Pillay delivered a public lecture organised by Penang Institute titled “Affirmative Action and Human Rights: Who Wins and Who Loses”. Here, we present touches of Pillay’s inspirational life and her views on the state of human rights in Malaysia.Navi PillayE.E. Cummings said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”...

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Cheah Wui Jia

teaches English at Han Chiang College. She enjoys looking at how individual interpretations of texts are mediated by language, relationships of power and societal structures.


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