The Constitution fully guarantees the community rights and stipulates that state and the private sector have to undertake a process whereby the community rights, such as the rights to have access to information and to participate in the environment and health impact assessmentof a project that might affect the community, can be protected. The government, however, has not taken any action to give effect to these rights. This is the case with the Mab Ta Pud community which has been severely affected by industrial pollution for a protracted period. Without a proper mechanism to protect the community rights, the problem has deteriorated and a Committee to Solve the Problem Relating to the Implementation of Section 67,
Paragraph 2, of the Constitution, composed of representatives of relevant government departments, the private sector, the affected community members and the academia, has to be set up on an ad hoc basis to allow all stakeholders to work together to find appropriate solutions to the problem. The government, however, did not honour the
Committee’s recommendations and the Mab Ta Pud people had to file a complaint with the NHRCT. Community leaders who rally against large industrial projects often face a life threatening situation, some of them having been killed while the culprits have not been prosecuted.
The Constitution fully guarantees the community rights and stipulates that state and the private sector have to undertake a process whereby the community rights, such as the rights to have access to information and to participate in the environment and health impact assessmentof a project that might affect the community, can be protected. The government, however, has not taken any action to give effect to these rights. This is the case with the Mab Ta Pud community which has been severely affected by industrial pollution for a protracted period. Without a proper mechanism to protect the community rights, the problem has deteriorated and a Committee to Solve the Problem Relating to the Implementation of Section 67,
Paragraph 2, of the Constitution, composed of representatives of relevant government departments, the private sector, the affected community members and the academia, has to be set up on an ad hoc basis to allow all stakeholders to work together to find appropriate solutions to the problem. The government, however, did not honour the
Committee’s recommendations and the Mab Ta Pud people had to file a complaint with the NHRCT. Community leaders who rally against large industrial projects often face a life threatening situation, some of them having been killed while the culprits have not been prosecuted.
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