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Pitfalls in regulating race relations

By Deborah Loh

Will the proposed Race Relations Act outlaw discrimination?  (Source: jpnin.gov.my) IS the proposed Race Relations Act doomed to fail even before it has been drafted? Human rights advocates, lawyers and academics who recently attended a roundtable on the proposed act seem to think so. The act, which was proposed by the government in September 2008, […]