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Ambiga Sreenevasan

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In 2008, as President of the Malaysian Bar she played a significant role in the establishing, in collaboration with LAWASIA, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute and Transparency International-Malaysia, of a panel to review the judicial crisis of 1998. The panel issued a report
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Elected in March 2007, Sreenevasan is the second woman to serve as president of the Bar Council. Six months after assuming her leadership, she organised the "March for Justice," in Malaysia's administrative capital, calling for judicial reform and the investigation of a videotape allegedly showing a
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As a result of her attempts to resolve issues that continue to generate inter-ethnic tensions and constitutional problems, Sreenevasan received hate mail, death threats, and had a Molotov cocktail thrown at her house. Hundreds of people from religious groups and conservative members of government
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She is a member of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association and was its vice president in 2002. She is also a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). She headed Bersih 2.0, also called Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, a citizen's
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published "Plot to destabilize government," which accused Bersih and other nongovernment organizations of plotting a conspiracy to destabilise the government using foreign funding. Sreenevasan and fellow Bersih organizers filed for defamation, which resulted in High Court Justice Lee Heng Cheong
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people. She is a director of the Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Centre, and has been involved in the preparation and presentation of papers and memoranda on issues relating to the rule of law, the judiciary, the administration of justice, legal aid, religious conversion, and other human
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Sreenevasan later said that the rally "exploded many myths" in Malaysia, including the notion that people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds could not work together and that the middle class was "too comfortable to step up to the plate."
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Sreenevasan has been a practising advocate and solicitor since March 1982. She is a founding partner of Sreenevasan, Advocates & Solicitors. She had served as the president of Hakam, Malaysia's National Human Rights Society.
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key lawyer fixing judicial appointments and judges' case assignments. Her public actions, and an intense lobbying campaign, led to the formation of a Royal Commission, which called for corrective action.
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ordering the New Straits Times Press (NSTP) to pay damages to the plaintiffs. NSTP also issued an apology admitting the article was "false and without foundation."
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Serving with Chinara Aidarbekova (Kyrgyzstan), Gamal Eid (Egypt), Jamesina Essie L. King (Sierra Leone) and Michael Sfard (Israel)
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that was the first of its kind, setting a precedent for the establishment of panels to inquire into abuses of power.
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in Kuala Lumpur, where she also served as head prefect in 1975. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the
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in Kuala Lumpur that drew 20,000 people. She summed up the main issues raised by Bersih as "unhappiness... in the
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Ambiga Sreenevasan with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama
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Ambiga Sreenevasan speaks at the International Women of Courage Awards ceremony in 2009.
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as well as in the Bar Council Special Committee on the rights of the indigenous
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Dato Ambiga was appointed to the International Commission of Jurists in 2018.
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in 1980. After working in two London law firms, she was admitted to the
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In July 2011, she received an honorary Doctorate in Law (LLD) from the
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Independent Director of Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Centre
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protested at the Bar Council building and called for her arrest.
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Ambiga Sreenevasan As President of Malaysian Bar. July 22, 2011
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movement for free and fair elections. In 2015, she led the
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She previously served in the executive committee of the
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Recipients of the International Women of Courage Award
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Index

Yang Berbahagia Dato'

Malaysian Bar Council
International Commission of Jurists
Incumbent
Bersih 2.0
Maria Chin Abdullah
Steven Thiru
Steven Thiruneelakandan
Hon Kai Ping
National Human Rights Society (HAKAM)
Incumbent
Incumbent
Council of Elders
Mahathir Mohamad
Seremban
Negeri Sembilan
Federation of Malaya
Malaysia
S. S. Vasan
Alma mater
University of Exeter
International Women of Courage Award
University of Exeter
University of Exeter
Legion of Honour

Dato'
Tamil
human rights

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