1. Pablo Calleja and Alvaro Caballero 3ºC
MALAYSIA
Pablo Calleja and Alvaro Caballero 3ºC

2. Introduction: Physical and Cultural Geography
Malaysia is located in the southeast of Asia, and it has frontiers with Thailand, the island of Borneo and the South China Sea.
There are around thirty one million people living in this country and it has approximately three hundred and thirty thousand square kilometres.
In Malaysia there are four different ethnic groups: Malay 50%, Chinese 22%, Indigenous 11%, Indian 6% and other groups 8%. The religion followed in Malaysia is the Sunni Islam
The language spoken in this country is the Bahasa Malaysia.
Compare to the US, in Malaysia you would be 57.53% less likely to be unemployed.

3. Introduction: History of the country and government
At the beginning Malaysia was a Britain territory but due to the constant wars in the country after the Second World War Malaysia decided to became an independent country in 1963, forming the Malaysian Federation.
The Malaysian government is a constitutional monarchy and which includes states and federal territories. The central government has it’s base in Putrajaya, headed by the prime minister of Malaysia Najib Razak.

4. Introduction: Economy
In Malaysia, the economy has growth considerately from 1980 to nowadays. At the beginning, in 1970 they started producing raw materials but thanks to Mahathir Mohamad, there were some economic reforms which transformed Malaysia into a multi-sector economy and put them in the road of the economic recoveries.
Nowadays, in Malaysia there are some important changes above lower oil prices, the falling value of the ringgit and a slowdown in economic growth.

5. Introduction: Violations of Human Rights
I am only going to talk about three human rights that are violated in Malaysia. (The liberty of expression, the liberty of meeting and associating and police abuse and impunity.)
But there are a lot more such as : refugees and homeless people , death penalty, social orientation or gender identity or home searching people.)

6. 1.Liberty of expression:(article 10)
Intensification of liberty of expression and other political and civil rights ( in 2015)
A law against sedition was approved and also one to prevent terrorism.
After the approvement of this laws police and authorities found like an excuse to be more violent and arrest more people.
An example of this happened in 2015 when three journalists were arrested because an article that they published. This article talked about a project of law that included corporal punishments.

7. 2.Right to peaceful assembly and association(article 20)
Through the years laws have been created and used against people who organized pacific protests or took part in them.
Those people are accused of “being damaging for the parliamentary system” and some of them are arrested.
The law gives the minister of home issues the right to declare any protest illegal and cancel it.

8. 3.Police abuse and impunity
Policemen torture and are very violent with people that are in jail or in custody and sometimes these acts end with a death.
The home minister Ahmad Zahid promised to settle cameras in all places of police detention, even though 10 deaths were registered in 9 months since he said that.
Malaysian citizens are asking for a committee to receive complains about the behaviour of the police and to sanction the ones that do not do their job well.

9. Exercise: Answer to the following questions:
Which is the religion followed in Malaysia?
What is the type of government in Malaysia?
Which is the currency of Malaysia?
Are there only two human rights violated in Malaysia? Give some examples

10. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!!
And we hope you have learned something!!

11. Web pages links:
Here we have put the links of some of the pages we have researched in order to do our project: