Keynote Speaker
Irene Fernandez
Irene Fernandez
Irene Fernandez is a director and co-founder of the non-governmental organization called Tenaganita which promotes the right of the poorest, migrant workers and other oppressed people. She was born in 1946 and a mum to three children and several foster children. She has been arrested in 1996 and charged with 'maliciously publishing false news' due to her report entitled, "Abuse, Torture and Dehumanised Conditions of Migrant Workers in Detention Centres" in 1995 and found guilty in 2003 after 7 years of trial and convicted to one year imprisonment. However, she never gives up to fight and stand up for the human rights. She is one kind of the whistleblowers that Malaysia need.
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