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GEORGETOWN, Malaysia:We refer to the media statement by Gamuda issued on 16 May, 2023. Gamuda’s defence of its Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project is self-serving and unsustainable. It has a vested interest in the mega reclamation project, expecting to make millions, perhaps billions, of profit. Therefore, its claims of the project benefiting the public must be taken with a pinch of salt.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-CIVICUS speaks about the progress being made towards a United Nations (UN) Treaty on Plastic Pollution with Vito Buonsante, an environmental health lawyer and technical and policy advisor at the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN).

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-B•E•A•CC•H•, the environmental cluster of the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Platform for Reform in Malaysia, commends the government’s move to consider its 2022 Manifesto Rakyat proposal to have the Department of Environment’s appointed independent consultants conduct Environmental Impact Assessments on development projects.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--B•E•A•CC•H•, the environment cluster of the CSO Platform for Reform, along with 21 civil society organisations (CSOs), call upon the Perak Menteri Besar to retract his inaccurate remarks concerning the lanthanide mining project in northern Perak and gazette the entire site in question as a forest reserve.    

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Fifty-three civil society organisations (CSOs) have come together to issue a statement initiated by B•E•A•CC•H•, the environmental cluster of the CSO Platform for Reform in Malaysia to urge the Selangor Menteri Besar, Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari to immediately revoke the degazettement of the Bukit Cherakah Forest Reserve based on a decision made over 22 years ago by the then Barisan Nasional government.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--CIJ strongly condemns the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)’s reported attempt of removing Twitter posts that were critical of the government’s alleged mishandling of the floods situation, especially in most parts of the Klang Valley, Dengkil, and Hulu Langat.