Ambiga Sreenevasan

Ambiga Sreenevasan ( born 1956 ) is a Malaysian lawyer and human rights activist. She is a former student of Convent Bukit Nanas, a famous girls' school in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. From 2007 to 2009 she was president of the Malaysian Bar Council, the professional organization representing Malay lawyers.

In 1982, Dato ' Dr. Ambiga Sreenevasan, the law firm, Advocates & Solicitors and has been a practicing lawyer. Currently, Dato ' Ambiga Mediator in the Malaysian Bar Council. She is also a member of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association ( Association of Industrial Property Law Malaysia), the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property ( International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property ), and the Asian Patent Attorneys Association ( Asian Patent Attorneys Association ).

Currently she sits in front of the people's movement for free and fair elections, Bersih 2.0. She was also in the design and the presentation of many memoranda regarding the rule of law, the judiciary, the judicial authority, legal assistance, interfaith dialogue, and many other human rights issues.

Your law school she graduated from the University of Exeter in England. In July 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater awarded.

Honor

March 2009 received Ambiga Sreenevasan as one of eight women to International Women of Courage Award, an award that is awarded annually by the U.S. State Department to women around the world who used to with particular courage for religious tolerance, civil rights and equality of women have. On the occasion of the award ceremony paid tribute to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the winner:

Use for Religious Tolerance

Ambiga Sreenevasan has been used in Malaysia for many years committed to religious freedom. She was among other things, the lawyer of Lina Joy, a Muslim woman who wanted to convert to Christianity. She argued that Article 121 ( 1A) of the Malay Muslims Basic Law does not deprive the freedom of religion. Some Muslim groups threw their action before challenging the Sharia laws, a Anschuldingung which can weigh heavy in some Muslim countries ..

In her role as President of the Malaysian Bar Council Ambiga accepted a memorandum establishing an interfaith Commission, the 14 demands were made. They also held a forum on the Article 121 ( 1A) of the Malaysian Constitution, which deals with Sharia law and deals with the right of Muslims to religious freedom. This forum was met with large protests by conservative Muslims

Bersih 2.0

Ambiga Sreenevasan, the chairperson of the protest movement ' Bersih 2.0 ' ( Cleanliness 2.0). This group invited by the Malaysian Election Commission to ensure clean and free elections. Past elections in Malaysia have often been overshadowed by allegations of fraud. The Commission therefore calls for, inter alia, the revision of the electoral roll, reform the postal ballot law, the use of indelible ink on the extension of the time for election campaigns at least 21 days and equal access of all political parties to the media.

These demands of Bersih were repeatedly dismissed by the Electoral Commission, which refers to the organization as a pawn of the political opposition in the country. The Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Wan Ahmad Wan Omar threw the initiative, " she wanted to overthrow the legitimate government. " In turn Ambiga criticized the conduct of the election commission and urged them to be more political independence.