Journey of Our Group Assignment

I would say that by doing this group assignment, I have gained so much extra knowledge that cannot be learned academically. Our group named "We Don't Care", have chosen to focus on the absence of knowledge of human rights among the Malaysian citizens nowadays, based on the case of custody death of Teoh Beng Hock. 

On 22/7/2016 (Friday), my groupmates and I went to Publika for the "Remembrance as Resistance: Human Rights Exhibition" event. To our disappointment, we went there hoping to attend some talks about human rights or to interview some organizers of this event but unfortunately on this first day (event last for 3 days), it only had art exhibition. However we did not give up. We successfully asked for the contact of the organizer of this event. 

This was my first time attending an art exhibition. It really helps to raise awareness of human rights by looking at the arts.

Group picture with the staff that gave info to us

One of my most favourite art and its caption. [I did not manage to capture the arts ):]

During the first interview, with Tricia Yeoh, the Chief Operating Officer of IDEAS, I was not able to make it due to personal reason.

However, I join the second interview, with Wong Siew Yun, the vice secretary of Teoh Beng Hock Trust for Democracy. During this interview, I got to know more about human rights and the importance of it and how it may affect our daily life. Special thanks to Dr. Andrew who came and visited us and gave us some suggestions before interviewing Wong Siew Yun.

Wong Siew Yun also encourages us to join some activities related to human rights that organized by Teoh Beng Hock Trust for Democracy when we are free. 

Group photo with Wong Siew Yun (middle)

   
And at last, we decided to narrow down our topics of human rights to UTAR-ian (student) rights. Therefore, we have made an appointment with the president of SRC of UTAR, Ng Zi Kent to have an interview session in UTAR. He also provided us a lot of information of our student rights (which I really had no idea of what's our student rights) and what has SRC done to help the students to execute their rights. 

Really, I think we have chosen the right topic and I am interested in this topic.