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RIGHTS Group (RIGHTS) is an independent strategic think-tank and charity organization focusing on governance, human rights and social justice issues. RIGHTS, an abbreviation for Regional Initiatives for Governance, Human Rights and Social Justice, was established by Yusmadi Yusoff, a lawyer and former Member of Parliament of Balik Pulau, Malaysia meant to be a platform for the talents in the region to collaborate for the rights of the people.

Approaches
RIGHTS adopts three prong strategic approaches i.e. law, diplomacy, and charity. It is within its belief that a strategic advice is a combination of a legally sound and a diplomatically effective recommendation, which is positively accepted by the target recipient.

Initiatives
RIGHTS Initiatives consist of 3 strategic initiatives :
 * 1) RIGHTS Law
 * 2) RIGHTS Enterprise
 * 3) RIGHTS Foundation

RIGHTS Law
RIGHTS Law is an initiative to assemble talents specializing in human rights to collaborate for the promotion and protection of the rights of the people. This network is a catalyst in promoting constructive engagement and interaction, which can be translated into ‘legal assistance’ pertaining to matters of regional concern.

Operating on the regional plane, this assembly of talents understand their own community and are motivated to address the problems of the people that they subsist with. It is salutary to note that certain issues could not be dealt with lawyers in the local region; instead such matters require cross-border intervention from regional talents, such as issues concerning haze, immigrants, and intercultural issues amongst others.

Participants are invited to the network on an individual basis, instead of focusing on the organization or entities that they represent.

RIGHTS Enterprise
RIGHTS Enterprise is a multidiscipline RIGHTS-development solution. It helps individuals, organisations and governments to come up with RIGHTS solutions, including property rights, intellectual property rights, rights to education, rights for the disabled, and right to information amongst others.

RIGHTS Enterprise consists of a group of lawyers and talents trained to address your pertinent issues, suggest relevant policies, legislations, provide training and organize capacity-building programs. It is our conviction that local talents are most familiar with the problems of their own community. With this belief, its services are specifically tailored to suit the mould of exclusive regions, its indigenous elements and cultural heritage.

Aims
RIGHTS Enterprise plans to propose a regional RIGHTS mechanism pursuant to Section 14 of the ASEAN Charter, which provides a purpose of the ASEAN to “promote an ASEAN identity through the fostering of greater awareness of the diverse culture and heritage of the region.”

As such it carries an obligation to protect and promote human rights inclusive of the multicultural differences and richness of heritage of our region.

RIGHTS Foundation
RIGHTS Foundation (RIGHTS) is an independent non-profit organization founded with a vision of establishing the first homegrown regional development organization to utilize the talents in the region, especially those who are familiar with, understand and appreciate the peculiarity and uniqueness of indigenous elements in the region. RIGHTS is charitable trust incorporated under Trustees (Incorporation) Act 1952 of Malaysia on 4th June 2013.

Appreciating Uniqueness
Against the backdrop of the existing sensitivities and unique cultural elements with this multi-cultural and diverse region, RIGHTS understands that leaders, thinkers and policy makers from the respective communities must be brought together and have a platform to meet, learn, innovate ideas and ultimately find solutions these challenges.

The foundation promotes constructive engagement and interaction on the issues of Governance, Human Rights and Social Justice in the region (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘ RIGHTS issues’) through forums, seminars, advocacy work, dialogues and publications.

In providing research and educational information to stakeholders (being interested person(s), groups or organizations) and public in general, RIGHTS aims to organize any appropriate activities and to take pertinent measures in support of the purpose of the trust.

By running, organizing, facilitating and enabling educational programmes pursuant to the trust objectives, RIGHTS aspires to improve regional policies and decision making through research, analysis and engagement.

Scope of RIGHTS
In promoting this belief, the thrust of RIGHTS programs shall be on three (3) basic characteristics, which we believe shape the basis of a dynamic, productive, mature and confident democratic nation, namely:

The IDEA of RIGHTS – universality of the human quest to be free from oppression and intimidation, recognizing the dignity of man

THE INSTITUTION OF RIGHTS – rule of law, free and fair elections, accountability etc

RIGHTS HIDDEN HANDS – the primary of choice and the drive to compete

Programs

 * RIGHTS Village
 * RIGHTS ASEAN
 * RIGHTS Forum