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Due to the extraordinary circumstances in 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pusat KOMAS’ national conference took on a new form. We organised the conference in two parts: the first, a virtual conference on Zoom; the second, a hybrid conference in Sheraton Hotel at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Among the objectives of the conference were to take stock of social cohesion and national harmony in Malaysia, and to engage with stakeholders on racism and its connection with extremism. The...

ASEAN today is deeply muddled by racial and religious issues. Racial and religious signifiers take precedence over other forms of self- and other- identifiers, signifying the deep-seated ethnic and religious identity consciousness among the people. Additionally, the increase in the number of groups championing their ethnic and religious superiority had led to the increase of hate, racial and religious discrimination against minority groups, who...

KOMAS, SUHAKAM and Institute for Development Studies (Sabah) organised the 9th National Conference on Non-Discrimination in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.