ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship Anti-SLAPP and Whistleblowers Protection information as to the wrongdoing of any company Malaysia recognizes HRDs as well as their rights afforded by Whistleblower Protection Act is limited and responsibilities through the UN Declaration to disclosures made to a law enforcement agency on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, including any ministry, department, agency or other Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and body set up by the Federal Government or State Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Government. Moreover, the whistleblower protection Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by the UN General could be limited in several circumstances enshrined Assembly in 1998. Malaysia also acknowledges the in Section 11(1). For instance, any disclosure of UN General Assembly Resolution 70/161 on HRDs, improper conduct which is “frivolous or vexatious,” adopted in 2015, with Malaysia voting in favour. or improper conduct that “principally involves the Nonetheless, there is no anti-SLAPP law to protect merits of government policy, including policy of a HRDs and activists from lawsuits. Additionally, public body,” is excluded from protection. As is the Malaysia enacted the 2010 Whistleblower Protection common pattern with these laws, “improper conduct” Act is loosely defined, thus enabling its misapplication.135 133 Malaysia 132 which protects any person who provides or its directors.134 Nonetheless, the protection 171