The Pakatan Harapan government needs to improve on how it explains human rights reforms to all segments of the rakyat before rolling them out, PKR president Anwar Ibrahim said.

At a question-and-answer session during a talk show aired on television last night, he warned against “assuming” that people already understood the government’s intentions.

Anwar pointed to the recent U-turns on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Icerd) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute) as examples of endeavours derailed by misunderstandings...