The government is drafting a special Act to establish a fully independent Children’s Commissioner’s Office, which will act as a watchdog on various issues affecting children in Malaysia.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said said it was vital to further empower Children’s Commissioner Farah Nini Dusuki and her office which now operates under the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam).

She said that the office should be...