Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan (born 1956) is a Malaysian lawyer who served as resident of the Malaysian Bar Council from 2007 to 2009. She is a former student of Convent Bukit Nanas and served as Head Prefect in 1975.
Dato’ Ambiga has been a practising Advocate and Solicitor since March 1982. She is a founding partner of Sreenevasan, Advocates & Solicitors.
She was also a panelist of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration under the Malaysian Network Information Centre Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“MYDRP”) from 2006 to 2009. She was Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Sub-Committee of the Bar Council from September 2005 to March 2006. She was Vice President of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association in 2002.
Currently, Dato’ Dr. Ambiga is a Mediator on the Panel of the Bar Council, Malaysian Mediation Centre. She is also Co-chairperson of the Bar Council Committee on Orang Asli Rights and a member of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Aid Organisation. She is a member of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), as well as the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APPA). She also heads Bersih 2.0, a citizen’s movement for free and fair elections. She is Director of the Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Centre. She has been involved in drafting and presenting of several papers and memoranda on issues relating to the rule of law, the judiciary, administration of justice, legal aid, religious conversion and other human rights issues.
Dato’ Dr. Ambiga holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of Exeter, England.[4] In July 2011, She was conferred honorary doctorate in law by University of Exeter.[5]
She was one of eight recipients of the US Secretary of State “International Women of Courage” Award in 2009.
And, what about Ambiga's father, Dr. G. Sreenevasan, who they labeled "a low class pariah Indian laborer"?
Tribute to Dr.G.Sreenevasan, founder HKL’s Urology and Nephrology Dept but Malaysian Indian doctors degrees derecognized
February 5, 2010
Author s.jayathas
Tribute to Dr.G.Sreenevasan, founder HKL’s Urology and Nephrology Dept but Malaysian Indian doctors degrees derecognized
We pay tribute to Dr. G. Sreenevasan for his contributions to the Malaysian Medical field. Our condolences to Dr G. Sreenevasan’s family. (refer NST 4/2/2010 page 4)
This is yet another classic example and tip of the iceberg of how the Indians helped build this country Malaysia. In the year 1957, about 60% of the country’s doctors were Indian. The Indian doctors set up the Eye Department (Dr Keshminder Singh), Kidney Urology Department (Dr. G.S reenevasan), Child Department (Dr. Abraham) and the other medical departments in Malaysia.
But as UMNOs’ reward, in 2004 only one place was given in the University of Malaya for the 1.8 million Indians to compete. Thousands of Indian students using their parents hard earned savings, EPF, houses and land sold etc went overseas to study medicine in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Indonesia, India etc. But UMNO’s racist regime derecognized their degrees in these foreign Universities even though Malaysia is short of doctors by 50% (UM 8/10/09 page 24).
Why can’t these Indian students be made to do an extra six months of housemanship and absorbed into the Malaysian Medical service as doctors especially when we are 50% short of doctors. But UMNO would rather bring in doctors from muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and even Africa to fill in the doctor shortage in Malaysia. Never mind the foreign exchange flowing out of the country but no chance for the local ethnic minority Indian medical students studying overseas.
This extent of UMNO’s racism, religious extremism and supremacy does not happen in any other part of the world, the last having been in apartheid South Africa in 1989.
Dato’ Ambiga has been a practising Advocate and Solicitor since March 1982. She is a founding partner of Sreenevasan, Advocates & Solicitors.
She was also a panelist of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration under the Malaysian Network Information Centre Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“MYDRP”) from 2006 to 2009. She was Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Sub-Committee of the Bar Council from September 2005 to March 2006. She was Vice President of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association in 2002.
Currently, Dato’ Dr. Ambiga is a Mediator on the Panel of the Bar Council, Malaysian Mediation Centre. She is also Co-chairperson of the Bar Council Committee on Orang Asli Rights and a member of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Aid Organisation. She is a member of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), as well as the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APPA). She also heads Bersih 2.0, a citizen’s movement for free and fair elections. She is Director of the Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Centre. She has been involved in drafting and presenting of several papers and memoranda on issues relating to the rule of law, the judiciary, administration of justice, legal aid, religious conversion and other human rights issues.
Dato’ Dr. Ambiga holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of Exeter, England.[4] In July 2011, She was conferred honorary doctorate in law by University of Exeter.[5]
She was one of eight recipients of the US Secretary of State “International Women of Courage” Award in 2009.
And, what about Ambiga's father, Dr. G. Sreenevasan, who they labeled "a low class pariah Indian laborer"?
Tribute to Dr.G.Sreenevasan, founder HKL’s Urology and Nephrology Dept but Malaysian Indian doctors degrees derecognized
February 5, 2010
Author s.jayathas
Tribute to Dr.G.Sreenevasan, founder HKL’s Urology and Nephrology Dept but Malaysian Indian doctors degrees derecognized
We pay tribute to Dr. G. Sreenevasan for his contributions to the Malaysian Medical field. Our condolences to Dr G. Sreenevasan’s family. (refer NST 4/2/2010 page 4)
This is yet another classic example and tip of the iceberg of how the Indians helped build this country Malaysia. In the year 1957, about 60% of the country’s doctors were Indian. The Indian doctors set up the Eye Department (Dr Keshminder Singh), Kidney Urology Department (Dr. G.S reenevasan), Child Department (Dr. Abraham) and the other medical departments in Malaysia.
But as UMNOs’ reward, in 2004 only one place was given in the University of Malaya for the 1.8 million Indians to compete. Thousands of Indian students using their parents hard earned savings, EPF, houses and land sold etc went overseas to study medicine in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Indonesia, India etc. But UMNO’s racist regime derecognized their degrees in these foreign Universities even though Malaysia is short of doctors by 50% (UM 8/10/09 page 24).
Why can’t these Indian students be made to do an extra six months of housemanship and absorbed into the Malaysian Medical service as doctors especially when we are 50% short of doctors. But UMNO would rather bring in doctors from muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and even Africa to fill in the doctor shortage in Malaysia. Never mind the foreign exchange flowing out of the country but no chance for the local ethnic minority Indian medical students studying overseas.
This extent of UMNO’s racism, religious extremism and supremacy does not happen in any other part of the world, the last having been in apartheid South Africa in 1989.
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