The Malaysian Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) published their 2015 Annual Report that features a long awaited decision about last year's complaint against Mega First Corporation Berhad, a Malaysian company. The complaint challenged the company's Don Sahong hydropower project...The communities claim that if built, the Don Sahong dam will cause irreversible harm to regional fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin, seriously affecting the lives, livelihoods and health of millions of people in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam...Due to lack of political space, democratic institutions and legal mechanisms to address the issue in Laos, the affected communities turned to the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM). SUHAKAM...ultimately concluded that it had no mandate to address a transboundary case...SUHAKAM’s challenges in addressing a transboundary case highlight the struggles of pursuing transboundary legal cases and the need to strengthen national human rights institutions and create an independent and functional regional human rights mechanism with a strong mandate....