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Pemuda Sosialis holds the stance that the transgender community should be allowed to practice their faith in places of worship particularly in mosques. All of the directives and statements issued by the Perlis Fatwa Council, Mufti of Pulau Pinang, Datuk Seri Dr. Wan Salim Wan Mohd Noor as well (…)
People sent to the camp are taught about religion, health, HIV and AIDS.
As of June 2021, 1,733 Malaysians from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have been sent to a rehabilitation camp run by Malaysia’s Islamic Development Department (JAKIM), Malaysia’s Prime (…)
Dr Subatra Jayaraj was preparing spinal anaesthesia when Che Nusrat (not her real name) was brought in for a diabetic foot ulcer operation.
Wearing a headscarf, the woman in her 60s had been in the hospital for two weeks and this was her third time under the knife.
“It was only on the third (…)
Transgender activist Nisha Ayub has questioned why religious authorities are once again targeting the transgender community.
Transgender activist questions minister
In a public statement yesterday, she urged Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, who is in (…)
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s LGBT community is on high alert after its members have received rare jail terms, raising fears of increased persecution by religious authorities as the government steps aside, unwilling to anger conservative Muslim voters.
Already a target of violent attacks, online (…)
Last month, news emerged that International Labour Organization member states, employers’ federations and workers’ representatives delivered a strong mandate on adopting a convention on workplace sexual violence and harassment. The vote was overwhelming, with 439 delegates voting for the (…)
Lawyers for Liberty has weighed in on Malaysia’s vote against the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on Violence and Harassment, saying that Putrajaya and workers’ bodies are shirking their responsibilities in defending those under their care.
“It was a very disappointing move by the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) and the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) to vote against the convention, and for the government to abstain from voting,” LFL executive director Melissa (...)
FEATURE | For many decades, government officials have trotted out the party line that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) rights are ‘Western’ and not ‘Asian’ values.
A couple of weeks ago, the Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (Centhra) released a statement saying that (…)
KUALA LUMPUR: A leading Malaysian LGBT+ activist on Monday accused authorities of intimidation after a statement he read to the UN Human Rights Council led to him being questioned by police.
Numan Afifi, an openly gay Muslim man and prominent advocate, travelled to Geneva last month to read (…)
PETALING JAYA: A public policy research and advocacy organisation has rubbished a claim that conversion therapy for LGBTs is not a form of violence, saying it produces long-term psychological trauma.
The Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy has expressed concern over a recent statement (…)
LETTER | We refer to the Malaysiakini report Cops summon LGBT activist for questioning over UN speech.
In March 2019, Malaysian human rights defender Numan Afifi made an intervention at the UPR (Universal Periodic Review) Adoption Reports at the Human Rights Council, Geneva. Amidst scrutiny (…)
In recent days, Malaysia attained international notoriety for caning two women after their being convicted in a religious court of attempting to have sex in a car.
In striking contrast, on September 6, the Indian Supreme Court held that section 377 of their penal code, which criminalised (…)
In September 2018, Malaysia attained international notoriety for caning two women in a after being convicted by a Moslem religious court of lesbian sex in a car.
In striking contrast, a few days later, the Indian supreme court rules that section 377 of their penal code, which criminalised (…)
Rare punishment was carried out in a courtroom and witnessed by up to 100 people
Two women found guilty of attempting to have sex have been caned in Malaysia’s conservative north-eastern state of Terengganu, in the first punishment of its kind.
The two women, aged 22 and 32, were caned six (…)
Discrimination against community intensifies after politicians ratchet up anti-gay rhetoric to gain votes
In the early hours of Saturday, the police and government officials raided a small nightclub in Kuala Lumpur.
The venue, Blue Boy, was known to be popular with the LGBT community, but (…)
PSM has defended the right of LGBT activists to participate in public events like the International Women’s Day demonstration. This in response to Islamist criticism of government and police “failure” to intervene against LGBT participants earlier this year.
The latest attack on the “liberal” (…)
LGBTQ-focused research academics and organisations might sound like a good idea on the surface, but some of this work in Malaysia is actually about pushing homophobic messages disguised as scholarship.
In 2008, Seksualiti Merdeka, a sexual rights festival, was held in Kuala Lumpur. Frequently (…)
Some ruling and opposition parties use anti-LGBTI rhetoric to ’prove’ their Islamic credentials at election time. This encourages a hardening of public attitudes and reduction in public sector services to Malaysian LGBTI communities. Among the opposition parties, only the anticapitalist PSM (…)
Four times.
That was how many times prominent activist Pang Khee Teik said he had to come out to his parents.
Pang, who is gay, is prominent for being outspoken and vocal about LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) issues in Malaysia.
However, the first time he came out to his parents (…)
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) is disappointed to learn that the Malaysian High Court has rejected a request that a Syariah (Shari’a) Law in one of the Malaysian states which bans Muslim men from cross-dressing be declared unconstitutional. The High Court rejected arguments submitted by four (…)
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