International coalition of civil society groups across Muslim societies–from Algeria, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mali, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey and beyond–condemn the whipping of two women for “attempted sexual relations” which was carried out on 3rd September 2018 by the (...)
Man who already had two wives also charged with polygamy in case that caused outrage in Malaysia
A Malaysian man who married an 11-year-old Thai girl has been fined 1,800 Malaysian Ringgit (US$450) after pleading guilty in a sharia court.
Che Abdul Karim Che Abdul Hamid, who already has two (...)
Sisters in Islam (SIS) upholds that there can be no acceptable circumstance which can allow child marriage to take place in our country today, given our ambitions for comprehensive and inclusive socio-economic progress and modernity. It is therefore imperative that the government is seen to (...)
In a few days, Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of hundreds of civil society organisations (CSO) committed to ending child marriage, will hold its second global meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia has the unique opportunity to send a clear message: the law must be amended to set the (...)
The incoming Pakatan Harapan government has proposed to create Employees Provident Fund accounts for housewives with a RM50 top up from the federal government. Attention to women homemakers is overdue. But this proposal looks like mere tokenism to the spokesperson of the Parti Socialis Malaysia (...)
A coalition of civil society organisations and individuals launched the women’s manifesto yesterday to demand current MPs and potential candidates for the 14th general election (GE14) to endorse and champion the agenda of women in the coming election.
’Why a women’s manifesto?’ is a question many (...)
ON June 2, 2016, Asmah wept as she sat on a bench in Malaysia’s highest court. The court had just delivered its decision on her sexual harassment claim against her superior – and she’d won. But the victory was bittersweet; it had taken all of six years, 10 months and four days to get vindication (...)
The Joint Malaysian NGO Coalition for the 69th Session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) congratulates the Government of Malaysia for undergoing a second CEDAW review after a long absence, but expresses its disappointment with the scant (...)
GENEVA, 19th February 2018 - A joint coalition of 37 civil society organisations in Malaysia (1) raised concerns at the 69th Session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) that despite having acceded to CEDAW in 1995, Malaysia is only engaging (...)
PETALING JAYA: PSM’s Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar has urged female journalists to speak out on sexual harassment by male politicians.
Women needed to be bold and tell their story to change the perception that this behaviour was acceptable, he said.
“As long as these incidences are swept (...)
A women-only-additional-seats system is the most feasible, fastest and least contentious way of accelerating women’s participation in formal politics, says Maznah Mohamad. Women’s under-representation in politics
As the 14th general election approaches, will there be any significant change to (...)
The SIS Story
It began with a question. If God is just as Islam is just “why do laws and policies made in the name of Islam create injustice? This was the burning question faced by the founding members of Sisters in Islam (SIS) when they began their search for solutions to the problem of (...)
Women’ safety- Women have real fears walking out in the early hours of the day or later in the night. Even in the middle of the day, women are not spared. It has become increasingly dangerous for women who are targets of petty thefts, snatch thieves. We cannot close our eyes to those whose lives (...)
PRESS STATEMENT:
8 MARCH 2012
International Women Day Statement: Liberation, equality and freedom.
In conjunction with International Women’s Day 2012, Parti Sosialis Malaysia would like to commemorate women’s pursuit of liberation, real justice, equality and freedom.
This year is the 101 year (...)
Women are claiming a leading role the political reform movement in Malaysia. In July this year, around 50,000 Malaysians braved a massive state-sponsored onslaught against freedom of expression and freedom of assembly to gather in the nation’s capital to demand electoral reform. It was the (...)
Today, women’s groups have come together to hold an urgent press conference to express our deep concern and anger at the baseless allegations that the non-governmental organisation Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower) has links to communism.
Women’s groups are appalled and condemn the (...)
THERE was an increase in marriages involving underage Muslims in the Federal Territory last year. This goes against the assumption that child marriages are now on the decline due to changing cultural trends. Last year, 49 Muslim girls under 16 years of age and 39 boys under 18 tied the knot. (...)
Muslim activists filed a lawsuit Monday against a Malaysian women’s group, asking it to remove the word “Islam” from its name on the ground that it misleads people to believe it speaks for all Muslims.
The suit against Sisters in Islam, one of the most well-known nongovernment groups in this (...)
PUTRAJAYA: Three Muslim women were caned last Tuesday for engaging in illicit sex, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.
They were the first women in Malaysia to receive such punishment under syariah law. Two of them where whipped six times and the third was given four strokes of (...)
Women’s rights Sisters slammed, Pas urges ban
SHAH ALAM: Women were on the main agenda at the closing of the Pas annual general assembly yesterday.
The party passed a resolution urging that the women rights group Sisters in Islam be banned if it was found to be against Islamic teachings, while (...)
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