Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Malaysians have a fairly good understanding of what violence against women (VAW) is but less than half of the respondents support gender equality, a recent study by rights group Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) has shown.
The report from the study launched today found that just 46.3 per cent of (...)
In the last two months, we were confronted with disturbing news of sexual harassment. These ranged from the “rape joke” on 17-year-old Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam, demeaning period spot checks on female students, sexual harassment and assault on Cindy Ong for years during her time as a national (...)
In a bid to make Malaysian schools safer for students, a media executive decided to create an online space for students to come forward with stories of sexual harassment. In just two weeks, the @Savetheschoolsmy Instagram page received hundreds of submissions.
“My ustaz (religious teacher) used (...)
In commemoration of International Women’s Day on March 8, let me start by applauding every single girl and woman out there who feels and experiences the anger resulting from inequality.
And those who, in their way, big and small, individually and collectively, choose to do something about this (...)
“Wanita Bangkit!” (Women Rise) – the cry echoed down the streets from Sogo right up to Masjid Jamek under the sweltering afternoon sun on March 8, 2018, commemorating International Women’s Day (IWD) that year.
Speeches made by women for women cutting across the community and class struggle of (...)
It’s been one year since Perikatan Nasional (PN) formed a government. Under their governance, we see many incompetent ministries failing to provide adequate policies and enforcement on many issues, especially gender. In conjunction with International Women’s Day, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) (...)
As an organisation which upholds gender equality and social justice, the Women’s Centre for Change (WCC) welcomes the Penang Chief Minister’s recent announcement of its “Top-Up Women Only Additional Seats” (TWOAS) for the state legislative assembly, the first of its kind in the country.
While (...)
We, leaders and representatives of civil society organizations, professional societies, scientific associations, faith-based organizations, governmental agencies and departments, private for-profit entities, non-governmental, non-profit organisations, and citizens of Malaysia, are united behind (...)
Obtaining child support after divorce is one of the main legal challenges facing Muslim women in Malaysia. Islamic courts have the power to hold a deadbeat dad’s male relatives responsible for alimony. So why don’t the courts enforce this?
This is the fourth year that Sisters in Islam (SIS) is (...)
One of the greatest defects of capitalism is the issue of booms and busts. During boom times the capitalists make huge profits, take back huge bonuses and give high dividends to share holders. During crisis and recessions, the big capitalists will buy the smaller ones, downsize, retrench their (...)
Women’s rights group have condemned the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development over Covid-19 awareness posters that promote gender stereotypes and blame women for domestic violence.
In a statement, Empower Malaysia said it was shocked at the ministry’s lack of gender sensitivity (...)
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 — Malaysia is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in the world where it is legal to get an abortion.
Despite this, many women and those with birthing bodies still face a multitude of barriers that prevent them from terminating an unwanted pregnancy.
A panel titled (...)
The overwhelming majority of Muslim women wished to be treated as equal to their husbands, to be respected, to have the right to speak up, to have their emotions be cared for, to have their husbands share the household responsibilities. So how is it that in reality they are unable to articulate (...)
Inequality, discrimination and disadvantages that women and girls face within their family and society are neither natural nor Islamic.
SHAME on Mohd Imran Abd Hamid.
In 2015 he condemned athletes for wearing sexy and arousing clothes and mixing freely with the opposite sex as this could lead (...)
On 4 May 2019, an infographic in Malay titled “The PH Government Empowers Women” surfaced and made the rounds on social media. With the captions, “More women leaders in Cabinet” and “More women assigned for the first time to highest leadership positions in government agencies, GLCs and GLICs”, it (...)
Petaling Jaya MP Maria Chin Abdullah, former leader of the Bersih (yellow shirt) pro-democracy movement, has criticised the Islamist PAS party for politicising and bringing religion into the government’s allocation of funds to the Islamic feminist NGO Sisters In Islam (SIS).
Maria said PAS (...)
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
COMMENT | For those of us who view religious (...)
In Algeria, Morocco, and Turkey, their family laws recognise equality between the husband and wife and specify mutual respect and kindness in marriage. In Afghanistan, Bahrain (Shia), Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey, no wali (male custodian) is required for a (...)
Abortion is legal in Malaysia, but comes with a heavy restriction, resulting in women resorting to illegal and risk abortion to terminate unplanned pregnancy.
In Malaysia, where contraception is a privilege for educated and informed family planning folks, unplanned pregnancies among unmarried (...)
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 (...)
Twitter
Facebook