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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 (...)
Underage Muslim girls are regularly forced into marriage with Malaysian men, and the government turns a blind eye
One day this summer, 11-year-old Ayu married 41-year-old Che Abdul Karim Che Hamid at a small pink mosque on the banks of the Golok river in the far south of Thailand. Earlier that (...)
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 (...)
Stop the Hate Speech and Stigmatisation
The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) denounces in the strongest terms all forms of harassment and violence against the participants of the Women’s March 2018 (#WomensMarchMY), whether perpetrated virtually or physically. We call for the (...)
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