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Diskriminasi Wanita Bertudung – Usaha WAFIQ Menampakkan Penyelesaian

March 22, 2019June 26, 2019adminLeave a Comment

8/1/2018 Pertama kali wakil WAFIQ berjumpa dengan pekerja- pekerja hotel Muslimah yang tidak dapat bertudung kerana polisi hotel. WAFIQ bersama MACSA segera membawa isu ini ke media. Sedari itu, WAFIQ telah mengeluarkan banyak kenyataan di media bagi menyuarakan kerisauan terhadap isu. Antaranya: i) https://m.malaysiakini.com/letters/401651 ii) http://wafiq.my/2018/01/09/religious-discrimination-banning-of-hijab-among-hotel-employees/ iii) https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2017/11/13/hijab-ban-is-not-international-policy/ 25/01/2018 WAFIQ mewakili MACSA terlibat dalam sidang akhbar bersama […]

No Basis for Banning of Female Circumcision

January 30, 2019February 6, 2021adminLeave a Comment

We would like to refer to your article https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/01/23/stop-female-circumcision-it-has-no-medical-benefit-say-womens-groups/ WAFIQ wishes to clarify several facts concerning female circumcision (FC) which was recently discussed in the launching of the report of “The Status of Women’s Human Rights: 24 years of United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Malaysia” […]

When Unity is Loss in Community

December 22, 2018February 7, 2021adminLeave a Comment

Recently, a photo of a few men sitting in the LRT while a pregnant women was left standing besides them went viral on social media. Many netizens joined the person who uploaded the photo in cursing and shaming the men for being intolerant. The twist of the story happened when one of the passenger in […]

SUHAKAM Tidak Wajar Eksploitasi Isu Larangan Bertudung Untuk Sokong ICERD

November 5, 2018December 22, 2018adminLeave a Comment

WAFIQ merujuk kepada Kenyataan Media Suruhankaya Hak Asasi Manusia (SUHAKAM) yang bertarikh 31 Oktober 2018 mengenai kepentingan Malaysia menandatangani dan mengiktiraf International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) sebagai saranan dan jalan penyelesaian untuk isu diskriminasi di tempat kerja yang dihadapi oleh ribuan wanita di Malaysia terutamanya dalam industri perhotelan […]

Hijab Banning Issue does not Justify Ratification of ICERD

November 3, 2018June 28, 2019adminLeave a Comment

WAFIQ refers to SUHAKAM’s Media Statement dated 31 October 2018 on the need for Malaysia to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), as the proposed solution for workplace discrimination faced by numerous Malaysian women in the hotel industry who are not allowed to wear headscarves or hijab. […]

Penyediaan TASKA: Kepuasan wanita bekerja termasuk penjagaan anak

November 3, 2018November 3, 2018adminLeave a Comment

Langkah menambah Taman Asuhan Kanak-Kanak (TASKA) di bangunan kerajaan dapat memberi kepuasan yang secara langsung mendorong penyertaan lebih ramai wanita dalam sektor pekerjaan. Presiden Perikatan Wanita Antarabangsa Untuk Institusi Keluarga dan Pendidikan Berkualiti (WAFIQ), Prof Madya Dr Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar, berkata ia selari hasil kajian mengenai kepuasan wanita bekerja pernah dijalankan organisasi itu bersama Universiti […]

Stakeholder Report for the 3rd Cycle of Universal Periodic Review on Malaysia

November 1, 2018February 28, 2023adminLeave a Comment

INTRODUCTION The International Women’s Alliance for Family Institution and Quality Education (WAFIQ) is a women’s civil society organisation, registered with the Malaysian Registrar of Society PPM-015-10-23032018. It upholds the rights of women to be respected and valued, ensures the sanctity of families to be preserved for better functioning of the society and strives for better […]

Isu Tudung Dan Sempadan Rahmah Lil Alamin

October 30, 2018adminLeave a Comment

Sekalipun Islam meletakkan nilai serta semangat toleransi yang tinggi, Rasulullah dilihat meletakkan sempadan yang jelas apabila sesuatu perkara itu melibatkan perkara aqidah, syariat serta kehormatan Islam. Menurut al-Qardawi, Muslim perlu menghormati nonMuslim dan non Muslim (ahl zimmah) perlu menjaga perasaan (sensitiviti) umat Islam. Al-Qardawi menjelaskan bahawa dengan itu tidak boleh bagi non Muslim untuk mencerca Islam, […]

Isu Tudung Pekerja Hotel

October 30, 2018February 20, 2019adminLeave a Comment

Hari ini, saya sempat menyertai pertemuan MACSA (Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations) bersama YB Dato Dr Mujahid dalam membincangkan isu-isu hak asasi kemanusiaan yang dari perspektif Islam. Salah satu perkara yang dibentangkan adalah isu tudung pekerja hotel Muslimah. Isu ini dibangkitkan sendiri oleh tiga orang wakil pekerja hotel Muslimah yang menceritakan pengalaman mereka diminta […]

Free to Wear What They Want

September 7, 2018October 4, 2018adminLeave a Comment

WE refer to the letter “More to focus on than policing women’s clothing” (The Star, Aug 8) from the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO). WAO seems to miss some rather important points. Firstly, a study by the Women’s Alliance for Family Institution and Quality Education (Wafiq) in collaboration with Centre for Human Rights Research and […]