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 […]
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“ADIL adalah menimbang yang sama berat, menyalahkan yang salah dan membenarkan yang benar, mengembalikan hak yang empunya dan jangan berlaku zalim di atasnya. Berani menegakkan keadilan, walaupun mengenai diri sendiri, adalah puncak segala keberanian.” – Buya Hamka. Awal-awal lagi, Perdana Menteri telahpun menyuarakan hasrat dan amanat beliau bagi memberikan isyarat nilai yang akan ditumpukan dalam […]
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25th October 2018 In two weeks time, on the 8th of November 2018, an important proceeding will be taking place at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, in Geneva. Malaysia’s human rights practices will be scrutinised in a mechanism known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). A multitude of recommendations are expected to be […]
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13th October 2018 MACSA welcomes the move by the government to allow stateless children to register in national schools as announced by the Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching. Malaysia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which is particularly important when it comes to access to education for stateless children […]
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In conjunction with the recent celebration of our 61st Merdeka Day and in anticipation of Malaysia’s pending Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this November, being its 3rd to date, we are pleased to grant access for the viewing of the Malaysian public MACSA’s Joint Submission for Stakesholder’s […]
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Wawancara Majalah Al-Islam bersama Prof. Madya Dr. Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar, Presiden WAFIQ
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Presiden WAFIQ berbicara tentang LGBTQ di rancangan AlaCarte, Radio Bernama Tetamu : 1. Prof Madya Dr Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar, Pengrrusi Bersama Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society of Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) dan Presiden Women’s Alliance For Family Institution and Quality Education (WAFIQ). 2. Tuan Aidil Khalid, Exco Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society of […]
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(*featured photo from PenangMonthly) UNDERAGE MARRIAGE ISSUE Underage marriages are strongly correlated with poverty and level of education. It happens in any society where there is an imbalance of wealth distribution, and children are the weakest fragment amongst the society and are normally the most victimised. We support measures to stop forced marriages that are […]
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The Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) is disappointed that the Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (COMANGO) has chosen to frame its own UPR stakeholder report on Human Rights in Malaysia with unprovoked, malicious attacks on their fellow human rights defenders. MACSA, like COMANGO, has in March […]
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