Idea mengiktiraf gender ketiga telah dibawakan oleh SUHAKAM melalui proposal kajian bertajuk Feasibility of Having Legislation on the Recognition of a Third Gender. Sehingga penulisan ini, tidak diketahui status kajian tersebut sama ada akan diteruskan atau tidak kerana walaupun JAKIM telah memohon penjelasan, belum ada pertemuan di antara 2 agensi tersebut. “Kajian” SUHAKAM ini dibantah ramai […]
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‘Mereka bertengkar ramai dalam bahasa yang bagiku sama asingnya dengan bahasa nasib manusia.’ – Pramoedya Ananta Toer Bahasa adalah suatu komoditi yang unik dalam interaksi sosial, bukan sekadar untuk kelangsungan hidup seharian tetapi lebih utama lagi, bagi menjaga kesepaduan sosial dalam sesebuah masyarakat. Apabila bahasa yang jelas digunakan dengan telus, interaksi menjadi mudah tetapi apabila […]
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It is common amongst many factors to see an appeal to human rights or international human rights norms as the justification for LGBTQ and gender equality. It seems in our modern or post-modern society, human rights or rights claims rest much on what is taken for granted as “rights order”. And much of the rights […]
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A common assertion we hear is Malaysia’s LGBTQ community constantly face discrimination, selective persecution and untold violence, daily. Legal practitioners and activists have asserted that there are laws that promotes the discrimination and selective prosecution of the LGBTQ community. The recent Federal Court ruling that the Selangor state’s Islamic law criminalising ‘unnatural sex’ is void […]
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On 27 March 2021, Dr Madeline Berma made a statement on her Facebook page (which has since been deleted), which detailed her paper on the ‘Human Rights of Sex Workers in Malaysia’. It is appalling that a commissioner for human rights in Malaysia has fallen hook, line and sinker for the deception created by the multi-billion-dollar […]
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The Equality Act (EA), a US legislation whose purpose is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and other related purposes was first introduced on 18 February 2021. The bill was passed by the US House of Representatives on 25 February 2021 and was received by the House of […]
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Hari ini USA meraikan Akta Kesamarataan (Equality Act) dan perkara pertama yang mereka raikan ialah untuk “eligibility” (disengajakan salah ejaan). Ketika saya dijemput mewakili WAFIQ / USIM memberi pandangan tentang Akta Kesamarataan Gender di bengkel-bengkel dan mesyuarat yang dianjurkan oleh Kementerian Wanita, saya selalu menolak pandangan dan kertas kerja yang dibawa oleh kumpulan wanita pro-feminist […]
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“Sugar dating” or “sugaring” is a similar concept. The performance of exchanging love and companionship between males and females for financial backing is basically ‘prostitution’, disguising under a much elegant name. The founder of Sugarbook, Darren Chan who once said “if you’re not happy with the terms, you can always say no. Nobody is paying […]
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Recently there have been several hotly debated incidents in the news and on social media concerning sexual assault, in addition to the never-ending reports of unwanted pregnancies. These incidents remind us yet again of the consequences of ignoring the tenets of God’s laws upon human beings. We should not feign surprise at the consequences when […]
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We are compelled to address the polemics on the legal position surrounding the criminality of sexual assault within a marital relationship as well as on the calls for the removal of the exception under Section 375 of the Penal Code, which excludes sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife by a valid marriage […]
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