On the 9th of March 2019, a group of people marched the streets of Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with International Women’s Day (IWD). Celebrated to honour women and to bring awareness to the myriad of issues that women face worldwide, a more sordid facet of this celebration reared its ugly head: the hijacking of the […]
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Hari Wanita telah disambut sejak pada tahun 1908 bersempena satu bantahan dan protes dalam kalangan wanita di Amerika Utara yang menuntut hak untuk mengundi sewaktu pilihan raya di negara tersebut. Bantahan tersebut telah diketuai oleh sekumpulan wanita dari Parti Sosialis Amerika Syarikat dan kemudiannya ia bertukar menjadi hari rasmi bagi golongan wanita. Namun demikian, tarikh […]
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On 20th January, YB Haniza Mohamed Talha, Selangor’s Housing and Urban Living Exco announced that the Selangor government will monitor the upgrading project of houses in four main areas in Selangor. The project will upgrade flat houses with two bedrooms and one bathroom into three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The four areas that will undergo […]
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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” […]
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This intervention serves to highlight particular concerns of our alliance, namely the Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process or MACSA, towards the recommendations recently received by Malaysia from states sitting in the UN Human Rights Council (#UNHRC) during its 3rd Universal Periodic Review (#UPR) in November 2018 as well as Malaysia’s […]
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“KALAU ahli perundangan tak berasa tersinggung kerana pelanggaran undang-undang, sebaiknya dia jadi tukang sapu jalanan.” – Pramoedya Ananta Toer Setelah berjuang nyawa hampir sebulan, akhirnya Muhammad Adib Mohd. Kassim, 24, menghembuskan nafas akhir beliau untuk kembali mendakap Sang Pencipta. Segala macam spekulasi tentang reaksi masyarakat timbul yang menyemarakkan lagi api perkauman. Rata-rata masyarakat melihat pemergian […]
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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 […]
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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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P Kasthuriraani must not mislead Parliament, be more constitutionally literate – MACSA 18 October 2018 Recently media reports in particular one by Free Malaysia Today on 16 October 2018 have quoted the Honourable Member of Parliament for Batu Kawan, P Kasthuriraani, urging the Government to “ratify” a certain United Nations General Assembly Resolution, the Declaration […]
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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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