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  2. Feminism in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    The feminist movement in Malaysia is a multicultural coalition of women's organisations committed to the end of gender-based discrimination, harassment and violence against women. Having first emerged as women's shelters in the mid 1980s, [1] feminist women's organisations in Malaysia later developed alliances with other social justice movements

  3. Women in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Malaysia ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in August 1995 with reservations. [4] Certain reservations were removed in 2010 but some were maintained, namely Articles 9(2), 16(1)(a), 16(1)(c), 16(1)(f) and 16(1)(g) as these Articles were said to be in conflict with the Malaysian ...

  4. Sexual harassment in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Sexual harassment at the workplace is a major problem in Malaysia. [10] The prevalence of sexual harassment in Malaysia has been studied across different settings; within the civil service, [11] [12] [13] various public and private workplaces such as hospitals, [14] hotels, [15] small and medium businesses, [16] as well as various higher education institutions, [17] both public [18] and ...

  5. Human rights in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Malaysia ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in August 1995 with reservations. [43] Certain reservations were removed in 2010 but some were maintained, namely Articles 9(2), 16(1)(a), 16(1)(c), 16(1)(f) and 16(1)(g) as these Articles were said to be in conflict with the Malaysian ...

  6. Discrimination against men - Wikipedia

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    A relevant example of discrimination is the stigma directed to the deliberation of men being considered as victims of rape or sexual-assault. It is reported that "some feminists reject male rape to validate women’s experience of sexual violence by viewing men as solely offenders".

  7. Gender inequality - Wikipedia

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    Gender inequality is a result of the persistent discrimination of one group of people based upon gender and it manifests itself differently according to race, culture, politics, country, and economic situation. While gender discrimination happens to both men and women in individual situations, discrimination against women is more common.

  8. Children's rights in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Malaysia's Population and Housing Census in 2010 showed that 82,282 married women in Malaysia were girls between the ages of 15 and 19, while another 1,000 in this age group were widowed and 842 separated or divorced. [18] The Deputy Minister for Women revealed that, for that same year, nearly 16,000 girls below the age of 15 were in a marriage ...

  9. Violence against women in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    From 2000 to 2007, there was an increase of rape cases in all 15 states of Malaysia, from 1217 to 3098 cases. Among all 15 states in Malaysia, Johor had the highest rape cases as of May 2017. [10] Based on the statistics released by the Penang Women Centre for Change, one woman is being raped every 35 minutes in Malaysia. [11]