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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
On September 9. 2021, Malaysia’s High Court ruled in favor of a group of Malaysian mothers who were seeking to pass on their nationality to their children born overseas. The judge ruled that the current citizenship law on its own is discriminatory and must be read together with another constitutional clause that outlaws gender discrimination ...
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 ...
The International Journal of Discrimination and the Law is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of law in connection with discrimination.The issues covered in this journal include racism and sex discrimination, the treatment of asylum-seekers and refugees, immigration and nationality, discrimination on grounds disability, sexual or political orientation, age and ill ...
Executive Order 14168, titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government", is an executive order issued by Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, [1] the day of his second inauguration as president of the United States.
The Constitution of Malaysia forbids discrimination against citizens based on sex, religion, and race, but also accords a "special position" in Article 153 of the Constitution, to Bumiputera, the indigenous peoples of Malaysia including ethnic Malays and members of tribes indigenous to the states of Sabah and Sarawak in eastern Malaysia. Those ...
The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law is a law review published by students at the American University Washington College of Law.The Washington & Lee University School of Law ranked the journal as the most cited legal periodical in the United States and selected non-U.S. regions in the topical area of gender, social policy, and the law in 2019.
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]