Joint Statement: NGOs call for better protection and care for our children in care centers

Press Release - 12 September 2024Members of the Child Rights Coalition Malaysia (CRCM) and other child protection advocacy groups are deeply disturbed and appalled by the recent revelations of various forms of exploitation and abuse (physical, sexual abuse (including sodomy) neglect, and abandonment of 402 minors, ages between 1 to 17 years, across 20 welfare homes linked…

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Joint Statement: Advocacy Group welcomes the government’s move to amend the Act

Press Release - 9 July 2024 We, the Sexual Offences Against Children and Evidence of Child Witnesses (SOAC & ECWA) Advocacy Group welcome the tabling of amendments to the Evidence of Child Witness Act 2007 (ECWA) in the Dewan Rakyat today. We extend our heartfelt thanks to Datuk Seri Azalina Othman, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s…

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Urgent Need to Protect Anak Sarawak

Sarawak Women for Women Society, Press Release - 25 March 2024 Sarawak Women for Women Society, while welcoming the Federal Government’s decision to withdraw two of the proposed changes to the Constitution which would have stopped the automatic right to citizenship of foundlings, remains deeply concerned that other regressive amendments remain. If the proposed amendments are passed, by…

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Kisah seorang pemandiri keganasan rumah tangga

Saya tidak guna nama sebenar. “Bedah” adalah mangsa keganasan rumah tangga. Sudah beberapa tahun duduk bersama suami memang tidak pernah serasi. Ada-ada saja masalah yang timbul. Sepak, pukul, terajang, maki hamun sudah menjadi makanan dalam hidup dan dalam sehari tidak ada perkataan yang bagus keluar dari mulut sang suami tidak ada perkataan yang manis, lemah lembut. Sifat…

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Kenyataan Akhbar SWWS: Membentuk Masa Depan yang Mengutamakan Pemandiri (Mangsa)

Persatuan Wanita untuk Wanita Sarawak (SWWS) - Kenyataan Akhbar SWWS - 15 Julai 2023 For Englsh version, click here. YB Nancy Shukri, Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat, telah mengadakan sebuah mesyuarat untuk membincangkan penambahbaikan perkhidmatan untuk pemandiri di One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC), yang bertempat di semua hospital umum utama di Sarawak, sebagai jawapan kepada kebimbangan…

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SWWS Press Release: Building a Survivor-Centric Future

Sarawak Women for Women Society - Press Release - 15 July 2023 Untuk versi Bahasa Malaysia, klik sini. YB Nancy Shukri, the Minister for Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, recently called for a meeting to discuss how to improve services for rape survivors approaching the One-Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC), based at all major general hospitals…

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Open letter to Cabinet regarding proposals to amend citizenship laws in Malaysia

Press Release - 21 June 2023We, the undersigned Civil Society Organizations, are writing with regard to ongoing deliberations within government to amend Part III of the Federal Constitution and its related schedules.We welcome the government’s efforts to address longstanding issues relating to the citizenship of children born abroad to Malaysian citizen mothers, through amendments to include “mother”…

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Child Advocates and Civil Society Organisations: Government Agencies have a Legal Responsibility towards ALL Children in Malaysia

Press Release - 10 April 2023We are writing this on Easter morning. Easter is a time of hope and we have been reflecting on this recent marvellous, wonderful and just High Court ruling. The High Court judgment by Justice Datuk Noorin Badaruddin finally acknowledges, what the Child Act 2001 has been “saying” all these decades, that ALL…

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MORE PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN – SWWS Applauds Legislative Changes & Calls For Further Action

Sarawak Women for Women Society - Press Release - 31 March 2023 Recently the Government passed much needed amendments to two Acts to enhance protecting children from Child Sexual Abuse. Warmly welcomed as these are, SWWS calls on all parties to speedily implement the changes and continue to refine legislation to meet international best practices.The first set…

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