Marriages across ethnicity, faith and nationality is increasing with communities more mobile and global. It is time to review how to support such families is the view of Sarawak Women for Women Society (SWWS).Recently SWWS held a forum entitled Mixed Marriages: Women’s Rights where participants heard from Erin Aronnyzer Sineng-Jamelin who shared her intercultural story after marrying…
Mixed marriage is a marriage between persons of different racial, ethnic, cultural or religious groups. Sarawak has a rich tradition of cross cultural marriage which, with increased mobility, has become more common. This forum will highlight and explore areas needing attention to strengthen women’s rights when they engage or disengage from such unions be they with other…
Kuching: The reality faced by carers is rarely understood. Few people stop to consider how demanding the role can be despite most of us likely to face being a carer or needing care at some stage in our lives.This was the message from a recent forum entitled, “Caring for Carers: What Needs to Change?”, conducted by Sarawak…
Women for Progress is the title of a new series of forums being launched this month by Sarawak Women for Women Society. SWWS’s President Margaret Bedus, when announcing the series, said that for women to reach their potential free of discrimination and abuse awareness alone was not enough – there also needs to be action. The forums…
Sarawak Women for Women Society, Press Release - 25 April 2018 SWWS sees the forthcoming election as a golden opportunity to choose candidates who will voice in Putra Jaya issues close to the hearts of Sarawakian women. “What matters to women needs to be listened to by all candidates. The range of issues cut across many areas not…
Organisations aiming to assist women need to adopt an empowering approach according to Sarawak Women for Women Society (SWWS). This was the message given to the participants at their recent training course which introduced basic para- counselling skills to those women wanting to help others facing distress. “Counselling is about helping people make their own decision after…
Sarawak Women for Women Society, Press Release - 26 October 2017 Women are still disadvantaged despite advances made according to Margaret Bedus, President of Sarawak Women for Women Society. “If you doubt this,” said Margaret, ”look at the cases of poverty amongst single mothers; reports of domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse that fill the newspapers as…
Sarawak Women for Women Society (SWWS) organised the Training of Trainers on the topic of Personal Safety for Children at one of the hotel in the Kuching on 9 October 2017. The objective of the training was to introduce and train the future trainers especially school teachers and children’s care givers from various Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) on the…
Sarawak Women for Women Society - Press Release - 4 June 2016 Malaysians are shocked by the prolific abuse of children in Malaysia by Richard Huckle and ask why he was not detected sooner. In SWWS’s view, part of the answer is that despite child sexual abuse regularly hitting the headlines, it is given low priority and…