LETTER | We call on all political parties to actively choose to challenge gender and other stereotypes, fight gender bias, discrimination and celebrate women's achievements.
| For the All Women’s Action Society , the celebrations of International Women’s Day 2020 in Malaysia is a bittersweet one.
Hours and hours were spent by a number of stakeholders, not limited to the women’s groups, scrutinising sexual harassment laws from other countries, to pick out the best regulations that would fit the Malaysian context as well as meeting after meeting was held at Putrajaya to draft out a workable bill, and then, in turn, to review each line of the draft bill to ensure that loopholes were closed and that the laws of sexual harassment would work within our country’s legal, social and cultural...
Furthermore, social policies promote social trust. When society feels safe with each other, they are further encouraged to work together, and this leads to better democratic institutions, more growth in the economy and less crime and corruption. This form of social capital is the security that Malaysia needs in our current troubled and uncertain times.
A survey of 1002 Malaysians carried out by YouGov Omnibus revealed that 1-in-4 Malaysians are sexually harassed at some point in their lives - of which 26.6 percent were harassed in a public place. Police also noted that between 2013 -2017, 21 percent of reported cases of sexual harassment involved men.
Despite all that has happened in recent weeks, Awam’s 35 years of experience in advocating women’s rights has taught us to find the silver lining in our no-government cloud. Sometimes you have to work with what you have.
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