In August, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Professor Philip Alston, conducted a country visit to Malaysia. It may have seemed an unlikely choice, given Malaysia’s significant economic growth in recent years and low official poverty rate,…
From the time Diana was nine years old, her stepfather abused her. Diana had bruises on her hands, hips, and backside from when her stepfather would hit her, throw objects at her, and push her against the wall. Diana’s stepfather…
Statement by the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) Yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Women, Family, and Community Development, Dato’ Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, announced that a special tribunal for hearing cases of sexual…
