24 FEBRUARI 2021 Kami, gabungan pertubuhan sivil yang bekerjasama memperjuangkan hak asasi manusia di Malaysia terutamanya hak kebebasan bersuara membantah keras tindakan Dato’ Indera Khairul Dzaimee Daud, Ketua Pengarah Imigresen, Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia (JIM) yang telah menghantar pulang 1,086 orang ke Myanmar pada 23 Februari 2021. Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia melalui satu kenyataan rasmi hari ini […]

20 FEBRUARY 2021 The Civil Society Cluster on Freedom of Expression (and the endorsing organizations) is extremely concerned at the implications of the Malaysian Federal Court’s decision on 19 February 2021 holding Malaysiakini guilty of contempt of court in relation to third-party comments on their news site. While the court acquitted Malaysiakini’s editor-in-chief Steven Gan, […]

6 FEBRUARY 2021 The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) welcomes the Penang state government’s ‘Top-Up Women-Only Additional Seats’ (TWOAS) initiative as a bold, innovative and much needed measure to increase women’s representation in the state legislative assembly to a minimum critical mass of 30%. Malaysia is far behind in its obligations to uphold […]

16 FEBRUARY 2021 The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) echoes the outrage of public leaders and citizens against the recent complaints of sexual harassment by various women against policemen who stopped them at roadblocks. We are disappointed that the minister for women, family and community development remained silent until she was pressured by […]

14 JANUARY 2021 We – the undersigned – strongly object to the appointment of Arau MP Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim to the Parliamentary Special Select Committee for Women and Children Affairs and Social Development. We note that Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim has since requested to be replaced. In 2018, Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim was charged […]

4 DECEMBER 2020 The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) together with 37 other undersigned civil society organisations express grave concern at Deputy Home Minister YB Dato’ Sri Dr. Ismail Mohamed Said’s statement regarding the inability of Malaysian women to confer nationality onto their overseas-born child. In his explanation, the Minister cited the issue […]

24 NOVEMBER 2020 We, the undersigned civil society organisations, urge the police and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to investigate and the Attorney General’s Chambers to prosecute cyber thugs who post death and rape threats on members of the University of Malaya Association of New Youth (UMANY), which has come under a political […]

29 NOVEMBER 2020 As in past years and previous ASEAN Peoples’ Forums, the challenge facing ASEAN continues to be how to give full force and effect to, and to comprehensively implement the twin aims of increasing respect for and promotion of human rights, and the protecting and defending of human rights. To rise to meet […]

19 NOVEMBER 2020 We, the undersigned, urge the Minister of Human Resources to include job seekers in the proposed amendments to the Employment Act, to protect job seekers from discrimination. We also urge the Minister to include disability status as a protected ground – in addition to gender, race and religion. Background In September 2018, […]

5 NOVEMBER 2020 New research conducted by Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) and research company Vase.ai demonstrates an urgent need for the enactment of sexual harassment legislation. The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) urges the government to follow through on its commitment to table the bill at the next Parliament session and to help […]