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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
 AID FOR PAKISTAN FLASH FLOODS 2010 SURVIVORS CAMPAIGN INFO SHEET Championing SARA is a campaign advocating the integration of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Awareness into the healthcare, medic and items aid sent to post disaster and conflict situation. It is also an independent fundraising platform by concerned individuals. The campaign pushes for items to be put together as humanitarian kits, and SRH related drugs from pharmaceutical companies such as emergency contraceptive, hormones, painkillers, and others, to cater specifically to SRH crises in emergency settings. Our first and current project is in aid of the Pakistan Flash Floods 2010 survivors. Help has been really slow to reach the survivors of the recent natural disaster, while 1600 died, and 20 million lives been displaced thus far. Tragically, the numbers are expected to continue climbing. |
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 |
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Press Statement “Court Decision on Bung Moktar Case Undermines Gender Equality and Justice” 12 August 2010 by the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG)
The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) is disappointed with the decision made by the Shah Alam Syariah High Court to set aside Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin’s jail sentence for committing polygamy without the Syariah Court's consent, and instead fine him with RM1,000. We are especially concerned over statement made by the judge, Mukhyuddin Ibrahim when he handed down the decision. |
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 |
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Press Statement on a National Child Support Agency
Sisters in Islam welcomes the statement by the Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Community Development, Senator Heng Seai Ki, that the Ministry is studying the setting up of an agency to regulate support payments for children of divorced parents. We are however concerned that the agency will reportedly only have jurisdiction over non-Muslim Malaysians.
We reiterate our opposition to the rising trend in Malaysia to treat Muslims and citizens of other faiths differently, separately and unequally.
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
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Press Statement on Child Marriage
Sisters in Islam expresses its deep concerns over the decision by the Malacca Islamic Religious Council to relax the conditions for Muslim girls under the age of 16 and Muslim boys under the age of 18 to marry with the permission of the Syariah court, and to encourage parents to allow their minor children to marry.
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
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By Razak Ahmad
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters Life!) - Malaysia's first female Islamic court judges are set to take office but women's rights activists in the mainly Muslim country aren't cheering yet.
Limits on the cases they will be allowed to hear which may see them barred from making rulings on marriage and divorce have caused some activists to question whether the moderate Muslim country in Southeast Asia is really ready to empower women. "We don't understand the basis for this. Presumably they're as qualified as the male judges so there's no reason to disqualify them on the basis of gender," said Marina Mahathir from Sisters in Islam, a Muslim women's rights group. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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Keputusan pemerintah Malaysia untuk mengangkat hakim wanita di pengadilan agama Islam, disambut baik oleh berbagai kelompok feminis Muslim. Sisters in Islam (SIS) yang berkantor di Kuala Lumpur mengatakan kepada BBC pihaknya sudah bertahun-tahun mengajukan usul ini. |
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Friday, 16 July 2010 |
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By Boo Su-Lyn
July 15, 2010 BANGI, July 15 — A study on polygamy, which is allowed only for Muslims here, showed that 44 per cent of first wives are forced to find extra work after their husbands take on a second wife. The study by non-governmental organisation Sisters in Islam (SIS) and the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (Ikmas) of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) surveyed some 1,200 participants from polygamous families throughout peninsular Malaysia since 2008. |
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Sunday, 04 July 2010 |
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SHARING THE NATION
By ZAINAH ANWAR A news report titled The End of Men suggests that the idea of men being the dominant sex is changing, and the trends are there for all to see, even in Malaysia.
WHAT if modern, post-industrial society is better suited to women? What if men and women were fulfilling not biological imperatives but social roles, based on what was more efficient throughout a long era of human history? What if that era has now come to an end? More to the point, what if the economics of the new era are better suited to women?
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 |
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SHARING THE NATION By ZAINAH ANWAR Early marriage can have serious harmful consequences for children. The figures show that is a problem that crosses all races and states, raising many disturbing questions that need to be answered.
TWO MONTHS ago, there was public outcry over the marriage of two little girls, aged 10 and 11 to much older men in Kelantan. It was two too many. But now the 2009 data on pre-marital HIV screening, mandatory for all Malay Muslim couples wanting to get married, shows that this problem is more prevalent than expected. |
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