The lobby for a standalone law on sexual harassment started in 1999. However, the advocacy against sexual harassment began in the 1980s.
The lobby for a law on sexual harassment started in the late 1990s.
“It began in 1999, when the Women’s Centre for Change, Penang received complaints of sexual harassment from six women working in a resort hotel in Penang,” says veteran women’s rights activist Ivy Josiah.
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