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PETALING JAYA: With four main priorities comprising economy, leadership, security and well-being, the National Women's Policy (DWN) 2025-2030 aims to empower women's participation while helping them reach their full potential through inclusive planning and development of gender equality.
SEREMBAN: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry remains committed to advancing women's empowerment in line with the Federal Constitution, says its Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Noraini Ahmad.
KUALA LUMPUR: Ten aspects of reform are needed to accelerate gender equality this International Women's Day, says Wanita MCA.
KUALA LUMPUR: Ten aspects of reform are needed to accelerate gender equality to mark this International Women's Day, says Wanita MCA.
JAKARTA: Experts have lauded the Philippines' commitment to guarantee men and women equal rights to land ownership with the issuance of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) and the formation of an agrarian reform agency, among other measures, saying the country could be a role model for its Asian peers.
HANOI: As one of the first countries to participate in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Vietnam has made significant efforts to fulfill its national commitments through various measures aimed at ensuring gender equality in all areas of social life, bringing in many encouraging achievements.
PETALING JAYA: Women’s rights and welfare in the country can be further upheld, say women’s groups.
NEW DELHI: Stating that there were areas in the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 (PCMA) that defeats the very purpose of law and needs to be addressed including child betrothals – engagement at childhood and marriage at different point in time – and the confusion over the precedence between PCMA and different personal laws, the Supreme Court on Friday (Oct 18)suggested the parliament to consider outlawing child betrothals which may be used to evade penalty under the PCMA.
LAST week, I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the EmpowerHER Symposium on International Women's Day.
Delivering a speech at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the UN Economic and Social Council in New York, Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan expressed Vietnam's high-level commitment to ensuring gender equality and women's rights as well as its multifaceted engagement and contributions to this priority area.
PETALING JAYA: The continued under-representation of women in politics in the country, especially in leadership positions, means that women are often left out of major decisions that affect them, say Malaysian women.
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia is participating in the Constructive Dialogue Session during the Presentation of the Periodic Report of the Sixth Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw) to be held from tomorrow until May in Geneva, Switzerland.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2024 must be amended further to be retroactive or it will be meaningless for the current batch of children born overseas to Malaysian mothers who are still non-citizens, says Family Frontiers Malaysia.
TERENGGANU has long struggled with a lack of female representation in its state legislature. For 44 years, from 1974 to 2018, there was no female state legislator.
KUALA LUMPUR: In a move to bridge the gender divide, a 139-year-old tradition that barred women at the Long Bar of the Royal Selangor Club (RSC) Dataran Merdeka was scrapped on Sunday.
PETALING JAYA: The organisers of the recent Women's March 2023 have lambasted the police for its heavy-handed response toward peaceful protestors.
PETALING JAYA: Several sections in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act 2022 (Act 840) have come into force effective Tuesday (March 28).
Lao Women’s Union (LWU) and the National Commission for the Advancement of Women, Mother-Child (NCAWMC) hosted the International Conference on Preventing and Responding the Violence Against Women in Asean.
KUALA LUMPUR: There is no discrimination against Malaysian women with regard to the citizenship of children born abroad through marriages with foreigners, says Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Mohamed Said.
