Period spot checks should never happen again - minister
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Women, Family, and Community Development Minister Rina Harun expressed shock over the menstrual period spot checks conducted on female students in schools.
She said she will engage the relevant authorities to ensure this practice ends. This is unacceptable and shouldn t happen in schools, I take this seriously.
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COMMENT | Where s the outrage when women are killed in domestic violence?
Modified16 Mar 2021, 12:47 am
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COMMENT | It is ironic that just within days of celebrating International Women s Day, reports of women being brutally murdered have made headlines in the Malaysian media. From being strangled, stabbed, shot and buried, many of these were the result of domestic violence.
And yet, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Harun said that there could be many factors contributing to men committing domestic violence, one of which could be stress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The statement made by the minister ignores the fact that women have also lost their jobs and experience stress as a result of the pandemic too. In fact, numerous studies have again and again emphasised the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has on women that not only affects their professional opportunities but also makes the burdens borne by them at home much more demanding.
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MP SPEAKS | The year of failing dangerously
Modified4 Apr 2021, 9:53 am
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MP SPEAKS | As we sadly marked the first anniversary of the first unelected government in history, we remember then calling Perikatan Nasional’s(PN) perfidious overthrow of a constitutionally elected Pakatan Harapan government, as a severe setback for democracy and reforms.
Such prophetic words have been proven true with the decision of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to suspend Parliament following a declaration of a state of emergency, ostensibly to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.
Malaysia is probably the only country in the world that believes that the act of suspending Parliament can overcome Covid-19.