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COMANGO’s Attack of Fellow Human Rights Defenders Smacks of Diversion and Desperation

08 Jun 2018311 Views0

The Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) is disappointed that the Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (COMANGO) has chosen to frame its own UPR stakeholder report on Human Rights in Malaysia with unprovoked, malicious attacks on their fellow human rights defenders. MACSA, like COMANGO, has in March this year submitted its own stakeholder report before the 3rd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Malaysia, which will be held on 8th November in Geneva, Switzerland. We are a coalition that champions human rights and fundamental liberties enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human rights 1948 (UDHR), the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam 1990 (CDHRI) and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration 2012 (AHRD) in accordance with the local...

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Constructive Engagement With Independent Members Of Civil Society The Way Forward

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25 May 2018314 Views0

It has been two weeks since the results of the watershed May 9th general election has been made known to us and Malaysians of all walks of life are still getting adjusted to life under the new Pakatan Harapan (PH) government led by our new Prime Minister, YAB Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Many have thus focused on the promises of this new administration contained in their Buku Harapan manifesto, in particular with respect to those touching upon institutional reforms as well as those affecting fundamental liberties. With regard to those, the Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) takes this opportunity to remind the new administration in no uncertain terms that for any meaningful realisation of institutional reforms and enhancement of rights to take place...

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Menangani Masalah Diskriminasi Agama dan Gangguan Seksual di Kalangan Wanita di Tempat Kerja

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31 Mar 2018377 Views0

TERJEMAHAN Penglibatan wanita dalam sektor pekerjaan negara telah meningkat dari 5.72 juta dalam suku kedua tahun 2017 kepada 5.76 juta dalam suku ketiga tahun yang sama, seperti yang dinyatakan oleh Ketua Perangkawan, Jabatan Perangkaan Malaysia, Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin. Kadar penyertaan wanita dalam tenaga kerja di Malaysia adalah 54.3% pada tahun sebelumnya. Trend terkini menunjukkan kadar ini akan semakin meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. Peningkatan penglibatan wanita di sektor pekerjaan ini memerlukan perhatian yang serius dari pimpinan dan pembuat dasar, terutama sejak akhir-akhir ini dimana terdapat aduan tentang amalan diskriminasi dan gangguan seksual terhadap wanita di tempat kerja. Pertubuhan Ikatan Wanita Antarabangsa bagi Institusi Keluarga dan Pendidikan Berkua

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Addressing Religious Discrimination And Sexual Harassments Against Working Women

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31 Mar 2018329 Views0

Women’s participation in the national workforce has increased from 5.72 million in the second quarter of 2017 to 5.76 million in the third quarter in the same year according to Chief Statistician of the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin. The female labour force participation rate for Malaysia was 54.3% the year before. Current trends indicate that the participation of women in the national workforce are set to rise even further. The rising number of women in Malaysian workforce requires considerable attention from management and policymakers, especially of late when there have been reports on discriminatory practices as well as sexual harassment occurring at the workplace. The International Women's Alliance for Family Institution and Quality Ed...

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Pengumuman Penyerahan Laporan Gabungan Ke Pertubuhan Bangsa Bersatu, Geneva

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26 Mar 2018323 Views0

Gabungan Organisasi Masyarakat Sivil Di Dalam Proses Semakan Berkala Sejagat (UPR) atau Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (ringkasnya MACSA) ditubuhkan pada 27 Oktober 2017 sebagai penzahiran permuafakatan 47 organisasi masyarakat sivil Islam (ICSO) dalam menyumbangkan idea, tenaga dan kepakaran masing-masing untuk mengoptimumkan penyertaan masyarakat sivil di dalam proses Semakan Berkala Sejagat (Universal Periodic Review atau UPR) bagi Malaysia yang masuk pusingan ketiga menjelang bulan November kelak. Sidang Media pada hari ini diadakan untuk mengumumkan laporan pemegang kepentingan (Stakeholders’ Report) MACSA yang akan dikemukakan kepada Jawatankuasa Kerja, Majlis Hak Asasi Manusia, Pertubuhan Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) (UNHRC). Laporan pemegang kepenti...

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Equitable Rights and Re-Examining the Concept of Gender

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08 Mar 2018338 Views0

2018 is the year to empower women. Yet there is still much work to be done. The legal frameworks and policies – pertaining to marriage and family, are still perceived as unsatisfactory in protecting the rights of Malaysian women. Although undeniably, our legislative bodies have made some improvements, however many have criticized these changes as either superficial or, at the very least, insufficient. Issues such as discrimination and violence against women, sexual harassment, job dissatisfaction, income disparity, inadequate women representatives in policy-making bodies or in boards of directorship continue to be familiar conundrums that plague our society. To address these issues, our society must be prepared to adopt tools that would provide valuable insights in eliminating inequi...

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MACSA Memuji Komitmen Kebangsaan dalam Hak Asasi Manusia

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01 Mar 2018341 Views0

Pada hari ini kerajaan Malaysia telah mengumumkan pelancaran Pelan Tindakan Hak Asasi Manusia Kebangsaan (NHRAP). Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process atau Gabungan Organisasi Masyarakat Sivil Dalam Proses Semakan Sejagat (MACSA) mengambil peluang ini untuk merakamkan penghargaan serta memuji kesungguhan dan komitmen Kerajaan dalam membela, menghormati dan mempromosikan hak asasi manusia di peringkat kebangsaan. MACSA berharap NHRAP ini akan dimanfaatkan seoptimum mungkin untuk memajukan bukan saja takat pematuhan hak asasi manusia di Malaysia tetapi juga keseluruhan taraf hidup dan kebajikan rakyat Malaysia. MACSA amat berharap NHRAP ini dijadikan panduan dan rujukan untuk menyelesaikan beberapa isu hak asasi manusia yang jelas wujud dan sering dibangkit...

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Focusing on pressing and urgent women’s issues

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23 Feb 2018320 Views0

On February 19, Malaysia’s progress in women’s rights was reviewed at the 69th session of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). This is the second time Malaysia has been reviewed after it acceded to CEDAW in 1995. The review process is undoubtedly one of the best platforms to raise awareness of issues concerning the rights of women in Malaysia. The Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society Organisations in the UPR Process (MACSA) welcomes the government’s commitment in combating discrimination against women including the government’s assurance to enact Gender Equality Act, as well as its commitment in upholding and implementing a legal framework and policies pertaining to marriage and family on the basis of equality between m...

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Ketidakwarasan Hujahan Jantina-Spektrum LGBT

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29 Jan 2018338 Views0

TERJEMAHAN Dengan dogma baru yang dicanangkan oleh Regresif Haluan Kiri berkenaan dengan jantina, kita dapat lihat kini bagaimana ramalan Orwell menjadi kenyataan di dalam sebuah dunia, di mana kita dikehendaki untuk menerima bahawa 2+2=5. Dan, sama seperti apabila aturan asas aritmetik diketepikan, begitu jugalah keadaannya nanti jika kita menolak aturan asas biologi. Trend terkini yang memaksa kita untuk menerima bahawa “kedua-dua jantina dan identiti jantina adalah spektrum, yang terdiri daripada pelbagai identiti jantina, tidak cuma terhad kepada lelaki, wanita, perempuan dan laki-laki,” hanya boleh mengakibatkan kekeliruan dan kekacauan yang tidak masuk akal. Kenyataan yang dipetik di atas dikeluarkan oleh gabungan NGO di Malaysia yang menentang niat kerajaan yang kononnya ingin

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Absurdities of spectrum-gender LGBT arguments

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28 Jan 2018332 Views0

With the Regressive Left’s new dogmas on gender, we now see the actualisation of the Orwellian premonition of a world, in which we are required to accept that 2+2=5. And, just as it would be the case if fundamental arithmetic were discarded, the same is true if we dismiss basic biology. The current perfidious trend that forces us to accept that “both sex and gender identity is a spectrum, consisting of many identities that are not limited to male, female, women and men,” can only inevitably result in absurd confusion and chaos. The statement quoted above comes from a coalition of NGOs in Malaysia objecting to the purported government’s intention to perform a “gender test” on a prominent social-media celebrity, whose gender has been called into question by the public at large. They ma...