Janarthani Arumugam

Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower) congratulates Jannie Lasimbang for her win in the Village Development and Security Committee (JKKK) election for Kg Tanaki and Nampasan in the district of Penampang, Sabah. We further congratulate the district of Penampang for the admirable effort in holding local elections, thus ensuring that people on the ground have a real say in how the place they live in should be run.

Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower) is outraged at the blocking of The Malaysian Insider by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). We are alarmed that this is only the latest manifestation of an ongoing and worsening trend of Internet censorship in Malaysia.

This year marks 20 years since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, as well as the 20th anniversary of Malaysia’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw).

EYEWITNESS 'We had looked fear in its eye and stood together in the face of great danger and harm to ourselves.'