Majidah Hashim

Absent husbands, children in tow, women choose between shelter, food.

Instead of denouncing men for their crime, we hear only advice dispensed to women.

Like potholes, hate speech has unfortunately become normalised in our lives.

When you empower a woman, you empower her, her children, family, community and the whole country.

COMMENT | This is the big elephant in the room that everyone appears to completely ignore.

COMMENT | As long as we keep thinking that domestic violence is a private matter, there will be continued reluctance to enforce the law.

COMMENT | The problem now is that legally, Malaysia still regards this practice as permissible.

The country's media future is something we really need to think about seriously.

COMMENT | Being stuck at home is one thing, being stuck with an abuser is something else. How is the MCO impacting women and children worldwide?

COMMENT | FGM must be stopped in M'sia, but it is actually a side effect of a much more deep-rooted problem - the patriarchy.

COMMENT | Decorating schools during festive seasons is not something new at all, and it promotes diversity.

COMMENT | At the rate the currents trends are going, the overall global gender gap will only be closed in 99.5 years.

COMMENT | Mankind is quick and harsh to prosecute, when in fact, God is quick and gentle to forgive and even reward.

COMMENT | I see exhaustion - of having to live up to society’s expectations of how a man or a woman should behave.

COMMENT | The Prophet challenged the norms of his time to protect his daughters. It is time we do the same for ours.

COMMENT | Adaptive divers are trained to assist amputees, paraplegics, quadriplegics and the visually impaired to scuba dive.

COMMENT | Something in our system is evidently broken - because it is unable to protect, comfort and bring justice to women.

COMMENT | Is denying of the rights of non-Muslim parents, or the confusion experienced by children justified?

COMMENT | 14,999 child marriages were recorded between 2007 and 2017 - averaging four a day.