Women’s Aid Organisation

This is whether or not you earn over RM2,000.

LETTER | NRD requires women to revisit the location they last resided and appear with their abuser all without guaranteeing their safety.

The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) is proud to present the opening of votes for the ‘Aiyoh Wat Lah!’ Awards, and with it a fresh crop of bigotry from 2014.

The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) shelter was established in 1982 when we opened our doors to a woman who left her husband, taking her two children with her. Since setting up the shelter 32 years ago, the Polis Di-Raja Malaysia’s (PDRM) role has been absolutely crucial and necessary in our services.

We refer to the article published in The Star on Oct 12, 2014, entitled ‘Woman attacked by hubby while praying’, where Fadzilah Ismail was reportedly beaten up by her husband for three hours.

The moment there was an inkling that Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud would be DAP’s candidate for the Teluk Intan Parliamentary seat, a picture purportedly of her (it wasn’t) in a bikini was circulated on the Internet. She has since been subjected to wolf whistles by her own supposed supporters, and called cheap candy by extremist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma).