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Violence Against Women

Domestic Violence

• JAG Memorandum (in Bahasa Malaysia) on “Komen Berkenaan Pindaan Kepada Akta Keganasan Rumah Tangga (1994)” dated 11 October 2006 (132KB PDF)
• WCC Memorandum (Revised) on Review and Proposals for Amendments to the Domestic Violence Act 1994 submitted in December 1999 (200KB PDF)
• WCC Memorandum on Prioritisation of the Proposed Amendments [to the Domestic Violence Act 1994], 9 December 1999 (1.9MB PDF)

Rape / Sexual Assault / Incest

• Penan Task Force Press Statement (37.3KB PDF)
• See also WCC Research on Sexual Crimes (Dialogue Background Papers published in 2007)
• WCC Memorandum on Proposed Amendments to the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code dated June 2006 (108KB PDF)
• JAG Memorandum to the Special Select Committee on the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code dated August 2005 (232KB PDF)
• JAG Memorandum to the Special Select Committee on Penal Code (Amendment) 2004 and Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) 2004 dated 28 October 2004 (228KB PDF)
• Anti-Rape Task Force Memorandum on Laws Related to Rape dated September 2003 (167KB PDF)
• WCC Memorandum on Laws Against Incest dated 23 May 2002 (54.2KB PDF)
• WCC’s Response to the New Incest Provision and other Penal Code Amendments dated 10 August 2001 (23.5KB PDF)

Sexual Harassment

• See our Media page for WCC and JAG’s letters and press statements on our sexual harassment campaign (2007)
• JAG’s Memorandum on the Government’s Proposal to Amend Existing Labour Laws and Penal Code to Combat Sexual Harassment dated 25 April 2005 (76KB PDF)
• JAG’s Executive Summary of the Proposed Sexual Harassment Bill, June 2002 (30.6KB PDF)
• JAG’s Proposed Sexual Harassment Bill, May 2002 (140KB PDF)
• JAG’s Briefing Notes to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development on “Sexual Harassment and the Need for Legislation”, March 2002 (28KB PDF)
• Update on WCC / JAG’s “Stop Sexual Harassment” Campaign, 2002 (28KB PDF)
• Combating Sexual Harassment : The Way Forward, 11th Malaysian Law Conference in November 2001 (99KB PDF)
• JAG Memorandum on Proposed Sexual Harassment Bill, 30 March 2001 (29KB PDF)
• Presentation of the Memorandum on the JAG Proposed Sexual Harassment Bill, 30 March 2001 (23KB PDF)
• JAG Memorandum on “Stop Sexual Harassment”, 30 June 2000 (25KB PDF)
• Speech by Zarizana Abdul Aziz during the Handover Ceremony of the Signature Petition on Stop Sexual Harassment by JAG, 30 June 2000 (16KB PDF)

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