By Nurin Adila Shahrin, GEC volunteer
More than 40 participants gathered for the second session of Gender Equality is Our Culture’s (GEC) Ramadan Talks, to learn more about the causes and consequences of teenage pregnancy and marriage within the Malay-Muslim community in Singapore. Since 2006, ...
By Nurin Adila Shahrin, GEC volunteer
GEC (Gender Equality is Our Culture) kick-started this year’s Ramadan Talks with an exploration of marriage education and gender roles in Islamic families. We had the pleasure of hosting Associate Professor Maznah Mohamad and Dr. Suriani Suratman from NUS, ...
AWARE responded to the ongoing consultation regarding proposed changes to the Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA). We offer these comments in the hope that the forthcoming changes can more robustly promote gender equality in outcomes under AMLA.
Since acceding to the Convention on the Elimi...
Join GEC (Gender Equality is our Culture) in collaboration with WALI (Women and Law in Islam) for a public discussion on Monday, 10th November at SCWO.
We will be exploring how and if gender justice exists within the Muslim context. Please register using the link below to join the conversation!
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AWARE is organising a 3-Part Ramadan talk on Gender in Islam, and first session is on 4 July.
We will be holding a series of presentations and discussions about the works of prominent Islamic scholars and their views on gender in Islam.
Session 1: Malay Ideas on Women by Dr Azhar Ibrahim (...
This piece has been modified for length by the author from its original version on cedaw-seasia.org, a website about CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) by UN Women.
Eight women sit cross-legged on straw mats in a circle talking animatedly while they drink tea a...
By Vivienne Wee
How did you react when you heard in July that a woman was about to be caned in Malaysia? Did you think something like this? “What’s so bad about drinking beer? These fundamentalists are too much.” But did you think that what was to happen to Kartika had anything to do with you...
