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Will Malaysia tell muslims not to emulate their prophet in under age SEX and ban child marriage?

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The world greeted 2020 with paranoia and caution as the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread around the globe. Malaysia is no exception to the outbreak with over 100 people tested positive for the virus as of 12 March.

In late February, the country was in turmoil as former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad resigned from his position and an alleged ‘backdoor government’ was formed. Political drama and claims of betrayal from various parties headlined the local news. The king then appointed Muhyiddin Yassin, the former deputy president of Pakatan Harapan (Pact of Alliance) as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Muhyiddin's new coalition, Perikatan Nasional (National Alliance) includes the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the political party of disgraced ex-prime minister Najib Razak, as well as the Malaysian Islamic Party or Parti Islam Se Malaysia (PAS) that wants tougher Islamic laws to be implemented. The list of Malaysia’s new Cabinet ministers was announced on 9 March, 2020 and some Malaysians are not too happy about the line-up.


One of the most discussed appointments was that of Siti Zailah, who serves as the new deputy minister of the Women, Family and Community Development (KPWKM) Ministry in Malaysia.

Siti Zailah has been criticised on social media, particularly on Twitter as her old tweets regarding child marriage have resurfaced and are going viral.

According to local media reports, back in 2017 in a parliamentary debate on the Child Sexual Offences Bill – a member of parliament (MP) from Kulai, a district in the southern state of Johor in Malaysia, proposed to include a minimum age for marriage in the bill. However, Siti Zailah argued against the bid and used religion to exclude this clause from the bill.

The minister was then reported to have said that there is a difference between sexual offences against children which is an act of violence - and underage marriage. This sparked an outcry from local activists.

Although most of these reports on Siti Zailah’s stance on child marriage are from the past, her predecessor, Hannah Yeoh has expressed concerns that the issue of child marriage is going to be brushed aside due to the appointment of the new KPWKM deputy minister.

Child brides are not unheard of in Malaysia. According to a United Nations (UN) report from 2010, over 80,000 married women in Malaysia were girls between the ages of 15 and 19. However, the actual number could be higher as many couples do not register their marriages.


Girls Not Brides, an organisation committed to ending child marriage stated that child marriage in Malaysia is driven by a few factors which include trafficking, traditional attitudes, gender norms and pre-marital sex.

There have been many cases in Malaysia where parents are too poor to support their children and would marry off their young daughters to older men so that they are taken care of. According to reports, some young wives were alleged victims of marital rape – which has yet to be criminalised in the country.

Some conservatives would also argue that it is better for girls to marry at a young age in order to curb pre-marital sex in the Muslim-majority country. In 2014, the UN expressed concern that authorities in Malaysia were encouraging child marriage to curb pre-marital sex and children born out of wedlock. Sex outside of marriage is an offense in Malaysia. This often drives youths into marriage out of fear of prosecution.


Five-year plan

In 2018, following public outcry over the case of a 41-year-old man who married an 11-year-old girl in the east coast state of Kelantan in Malaysia, the government at the time responded by saying that it was in the process of drafting a bill that would ban child marriages in the country.

In 2019, former KPWKM minister and former deputy prime minister, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail stated that the federal government could not enforce a total ban on child marriages nationwide as seven states in Malaysia disagreed with the proposed bill. Only the state of Selangor in which the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur is located has successfully amended its laws on child marriage. Five other states have also agreed to amend their laws.

Earlier this year, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail launched the national strategic plan to address the causes of underage marriage. The plan comprised of seven objectives, 17 strategies and 58 programmes to tackle the causes in the next five years.

Among the causes identified are poverty; lack or no access to reproductive health education; lack of access to education and society's stigma that marriage is the best choice to solve problems.

“These causes will be addressed through policy changes, to amend the relevant laws and the implementation of awareness programmes and activities,” said Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

Child marriage strips girls off their right to a proper education and better opportunities. Hopefully, Siti Zailah and Rina Harun, who was appointed as KPWKM minister will continue with the efforts and initiatives of their predecessors in fighting for women’s and children’s rights in Malaysia.
 

mudhatter

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right

human beings develop at different rates

some mature early, some mature late

can't apply one blanket rule for all

makes sense

only thing not making sense

is CECA and their wobbly heads

what with the curry smell?

DistinctLegalBushsqueaker.webp



right? no?
 

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Seeking Justice for China’s ‘Underage Prostitutes’
After a government crackdown on rights activists, child victims of sex crimes have fewer advocates.
BY JOANNA CHIU | FEBRUARY 2, 2016, 10:38 AM
Yingkou

BEIJING, China — Four and a half years ago in a small village on the outskirts of the coastal city of Yingkou in northern China, a woman stopped a 12-year-old girl outside the child’s school and lured her into a car. “If you don’t come with me, I will beat you every time I see you. You will not have any more good days in your life,” state media reported her saying. The woman and an accomplice allegedly used similar threats to bring seven other rural schoolgirls to a rented apartment. There, the girls were stripped, beaten, and kept in one locked room. Over 18 days in September 2011, they were taken to hotels and raped repeatedly by at least four men, including a retired local government official and a village head. The men reportedly paid the two kidnappers up to $270 each visit. The girls were beaten into submission and forced to watch and wait their turn, according to official media.
State news agency Xinhua said that the youngest victim, a 12-year-old referred to in reports under the alias Yang Yun, knelt in front of her mother after police brought her home, bowed her head and said: “Mom, I was sold.” Five of the girls were between 14 and 17 years old; two other victims were just 13.

But after the suspects’ arrest, they were not charged with kidnapping or rape, but instead with “engaging in sex with underage prostitutes,” a criminal classification that legal experts claimed had shamed the victims into silence. It is unclear whether the perpetrators were ever punished. Hundreds labeled as “prostitutes” in China have been exploited in similar ways, according to government statistics, although cases are likely underreported. Following years of lobbying from activists, Chinese lawmakers have finally struck out the controversial crime and reclassified it as rape. But China’s laws are still riddled with loopholes that allow perpetrators of sex crimes against children to escape justice. And the ongoing crackdown on human rights lawyers and civil society — including the Feb. 1 shuttering of Beijing Zhongze Women’s Legal Counseling and Service Center, the legal aid organization responsible for the campaign against the “underage prostitutes” classification — is only making things worse.
China doesn’t regularly provide estimates of the number of children forced into sex work in the country, but police said they rescued more than 24,000 abducted women and children in 2011, many of whom were bound for prostitution rings. Child trafficking cases have been growing since 2001. There were 176 cases of underage sex crimes between the years 2000 and 2004 with 240 people sentenced, but in 2009 alone, authorities arrested 175 people in relation to underage sex crimes. Among these cases, those that involved an exchange of money were usually classified as “engaging in prostitution with an underage girl” rather than the more serious crime of rape. (No official breakdown of the cases is available.) A report from the UN-backed counter-trafficking group COMMIT found that rural girls and young women in China are especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation for profit or sale into marriage by traffickers. In an interview with Foreign Policy, veteran women’s rights activist Feng Yuan said it’s an “ugly problem fueled by the traditional belief that taking a girls’ virginity is like getting a trophy.”
it’s an “ugly problem fueled by the traditional belief that taking a girls’ virginity is like getting a trophy.”
As Feng noted, “Men are willing to pay large sums for the opportunity.”
 

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Unicef Malaysia: Child marriage likely rose during Covid-19 pandemic as schools closed, economy worsened | Malay Mail
In Malaysia, an average of 1,500 children from various religions, ethnicities, and communities marry each year, Rina Harun said. — Picture by Hari Anggara
In Malaysia, an average of 1,500 children from various religions, ethnicities, and communities marry each year, Rina Harun said. — Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — While much is being done by United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) stakeholders, youth groups, ministries and watchdogs around the world to end child marriage, the Covid-19 pandemic has posed a serious threat to this progress.
Unicef’s findings released on International Women’s Day warned that school closures, economic stress, service disruptions, pregnancy, and parental deaths due to the pandemic are putting the most vulnerable girls at increased risk of child marriage worldwide.
Chief of Child Protection at Unicef Malaysia, Sarah Norton-Staal, said this was evident during the pandemic, especially since fewer children attended school and parents’ bid for financial survival resulted in them considering marrying their children off as a solution.
Worryingly, Unicef said such changes increase the likelihood of child marriage over the next decade, with possibly up to 10 million more girls exposed as a result of the pandemic.
Even before the Covid-19 outbreak, 100 million girls worldwide were already at risk of child marriage in the next decade, despite significant reductions in several countries in recent years.
“The current data available is not comprehensive and there are issues about registration of marriages, thus trying to ascertain exact numbers and patterns is difficult.
“However, it appears there is an upward trend in particular as a result of the pandemic during the past year,” Norton-Staal told a group of panelist and members of the media in an online launch of Unicef advocacy brief towards ending child marriage yesterday morning.
The event was held virtually to acknowledge and renew Malaysia’s commitments in ending child marriage in conjunction with International Women’s Day and saw participaton by various stakeholders.
These included Malaysia’s Women, Family and Community Development Ministry and its Indonesian counterpart, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), the Girl Guides Association Malaysia, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, and PACOS Trust, a non-governmental organisation specialising in native affairs.
What is the situation in Malaysia?
In Malaysia, an average of 1,500 children from various religions, ethnicities, and communities marry each year, according to Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rina Harun who spoke in a pre-recorded video played during the launch.
She said this practice occurred in both urban and rural areas, among Muslim and non-Muslims, Orang Asli or indigenous people, and even amongst migrant and refugee communities.
In 2018, available data showed that 1,856 children were married, of which around 90 per cent were girls. It was also reported that between 2007 and 2017, approximately 15,000 cases were recorded.
“It is a violation of a child’s rights with negative implications, on the child’s ability to fulfill their potential and future opportunities, not least that of the girl child. The ministry’s stand is that children should always be allowed to develop their full potential,” Rina said.
“Study has shown that child marriage,can have serious long-term consequences on their health and well-being, including educational and economic opportunities.”
Why is child marriage legal in Malaysia and what is the government doing?
According to Norton-Staal, in Malaysia, it is primarily the "exceptions" to the law that allow parents to petition for their children to marry.
Authorities, both civil and religious, tend to approve these requests for "exceptional" marriages, but she argued that these exceptions should not be allowed.
Rina said, however, that Malaysia is committed to addressing child marriage, as seen in the ratification of, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw), in 1995 and the subsequent removal of the reservation to Article 16(2) about child marriage in 2010.
The government also ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1995, in which she said it committed under Article 24(3) “to take all effective, and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial, to the health of the children.”
She also said In recognition of the importance of this issue, in January 2020, the government introduced a six-year National Strategy Plan in Handling the causes of child marriage.
Legislative reforms alone not enough
Amending laws alone will not end child marriage but conditions, attitudes and behaviour must also change, according to Unicef.
According to its country representative, Dr Rashed Mustafa Sarwar, the legislative issue is only one part change and there are many other factors and solutions that need to be stepped up.
“It requires a multicultural and multilevel mindset change in protecting a child from marriage. It must be our own unique effort (society and stakeholders), to end child marriage in Malaysia.
“That will bring gender equality...” he said adding 90 per cent of child marriage compromised females.
Rina also echoed addressing child marriage in Malaysia is a shared responsibility involving many stakeholders
“Child marriage is deeply rooted in society, and economic circumstances, which makes it is very difficult for individuals, or families, to end the practice on their own.
“Change has to take place across many levels of society. The best interests of children must be the motivating factor to garner support and push for reform on all fronts,” she said.
During the launch, seven areas were highlighted as contributing to child marriage: legislation that allows or facilitates child marriage; lack of access to sexual reproductive health education information and services; low household income and poverty; lack of access to education and poor school attendance; lack of access to parenting support; social norms that condone child marriage; and lack of legal status or rights for children affected by migration.
Unicef said reforms in these areas would have the most effect in preventing child marriage.
 

ChristJohnny

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It is not the religion ... it is the Race. Its DNA were wired to fuck own daughters/mothers. It just happened to all Moslem countries.

IQ and Race
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syed putra

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The federal court has already conclude that states cannot anyhow create laws thst run contrary to federal law passed by parliament.
Current legal age for marriage under federal law is 18.
 

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Seeking Justice for China’s ‘Underage Prostitutes’
After a government crackdown on rights activists, child victims of sex crimes have fewer advocates.
BY JOANNA CHIU | FEBRUARY 2, 2016, 10:38 AM
Yingkou

BEIJING, China — Four and a half years ago in a small village on the outskirts of the coastal city of Yingkou in northern China, a woman stopped a 12-year-old girl outside the child’s school and lured her into a car. “If you don’t come with me, I will beat you every time I see you. You will not have any more good days in your life,” state media reported her saying. The woman and an accomplice allegedly used similar threats to bring seven other rural schoolgirls to a rented apartment. There, the girls were stripped, beaten, and kept in one locked room. Over 18 days in September 2011, they were taken to hotels and raped repeatedly by at least four men, including a retired local government official and a village head. The men reportedly paid the two kidnappers up to $270 each visit. The girls were beaten into submission and forced to watch and wait their turn, according to official media.
State news agency Xinhua said that the youngest victim, a 12-year-old referred to in reports under the alias Yang Yun, knelt in front of her mother after police brought her home, bowed her head and said: “Mom, I was sold.” Five of the girls were between 14 and 17 years old; two other victims were just 13.

But after the suspects’ arrest, they were not charged with kidnapping or rape, but instead with “engaging in sex with underage prostitutes,” a criminal classification that legal experts claimed had shamed the victims into silence. It is unclear whether the perpetrators were ever punished. Hundreds labeled as “prostitutes” in China have been exploited in similar ways, according to government statistics, although cases are likely underreported. Following years of lobbying from activists, Chinese lawmakers have finally struck out the controversial crime and reclassified it as rape. But China’s laws are still riddled with loopholes that allow perpetrators of sex crimes against children to escape justice. And the ongoing crackdown on human rights lawyers and civil society — including the Feb. 1 shuttering of Beijing Zhongze Women’s Legal Counseling and Service Center, the legal aid organization responsible for the campaign against the “underage prostitutes” classification — is only making things worse.
China doesn’t regularly provide estimates of the number of children forced into sex work in the country, but police said they rescued more than 24,000 abducted women and children in 2011, many of whom were bound for prostitution rings. Child trafficking cases have been growing since 2001. There were 176 cases of underage sex crimes between the years 2000 and 2004 with 240 people sentenced, but in 2009 alone, authorities arrested 175 people in relation to underage sex crimes. Among these cases, those that involved an exchange of money were usually classified as “engaging in prostitution with an underage girl” rather than the more serious crime of rape. (No official breakdown of the cases is available.) A report from the UN-backed counter-trafficking group COMMIT found that rural girls and young women in China are especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation for profit or sale into marriage by traffickers. In an interview with Foreign Policy, veteran women’s rights activist Feng Yuan said it’s an “ugly problem fueled by the traditional belief that taking a girls’ virginity is like getting a trophy.”

As Feng noted, “Men are willing to pay large sums for the opportunity.”

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