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Friday, 30 July 2010 07:05 |
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There are harrowing sexual experiences women everywhere go through but not many get told. Victims of sexual harassment usually bury their misery deep within, and the screams for help that come from them are only on the inside. Because they stay silent, no one knows the torments they struggle to deal with by themselves. And so no one can help in the critical healing of a wounded heart.
FARIDA JIVAMALA IBRAHIM, a victim of sexual harassment down the years, had to deal with yet another sexual harasser a few months ago. For the first time, she writes openly about her experiences in the hope that other victims will know it is never their fault when they become the unwitting target of a sexual predator.
This is her story.
 I HAD never met him before. He was there as a guest at our function. Because of the pelting rain, we had delayed starting on time out of consideration for latecomers.
I had not heard him the first time he spoke those demeaning words, I was later told. So he had said them again, this time loud enough for me and the others around him to hear: “Farida, if you don’t start the movie promptly, I am going to strip you naked.”
Even the years of being a victim of harassment had not prepared me for this. Never before had I been confronted so publicly. His was a full frontal attack and without doubt he intended to hit, to hurt and to humiliate.
Yet I was able to say, just as loudly, "If you are going to talk like this, I’m going to send you out of this place. We do not entertain that kind of talk here."
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Written by A Worried Student
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:00 |
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1st August 2010 marks half a century of existence of the Internal Security Act. (ISA). Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI) and Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) invite all concerned citizens to a candle light vigil in conjunction with 50 years of ISA on 1st August 2010 at several locations all over Malaysia.
Picture by Danny Lim
Beberapa minggu yang lepas, pada suatu tengah hari yang sejuk, kelabu dan basah, aku mengikuti protes anti-ISA di Trafalgar Square, London yang telah dianjurkan oleh Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA-UK. Kurang dari 25 orang yang hadir, tetapi nombor yang sedikit ditebus dengan hati-hati yang tegar dan berapi-api. Mereka sengaja memilih lokasi demonstrasi di hadapan bangunan “Tourism Malaysia,” mungkin untuk mempromosikan Malaysia sebagai Negara yang patut menjadi tempat tuju aktivis-aktivis Britain kerana rekod hak asasinya yang cukup menarik. Dan tidak, Raja Petra tak ada pada masa itu. Cukuplah dia disumbatkan dalam Kamunting dahulu, berilah dia peluang untuk duduk di rumah.
Dengan berbekalkan beberapa poster, banner, sebuah alat pembesar suara, gitar, 'flyers' dan jiwa-jiwa yang penuh semangat, mereka memulakan protes mereka di tempat yang telah sedia dipagarkan di Trafalgar Square. Dengan itu, mereka pun bermulalah. Laungan “Stop the ISA!” dan “Stop human rights abuses in Malaysia!” kedengaran terngiang-ngiang di udara. Ramai yang lalu-lalang di kawasan protes tersebut, sesetengah dengan mata penuh curiga dan sesetengah lagi mengejar waktu yang tiada kompromi.
Kemudian acara diteruskan dengan seorang hadirin memetik gitar akustiknya dan menyanyi lagu-lagu protes ala Bob Dylan dengan tajuk-tajuk seperti “Kami Takkan Diam” dan “I Didn’t Speak Up”. Pening kepala omputih mendengar lagu yang dinyanyikan dalam bahasa melayu. Eh, maaf, bahasa Malaysia. Tetapi tetap ada antara mereka yang lalu-lalang mengangkat ibu jari mereka dengan tinggi, tanda sokongan terhadap perjuangan kami.
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Written by straits-mongrel
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:54 |
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 Withdraw University & University College Act 1971 (UUCA) Charge on Muhammad Hilman bin Idham, Muhammad Ismail bin Aminuddin, Azlin Shafina Mohamad Adzha & Woon King Chai, Immediately
The students above, Muhammad Hilman bin Idham, Muhammad Ismail bin Aminuddin, Azlin Shafina Mohamad Adzha and Woon King Chai are second year Political Science students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has been charged by university authority because they were found to be in the vicinity of the Hulu Selangor by-election and allegedly for showing support, sympathy or opposition towards political parties in Malaysia.
They are required to attend university disciplinary proceeding on the following date:
2nd June (Wednesday): Muhammad Hilman bin Idham
3rd June (Thursday): Muhammad Ismail bin Aminuddin, Azlin Shafina Mohamad Adzha, and Woon King Chai
9.00am at Bilik Mesyuarat Canselori, Aras 6, Bangunan Canselori.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:24 |
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Saturday, 03 July 2010 15:16 |
 Pic / Malaysiakini Tenaganita's Aegile Fernandez (left) gave a talk entitled "Child and Women Trafficking - Is There Hope?" at the Assumption Church on June 24. SABM's FARIDA JIVAMALA IBRAHIM came away shaken and angry
THE facts are horrifying. Sex trafficking, drug trafficking, slave trafficking, baby trafficking - you name it, Malaysia and other countries are doing it.
Talk about global business!
And enforcement officers are very much in the thick of it.
It turned out that men too were being kidnapped and brought out of their countries and onto open sea - to get ransoms paid and to toil as fishermen!
Here's a brutal fact to grasp:
In 2008, our country had 982 children reported missing. Of these, to date, 500 of those 982 are still missing. What of the other years? What of 2009 and 2010 so far. The statistics are staggering and still climbing!
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:20 |
 Goh Keat Peng: Addressing the audience at the Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia Roadshow in Penang. By Goh Keat Peng
First published in onGOHing.wordpress.com
Regardless of the results of the Sibu parliamentary by-elections, the reported “special grants” of RM1.75 million to four Methodist churches on the eve of polling day is very troubling to me as a Christian who attends a Methodist church and I am sure to many other Christians.
It is always troubling when a sitting government, regardless of which party, has to resort to dishing out “special grants” to various sections of the constituency involved in an election for the sole purpose of increasing their votability.
Such last-minute attempts to be seen as being sympathetic to the concerns and needs of specific sectors of voters is dishonest, insincere and hypocritical.
A sitting government which is genuinely sincere would have had a system in place to gauge issues and needs of the respective voters and to have an orderly, transparent, fair and effective way of allocating adequate budget and plans to resolve problems on the ground.
It is difficult to see how large sums of public money could suddenly become available or that the people’s needs could suddenly catch the eyes of the powers that be only when election campaigns are on.
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