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- Economic empowerment (9)
- Migration (6)
- Gender equality and women’s empowerment (5)
- Employment (4)
- Ending violence against women and girls (3)
- Leadership and political participation (1)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (1)
- Fund for Gender Equality (1)
- UNiTE campaign (1)
- Entrepreneurship (1)
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
More than 150 business people, officials and civil society representatives took part in the launch of the campaign Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Activator Malaysia, aimed at enabling a gender-inclusive culture and implementing the WEPs in Malaysian businesses.
“No one deserves discrimination, inequality and violence, in hard times or in normal times.”
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Tenaganita is a civil society organization specialized in case management related to violence, exploitation and abuse of women migrant workers. They work to protect the rights of migrants, support survivors of trafficking in persons and also provide shelters for survivors of violence.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Women’s Aid Organization is a civil society organization which aims to end violence against women and promote gender equality in Malaysia. WAO operates helplines for survivors of violence against women, to any women who need support including women migrant workers, informing the survivors about their rights and available options, support them to make informed decisions.
Take Five: “Our mission cannot be realized without women’s economic empowerment.”
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Christian Ewert is President of amfori, a global business association for open and sustainable trade. amfori groups over 2,400 retailers, importers, brands and associations of more than 40 countries, with a combined turnover of more than 1 trillion euros. amfori recently signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), which UN Women and United Nations Global Compact developed to guide private companies to create gender-equal workplaces.
Friday, March 8, 2019
The European Union and UN Women jointly launched today a 3-year WeEmpowerAsia programme to encourage the private sector to expand economic participation and business opportunities for women in seven Asian countries: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Funded by the EU, UN Women will implement the €8 million programme aiming to integrate gender concerns into business practices in the region. WeEmpowerAsia will promote dialogue among women’s groups and the public and private sector so as to enable a business environment that empowers women; provide skills training...
From where I stand: “I have seen the impact women’s voices can have”
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Syar S. Alia is a young woman advocate for gender equality from Malaysia. Her journey as an advocate began with the first Young Women Making Change workshop for cis and trans women in Malaysia, supported by UN Women Fund for Gender Equality. For me, being a young woman living in Malaysia means maintaining an anger about the daily discrimination and harm [that women face], without burning out. Every day, there is...
Domestic worker rights video gets a staggering 15 million views in just one week
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The International Organization for Migration (IOM - UN Migration Agency) and the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) video Open Doors: Singapore has become an overnight sensation in Asia. The video, aimed at preventing the exploitation of domestic workers, was viewed more than 15 million times over the past week. Produced by IOM and USAID's innovative counter-trafficking campaign, IOM X, and in partnership with ASEAN and UN Women, Open Doors: Singapore tells the...
Monday, January 16, 2017
In Thailand, as in other countries of the region, employing domestic workers has long been a cultural and social practice as much as an economic one. In the past, such jobs were routinely filled by girls from the provinces and while often overworked and grossly underpaid, they were usually absorbed into the family, which provided them with some kind of security away...
Domestic help better off as 'not in family'
Monday, January 16, 2017
Treating domestic workers as if they are "part of the family" may lead to attitudes that are likely to be detrimental to them, a United Nations (UN) Women study has found. In the study released on Tuesday in Bangkok, focusing on migrant domestic workers in Thailand and Malaysia, researchers noted that many employers referred to their live-in domestic workers as "helpers" or as "aunties" and likened them to "family members". While these terms...
Welcome Remarks - The Impact of ASEAN Economic Integration in Labour Sector
Monday, March 21, 2016
Over the past two decades, the ASEAN region has seen impressive levels of economic growth. At the same time, we know that this growth has not been evenly distributed, resulting in rising inequalities within and between countries. Growing economic disparities, and the corresponding challenges for many States to ensure universal access to education, health, decent work and social services, provide both the push and the pull factors for labour migration...