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THE Child Rights Coalition Malaysia (CRCM) and Education Cluster of CSO Platform for Reform (ED-Platform) are disturbed by the recent reports in the media on the state and development of the education system in Malaysia pertaining to the following:
1. Basic human rights violation of students
The incidents of menstrual spot checks in schools and the moral policing of Muslim female students are a violation of the dignity of the child, their right to protection under Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which refers to the child’s right to privacy. Such actions create fear in students and may result in trauma that affects their safety and ability to learn in school. This can have dire effects in their future.
MELAKA: An 18-year-old girl s father and three brothers were charged with 35 counts of raping, sodomising and physically abusing her.
The 51-year-old lorry driver and his three sons, in their 20 s, claimed trial to all the charges before Judge Nariman Badruddin at the Ayer Keroh Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday (May 5).
The four were charged with allegedly raping, outraging the modesty and abusing the girl at a house in Tanjung Minyak here between March 1,2020, and Feb 1,2021.
The father was charged under Section 376(3) of the Penal Code for rape, Section 324 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt and Section 14(a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017.
LETTER | Hold schools accountable for sexual harassment of students
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LETTER | The Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM) stands in solidarity with various advocates, politicians and NGOs, to request that schoolteachers and administrators are held accountable for physical, sexual, psychological, emotional and verbal violence and abuses committed towards school children of all ages and genders; and to uphold sexual and reproductive health and rights of schoolchildren.
That such abuses should occur in school settings diminishes the voice of the child and the child’s ability to be heard, even in the face of abuse.
According to the media, former and current national, religious and boarding school female students are subject to invasive period spot checks. Such spot checks include queuing in front of toilets to do vaginal swabs with cotton buds, tissues or fingers, ordering students to strip down to their underwear to examine their sanitary pads, and the groping
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