Women-Focused NGOs: Better Working Together
By Husna Shafirah
March 2025 FEATURE
IN THE 1980S, women’s organisations were relatively scarce, but their number began to rise following Malaysia’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1995. Between 2020 and 2024, a total of 1,944 new registrations of women-related non-government organisations (NGOs) were recorded by the Malaysian Registrar of Society (ROS) to advocate for women’s rights, welfare and empowerment. However, numbers alone do not dictate whether they are addressing critical gaps effectively.Institutional theory in...
Husna Shafirah
is a final-year student of Applied Language (Hons): English for Intercultural Communication from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Currently interning with Penang Monthly, she is enjoying her first opportunities in writing about culture and lifestyle along with the smell of freshly printed magazines.
