Female Circumcision is Unnecessary: Girls are Perfect as They Are — Dr Hannah Nazri

Dr Hannah Nazri, Director of the Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children shared an article she wrote on female circumcision. This was first published on her blog on 2nd April 2023. Not too recently, female circumcision came to Malaysians’ attention when popular Malaysian UK-based surgeon, Dr Amalina Bakri, spoke out against the backlash at her […]

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Persecuted In One Place, Unwelcome In Another — Dr Janani Devaraja & Ashvinderjit Kaur

Dr Janani Devaraja and Ashvinderjit Kaur, members of the Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children shared an opinion piece on refugee health as part of the International Day for the elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21st March 2023. First published online in CodeBlue by The Galen Centre on 22nd March 2023. Refugees have genuine health […]

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Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children Statement on Terengganu State’s Criminalisation of Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancies

We condemn the criminalisation of out-of-wedlock pregnancies within the Syariah Criminal Offences Enactment 2022 in Section 29A by the Terengganu State and other similar laws practised by other states in Malaysia. Please read our full statement below in English and Bahasa Melayu below. A shorter statement published by Ova Health – The Galen Centre can […]

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A Medical Practitioner’s Toolkit to Ending FGM/C

We are delighted to share with you a toolkit from the Asia Network to End FGM/C, written by Dr Hannah Nazri, for activists and civil society organisations who are keen to engage with healthcare professionals to end FGM/C in Asia. “The aim of this toolkit is to provide guidance to activists and civil society organisations […]

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Malaysia: FGM/C, period spot checks, and sexual harassment | Harvard Public Health Review — Dr Hannah Nazri

Dr. Hannah Nazri, Director of the Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children, shares her thoughts on FGM/C, period spot checks, and sexual harassment in Malaysia. First published in the Harvard Public Health Review on 27th June 2021. Perhaps the most strangely inspiring and damaging years of my life were in secondary school. It was the […]

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Webinar summary: “Is Female Circumcision in Malaysia, a Form of FGM? An Academic Discussion”

Watch the video recording of the webinar or read a quick review on the subject. Special thanks to Prof Dato’ Dr Abdul Rashid Khan, the Head of Public Health Medicine Department of RCSI-UCD (Royal College of Surgeons Ireland-University College Dublin) Malaysia Campus, and Mr Brian Earp, the Associate Director of Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and […]

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