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   Realising women’s human rights in Malaysia

   the EMPOWER report

   Peer-reviewed publication

   April, 2015

   Malaysia

   Land & Gender

   gender equity

   gender equity in access to land

   land law

   land policies

   women

   Why do activist groups representing some of society’s most marginalized employ legalistic forms of ‘rights talk’ when the reality of securing rights via the judicial system is almost unimaginable? The article considers this question in relation to the work of the Malaysian non-governmental organisation (NGO) EMPOWER who, in 2011, produced the Malaysian Women’s Human Rights Report focusing attention on the rights of informal sector workers, refugees, sexual minorities and women’s rights under non-Islamic family law.