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CIJ calls out two Malay dailies for demonising Women’s Day March

” to describe the LGBT community whose lifestyle isn’t widely accepted in Malaysia.

disproportionately focused their reporting on the LGBT issue using negative words in their headlines claiming that it was culturally inappropriate to raise the issue of fundamental human rights for the LGBTIQ-identifying community,” the statement read. “Following the newspaper reports, a campaign to launch a police report against the Women’s Aid Organisation and Sister in Islam as march organisers was also announced,” the statement read.

 

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