Talkback Thursday: Are women safe in KL?
Just yesterday, MP of Batu Gajah (Ms) Fong Po Kuan claimed that women’s fears about their safety contradicted the statistics on crime reduction under the National Key Result Areas.
This claim attracted a barrage of responses from other MPs in the Dewan Rakyat with retorts saying that the fear for women’s safety was based on perception and did not reflect the views of the majority of women; that the crime statistics do not lie, and that Malaysia has been acknowledged as one of the safest countries in the world.
According to the Global Peace Index Report of 2011, Malaysia is the…
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