Social Movement Malaysia

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Saliha Hassan, Meredith Weiss
Routledge, Nov 12, 2012 - Social Science - 240 pages

This book considers the proliferation in Malaysia over the past two decades of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) associated with various social movements, both to provide basic information about the NGOs and social movements, and to discuss their role in the development of civil society generally in particular their contribution to the reform movement, which has been gathering strength since 1998. The book discusses the nature and development of the movements, and shows that those movements concerned with human rights and women's issues have made significant contributions to the reform movement and been irrevocably changed by their involvement in it.

 

Contents

From moral communities to NGOs
1
History legal framework and characteristics
17
A historical analysis
45
The Womens Agenda for Change and the Womens Candidacy Initiative
75
4 Islamic nongovernmental organisations
97
5 The environment movement in Malaysia
115
6 The Malaysian human rights movement
140
7 Nongovernmental organisations in Sarawak
165
8 The peace movement and Malaysian foreign and domestic policy
181
Notes
196
References
207
Index
220
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