A new study by the Datum Initiative and ARROW looks at the structural, social, and institutional barriers women and girls with disabilities face, particularly around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), healthcare access, education, and social stigma. On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Vilashini Somiah, co-founder of the Datum Initiative, Adhura H. Farouk, Senior Economist & Partnership Executive at Serunai Commerce, and autistic gender-disability activist Beatrice Leong. SUBSCRIBE now! @Astro Awani https://www.youtube.com/c/astroawani?sub_confirmation=1 Berita lanjut di: http://grid.astroawani.com Astro AWANI LIVE https://www.astroawani.com/video-terkini Social Media: FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/astroawani TWITTER https://twitter.com/501Awani INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/501awani TELEGRAM https://t.me/astroawani #AWANInews

Laporan SDGs 10 Tahun menyorot kelemahan perlindungan kesihatan seksual dan reproduktif wanita kurang upaya di Malaysia, mendedahkan pelaksanaan dasar tidak sejajar komitmen antarabangsa dan mencadangkan reformasi menyeluruh. SUBSCRIBE now! @Astro Awani https://www.youtube.com/c/astroawani?sub_confirmation=1 Berita lanjut di: http://grid.astroawani.com Astro AWANI LIVE https://www.astroawani.com/video-terkini Social Media: FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/astroawani TWITTER https://twitter.com/501Awani INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/501awani TELEGRAM https://t.me/astroawani #AWANInews

A new study by the Datum Initiative and ARROW looks at the structural, social, and institutional barriers women and girls with disabilities face, particularly around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), healthcare access, education, and social stigma. On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Vilashini Somiah, co-founder of the Datum Initiative, Adhura H. Farouk, Senior Economist & Partnership Executive at Serunai Commerce, and autistic gender-disability activist Beatrice Leong. SUBSCRIBE now! @Astro Awani https://www.youtube.com/c/astroawani?sub_confirmation=1 Berita lanjut di: http://grid.astroawani.com Astro AWANI LIVE https://www.astroawani.com/video-terkini Social Media: FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/astroawani TWITTER https://twitter.com/501Awani INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/501awani TELEGRAM https://t.me/astroawani #AWANInews

Free speech, inequality and the role of women. Malaysians debate the issues affecting their country. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Should there be affirmative action to get more women to the top of the media? How about a law to make politicians keep their promises? Jonny Dymond chairs a diverse panel fielding questions from a passionate audience in Kuala Lumpur, as they critique their own laws on freedom of speech. The Panel: Senator Dr Fuziah Salleh, Secretary General of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and Deputy Minister for Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Dr Tricia Yeoh, Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s School of Politics and International Relations Wan Ahmad Fayhsal, MP, Bersatu Party and Opposition Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Dr Vilashini Somiah, Head of the Gender Studies Programme, Universiti Malaya Recorded on 10 June 2025. 00:00 Introducing the panel 02:16 Most bosses in Malaysian media corporations are men 11:54 Malaysia' significant disparity in wealth 17:55 Malaysia as a diverse, secular country vs prioritising Malay Muslims 25:10 How can we ensure that rights to freedom of expression? 32:17 Can political parties be accountable for their promises? ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/bbcworldservice Twitter 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #malaysia #kualalumpur

On this episode of #TheFutureIsFemale Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Vilashini Somiah, Senior Lecturer with the Gender Studies Programme, at Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dr Vila was recently elected the 2026-2028 Chair of the Southeast Asia Council at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in the US. The AAS is the governing body of the world’s largest academic organisation dedicated to Asian Studies, and Dr Vila is the first-ever Southeast Asian scholar based in Southeast Asia to chair Southeast Asia Council since the Council's founding in 1970. SUBSCRIBE now! @Astro Awani https://www.youtube.com/c/astroawani?sub_confirmation=1 Berita lanjut di: http://grid.astroawani.com Astro AWANI LIVE https://www.astroawani.com/video-terkini Social Media: FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/astroawani TWITTER https://twitter.com/501Awani INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/501awani TELEGRAM https://t.me/astroawani #AWANInews

In this Mountaintop, we weave colourful threads of our living stories and ignite our imaginations to co-sense the futures we want. We’ll dive into ourselves and the spaces we occupy to ask the question “where will Sabah be if we continue on our current trajectory?” Then, leaping through the boundaries of time and memory, we explore issues of our territories of life – both land and sea – to visualise and embody counter-divisive practices toward co-creating our re-wilding story of Tanah & Air. For more information, please head to our website: www.foreversabahinstitute.org