The Parliament has failed in its duty to the nation and people, in particular Malaysian women. It has shirked its responsibility to redeem itself and punish the
two sexist BN MPs who have brought shame and dishonour to Parliament by the use of derogatory, crude, vulgar, sexist and gender-offensive attack on Sdri Fong Po Kuan and all Malaysian women on Wednesday, 9th May.
Since Parliament is not prepared to do what it should do to redeem its honour and those of Malaysian women and the nation, it is now up to the ordinary Malaysian public to do what Members of Parliament and Ministers have failed to do – by making their condemnation of the sexist conduct of the two BN MPs loud and clear to the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the country!
In conjunction with the above incident, DAP is organising the following forum entitled “Respect Women's Dignity, Towards A 1st World Parliament!”
Date: 17 May 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: YMCA Hall, Kuala Lumpur.
No.95, Jalan Padang Belia, Off Jalan Tun Sambanthan, 50470 Kuala Lumpur
(Opposite of the KL SENTRAL Station)
The panel of distinguished speakers include:
- Ambiga Sreenevasan - Bar Council President
- Maria Chin Bte Abdullah - Executive Director of Women Development Collective (WDC)
- Zainah Anwar - Executive Director of Sisters in Islam
- Azmin Ali – Vice-President of Parti KeADILan Rakyat
- Lim Guan Eng - Secretary-General of DAP
- YB Lim Kit Siang - Parliamentary Opposition Leader
- YB Teresa Kok Suh Sim - MP for Seputeh
- YB Fong Po Kuan - MP for Batu Gajah
I will be chairing the above forum as the moderator, so do come join us for the session. ;)