Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO)
Malaysia’s Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) is an independent, non-religious, non-governmental organisation based in Malaysia that is committed to confronting violence against women.
WAO was established in 1982 when it opened Malaysia’s first Women’s Refuge, providing shelter, counseling and child support to battered women.
WAO’s mission is to promote and create respect, protection and fulfilment of equal rights for women and to work towards the elimination of discrimination against women, and to bring about equality between women and men.
WAO is involved in public education to create awareness of Violence Against Women and women’s rights, and does advocacy on legal reform, in particular, policies and laws that discriminate against women.
In 1985, the Anak Angkat (Child Sponsorship) Programme was launched to meet the educational needs of ex-residents’ children. WAO opened a Child Care Centre in 1990, the first of its kind in Malaysia, to provide a home for ex-residents’ children.
For more information, please visit http://www.wao.org.my
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
The mission of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is to organise for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives.
NCADV believes violence against women and children results from the use of force or threat to achieve and maintain control over others in intimate relationships, and from societal abuse of power and domination in the forms of sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, able-bodyism, ageism and other oppressions. NCADV recognises that the abuses of power in society foster battering by perpetuating conditions, which condone violence against women and children. Therefore, it is the mission of NCADV to work for major societal changes necessary to eliminate both personal and societal violence against all women and children.
NCADV’s work includes coalition building at the local, state, regional and national levels; support for the provision of community-based, non-violent alternatives – such as safe home and shelter programmes – for battered women and their children; public education and technical assistance; policy development and innovative legislation; focus on the leadership of NCADV’s caucuses developed to represent the concerns of organisationally under represented groups; and efforts to eradicate social conditions which contribute to violence against women and children.
For more information, please visit http://www.ncadv.org
