{"id":20877,"date":"2019-12-02T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.klscah.org.my\/?p=20877"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:26:02","slug":"review-5th-civil-society-award-year2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/2019\/12\/20877.html","title":{"rendered":"Winners of The 5th Civil Society Award 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, civil societies in Malaysia experienced numerous obstacles. We fight on and in doing so, the civil society plays an important role. We are proud to say that we have chosen the road to democracy, freedom, human rights and peace, which is the right path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014\u2014 KLSCAH Deputy President Mr Tan Hong Aik<\/p>\n

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The 5th Civil Society Award received 8 nominees, they are KTI, Dapur Jalanan KL, Maria Chin Abdullah, ENGAGE, Zunar, Save Rivers, Gabungan Selamatkan Petani dan Penternak Negeri Perak and Justice for Sister. After the general elections of 308 and 505, civil societies in Malaysia developed in a more matured way. Thus, most of the nominees were organizations based.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo source: Malay Mail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First Winner: Maria Chin Abdullah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reason for award:
\nMaria has become an activist in Malaysia dating back to the 1980s. She was active in the All Women\u2019s Action Society (AWAM<\/span>),<\/span> and<\/span> Women\u2019s Development <\/span>Collective,<\/span> and later founded Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower). She played an <\/span>important<\/span> role in BERSIH\u2019s transition to BERSIH 2.0 as a civil society-led coalition and led BERSIH 4\u2019s iconic 34-hour rally.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Second Winner: Justice For Sisters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reason for award:
\nJustice for Sisters won a landmark judgment at the Court of Appeal, which said Section 66 of the Negeri Sembilan Shariah Criminal Offences Enactment 1992 is unconstitutional and therefore null and void. The group made up of those from the transgender community and human rights activists made the courageous decision to launch a judicial review against a section in the law.<\/p>\n

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Third Winner: SAVE Rivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reason for award:
\nSAVE Rivers has managed to project the struggle of indigenous peoples against mega-dams in Sarawak onto the national platform. The network has succeeded in highlighting the campaigns led by natives in rural communities to people in towns not only in East Malaysia but also in cities such as Kuala Lumpur in Peninsular Malaysia. They linked their campaigns with the national indigenous peoples\u2019 network, as well as lobbied KL-based organizations to shine a spotlight on the ongoing violations faced by Indigenous activists and rural communities in their resistance against these mega projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years, civil societies in Malaysia experienced numerous obstacles. We fight on and in doing so, the civil society plays an important role. We are proud to say that we have chosen the road to democracy, freedom, human rights and peace, which is the right path. \u2014\u2014 KLSCAH Deputy President Mr Tan Hong Aik The 5th Civil Society Award received 8 nominees, they are KTI, Dapur Jalanan KL, Maria Chin Abdullah, ENGAGE, Zunar, Save Rivers, Gabungan Selamatkan Petani dan Penternak Negeri Perak and Justice for Sister. After the general elections of 308 and 505, civil societies in Malaysia developed in a more matured way. Thus, most of the nominees were organizations based. First Winner: Maria Chin Abdullah Reason for award: Maria has become an activist in Malaysia dating back to the 1980s. She was active in the All Women\u2019s Action Society (AWAM), and Women\u2019s Development Collective, and later founded […]\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":20874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-klscah-event-summary","category-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/78620101_10156695421242592_792656469542567936_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39189,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20877\/revisions\/39189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klscah.org.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}