PETALING JAYA: The Women's Aid Organisation, entering its 30th year later this month, will lobby for a more substantive interim protection order (IPO) against perpetrators as it currently does not provide sufficient legal protection for abused victims.
WAO executive director Ivy Josiah said the IPO which is valid during the course of a police investigation was not detailed enough in specifying how the perpetrator should be prevented from inflicting further abuse.
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