The Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill: Over two decades in the making

The lobby for a standalone law on sexual harassment started in 1999. However, the advocacy against sexual harassment began in the 1980s.

The lobby for a law on sexual harassment started in the late 1990s.

“It began in 1999, when the Women’s Centre for Change, Penang received complaints of sexual harassment from six women working in a resort hotel in Penang,” says veteran women’s rights activist Ivy Josiah.