Feminist men join movement for women’s equality


Speaking out about sexism that exists in society isn’t a moral or personal judgement on all men, women's rights activist Kelvin Ang points out. Photos: The Star/Yap Chee Hong

Years before the global #HeForShe campaign was launched by UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) in 2014, the women’s rights movement in Malaysia already had an ally in young activist Yu Ren Chung.

The engineering graduate joined Women’s Aid Organisation in 2012, fresh from university.

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