Building inclusive communities, safer spaces

Concrete steps: The government needs to urgently pass the long-awaited Sexual Harassment Bill, which covers sexual harassment in any context, including public spaces. Then the government must also pass an Anti-Stalking law. — Filepic/The Star

EVER so often, we will hear of horrific and violent crimes committed against women and girls in Malaysia.

Among the cases that were widely reported and remain in our collective memory due to their extremely abhorrent and vile nature, is the 2000 murder and sexual assault of computer engineer Noor Suzaily Mukhtar on a bus on her way to work.