Looking for Malaysian gender champions

FOR her book The War on Women, Sue Lloyd-Roberts interviewed BBC journalist Shaimaa Khalil, who’s an Egyptian.

Says Khalil, “There is this notion that women’s rights are a separate and not important notion of human rights (in Egypt) as a whole. It is a luxury you can deal with after you’ve sorted out other important issues like the economy and security, without considering that women’s rights are part of sorting out security and economy.”