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We are a group of Malaysian doctors who are passionate about the academic and scientific discourse of non-medical cultural practices that affect women and children, and of health inequalities experienced by minority groups in Malaysia.

30/12/2025

✨ 2025 Year in Review ✨

From launching bilingual parent resources on FGM/C, to regional and global advocacy, webinars, workshops, and international conferences, 2025 has been a year of collective action, learning, and impact for Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children.

Together with partners, communities, healthcare professionals, researchers, and advocates, we amplified survivor-centred voices, challenged harmful practices, advanced endometriosis and period poverty advocacy, and strengthened regional and global collaborations, from Malaysia to London, Colombo, Cape Town, and Bogotá.

Thank you to everyone who walked this journey with us. The work continues—towards dignity, equity, and health for all women and girls.

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30/12/2025

✨ 2025 Year in Review ✨

From launching bilingual parent resources on FGM/C, to regional and global advocacy, webinars, workshops, and international conferences, 2025 has been a year of collective action, learning, and impact for Malaysian Doctors for Women & Children.

Together with partners, communities, healthcare professionals, researchers, and advocates, we amplified survivor-centred voices, challenged harmful practices, advanced endometriosis and period poverty advocacy, and strengthened regional and global collaborations; from Malaysia to London, Colombo, Cape Town, and Bogotá.

Thank you to everyone who walked this journey with us. The work continues: towards dignity, equity, and health for all women and girls.

24/12/2025

Wishing everyone peace, hope, and joy this festive season. May the holidays bring warmth, strength, and togetherness as we look ahead to a brighter year.

Thank you for standing with us and supporting women everywhere.

10/12/2025

Human Rights Day: 10th December 2025

This year’s theme: “Our Everyday Essentials”, shines a light on how human rights are not optional extras, but the basic building blocks of daily life.

At we believe that women’s rights are human rights. Women have:
• The right to bodily integrity is an everyday essential.
• The right to safe digital spaces is an everyday essential.
• The right to education, support and protection — online and offline — is an everyday essential.

This Human Rights Day we call on everyone:
✅ Recognise that rights matter every day, not just on special occasions.
✅ Challenge practices and norms that undermine rights whether in clinic, community or digital feed.
✅ Support organisations working to safeguard rights for women and girls, especially in digital spaces.

When human rights are treated as essential, we ALL benefit.

09/12/2025

Our last book recommendation for the 16 Days of Activism is Lads, Lads, Lads: A Guide to Respect and Consent by Alan Bissett (2023).

Bissett speaks directly to boys and young men about masculinity, boundaries, consent and responsibility. The book challenges harmful gender norms and encourages readers to question behaviours that can lead to harassment or violence.

During the 16 Days, it’s an important reminder that preventing violence against women also means engaging men and boys in conversations about respect, empathy and accountability.

Call to action:
Share resources that open honest conversations with boys and young men. Promote consent culture, challenge harmful stereotypes and encourage everyone to step up against gender-based violence.

08/12/2025

Our third book recommendation is The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain (2022).

Hossain exposes how women’s pain is dismissed, under-treated or ignored in health systems around the world, and how women of colour face even greater barriers, bias and life-threatening consequences. The book argues that these inequalities are not accidental, but built into structures that privilege some lives over others.

During the 16 Days of Activism, this is a powerful reminder that gender-based violence also occurs through medical neglect, racial bias and the disbelief of women’s suffering. When healthcare fails to recognise women’s pain, it reinforces harm rather than healing.

Call to action:
Listen when women speak about pain. Amplify research, acknowledge racism in medicine, and advocate for healthcare that truly values every woman’s life.

07/12/2025

Our second book recommendation for the 16 Days of Activism is Black and Blue: One Woman’s Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu (2023).

Sandhu shares her lived experience as a senior police officer navigating sexism, racism, and institutional discrimination within policing. Her memoir raises critical questions about who is protected, who is listened to, and how systemic prejudice silences women of colour in spaces meant to deliver justice.

During the 16 Days of Activism, it reminds us that violence is not only physical — it is also institutional, cultural and structural. When institutions fail women, especially minority women, they reinforce the very harms they are meant to prevent.

Call to action:
Read, reflect, and challenge the systems that enable prejudice. Listen to women’s voices — especially those speaking from inside the structures we urgently need to change.

06/12/2025

Our book recommendation: Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health by Sophie Harman (2024).
Harman exposes how women’s health is consistently deprioritised, underfunded, and overlooked – not because of a lack of evidence, but because of the systems and power structures that decide whose health matters.

From reproductive justice to gender-based violence, digital harms to medical bias, this book confronts the uncomfortable truth: women are often left to navigate health systems that were never designed with them in mind.

During the 16 Days of Activism, it’s a powerful reminder that improving women’s health is not just about medicine: it’s about rights, accountability and dismantling inequality.

Call to action:
Read widely, question norms, amplify women’s health research, and challenge the structures that silence or sideline women’s experiences.

05/12/2025

The Green-top Guideline No. 53 sets out essential clinical guidance on FGM/C — and its message aligns strongly with global positions from FIGO and WHO:
FGM/C has no medical benefit, poses significant short- and long-term harms, and must never be performed by healthcare professionals.

The guideline outlines best practices for identifying and supporting survivors, emphasising trauma-informed care, safeguarding responsibilities, and the importance of culturally sensitive communication. It also highlights the duty of clinicians to protect girls at risk and to document and report concerns appropriately.

These principles echo FIGO’s and WHO’s unequivocal stance against the medicalisation of FGM/C. All three bodies affirm that performing FGM/C violates professional ethics, reinforces harmful norms, and endangers women and girls — whether carried out in a clinic or a community setting.

As we observe the 16 Days of Activism, this reminder is timely:
Healthcare providers must be champions of safety and rights, not channels through which harmful practices gain legitimacy.

Call to action:
Share evidence-based guidance, challenge the normalisation of FGM/C in any setting, and support training that empowers clinicians to respond with knowledge, compassion and accountability.

04/12/2025

During a webinar with global experts on FGM/C in May 2025, OGSM reiterated that FGM/C is harmful in every form and that medicalisation does not make the practice safe. The discussion highlighted the growing influence of social media in shaping public perception and the urgency of ensuring that harmful practices are not normalised by those in positions of medical authority.

Call to action: If you come across content that frames FGM/C as acceptable or medically routine, report it, challenge it, and share evidence-based information. Help keep both healthcare spaces and digital platforms safe for women and girls.

03/12/2025

The UNFPA joint statement makes one thing clear: medicalising FGM does not make it safe–it embeds a harmful practice into the very system meant to protect women and girls.

And in a year where the 16 Days of Activism calls us to UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls, we cannot ignore how social media is being used to legitimise FGM. When doctors or clinics post FGM content online, harmful narratives spread faster, reach younger audiences, and give violence a digital platform.

Medical authority plus online amplification creates real-world harm.

Call to action:
If you see FGM being normalised or marketed by health providers online, report it, challenge it, and share accurate resources. Help keep digital spaces safe from content that promotes or disguises gender-based violence.

02/12/2025

This article from South China Morning Post reveals a troubling trend across Asia: the growing medicalisation of female ge***al cutting (FGC). Increasingly, doctors and midwives are performing these procedures giving them an aura of legitimacy and embedding them into the formal health system.

Dr ’s warning is clear: “Medicalising FGM/C may be intended to reduce harm, but it does not make the practice safe. She emphasises that when doctors perform FGC, the procedure often becomes more invasive, more deeply embedded, and more harmful, not less.

In Malaysia, this becomes particularly alarming when doctors present FGC content on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The combination of medical-authority and viral content accelerates misleading narratives: framing FGC as safe, routine or culturally unremarkable, instead of recognising it as a form of gender-based violence and a violation of bodily rights: https://amp.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3328847/growing-medicalisation-female-circumcision-asia-sparks-risk-warnings

Key reflections:
▫️When healthcare professionals carry out FGC, it risks embedding a harmful practice into legitimate systems and blurring the line between care and abuse.
▫️The role of social media means that medicalised practices are promoted visually, rapidly and to young audiences who may not have the context or consent to weigh what’s being shown.
▫️Dr Nazri points out that many doctors are unaware that FGC is a human rights violation or that the procedure has no medical benefit.
▫️The authority of the medical professional + the reach of digital platforms = a dangerous mix when it comes to FGC.

Call to action:
If you see doctors or clinics promoting FGC via social media, especially content that frames it as normal or medical, speak up. Report the content, share accurate resources (such as the patient information leaflet that dispels myths and explains cl****al anatomy), and support advocacy efforts that challenge the normalization of FGC. Girls and women have the right to bodily integrity. Digital spaces must be safe from messages that promote harm, especially when they are backed by medical authority.

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