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We define democracy as inclusive and yet, we often leave women out of the political conversation. There is a gap between the population of women and the political representation of women on both a local and global scale. According to the UN Women, only 24.3 percent of all national parliamentarians were women in February 2019…

The discussion surrounding climate change has always played a significant role in policymaking and advocacy in every country. This is more so in recent times, as the pandemic highlighted the extent of action needed to combat climate change. It is evident that complacency coupled with ignorance not only exacerbates its effects of climate change, but…

All of us learn in school that Malaysia is a democracy. That means we elect our leaders and those in government, whose job is to run the country, and that much is clear at both the national and the state level. Every General Election (GE), we vote for our Members of Parliament (MPs) in Parliament…

Original article was published on 25th November 2020 on The Vibes. TOMORROW, our parliamentarians will be voting on Budget 2021, which will make or break Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s government. While the political battle to become or remain government is ongoing, we cannot forget that this is the most important Budget in the past decade. …

With the pandemic causing a global lockdown, I decided it was best to defer my university entry to 2021 as I felt that it was unsafe to travel and the cost of remote learning did not seem to be worthwhile. As I had a full year until my university year started, I decided that the…

Penebangan hutan merupakan punca masalah banjir menjadi semakin kritikal di Malaysia. Penebangan hutan secara haram atau dibenarkan, memberi kesan besar kepada kestabilan ekosistem, ekonomi dan kebajikan rakyat. Ketika ini, sebilangan rakyat Malaysia menyambut awal tahun 2021 dengan satu lagi gelombang bencana banjir yang besar. Ini bukanlah masalah baharu. Isu nasional ini pasti kedengaran saban tahun.…

The Malaysian Government has recently published its National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) outlining its strategy to achieve coverage by February of 2022. Though the document gives a good overview of the country’s vaccination plan from procurement to vaccination, it omits the minute execution details on several aspects along this value chain.  The missing details A…

On the 22nd of February 2021, I had sat for my first Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia(SPM) paper, Bahasa Melayu(BM). Sitting at my desk with my face mask intact, I remember clearly the disappointment I felt towards the dysfunctional education ministry, as I flipped through the BM paper with a heavy heart. This feeling was not born…

Monumen Taj Mahal merupakan simbol percintaan agung dari Shah Jahan buat isterinya Mumtaz - ia menjadi lambang pengorbanan dan dedikasi agung sehingga akhir hayat beliau. Begitu juga saya umpamakan pergerakan Undi18. Rasa cinta dan dedikasi anak muda terhadap negara boleh dizahirkan melalui peluang yang dibekalkan oleh organisasi belia seperti Undi18. Rasanya ramai yang arif dengan…

In a time where the world’s economies were put on the back-burner , it’s horrifying to learn that deforestation activities continued despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Just last year, Malaysia recorded the loss of 122kha of its natural forests, which is the equivalent of approximately 300 football fields. This is further proof that we need…

“Code Red for humanity”. This was not uttered in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic which engulfed the world in 2020, but as a warning by United Nations secretary-general António Guterres when describing the Sixth Climate Change Assessment Report released by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 last month. “The alarm…

My summer at Undi18 came at an important point in recent Malaysian political history. The endemic had reached its peak and support for the previous government had waned. Businesses closed, families mourned and the rakyats frustrations were palpable. A collective pain had enveloped the country.  As initial cries for help grew into social unrest, grassroots…