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Women candidates share their agenda for women
JOHOR POLLS | Amid the prevalence of partisan politics that sometimes cloud the policy significance of important issues, women leaders are looked to for a more compassionate perspective than their entrenched male counterparts.

A key issue that has made the headlines in recent weeks is the struggle of single mother Loh Siew Hong, who was denied access to her three children after her now-jailed husband unilaterally changed their religion.

Oblivious about the need for a mother's love or unnecessarily raising the children as orphans when they aren't, powerful men were more interested in dictating their religion and how they should be raised.

In conjunction with International Women's Day today, Malaysiakini reached out to women candidates contesting in the Johor polls and asked them...

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