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Calling your wife ugly may become offence<\/h1>\nBy MUGUNTAN VANAR<\/h2>\n
KOTA KINABALU: Calling your wife ugly to humiliate her may soon be considered an offence under proposed amendments to the Domestic Violence Act 1994.<\/p>\n
The amendments will include a clause on emotional violence against women who are currently only protected against physical abuse.<\/p>\n
Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Development Depart- ment director-general Datuk Dr Noorul Ainur Mohd Nur said the aim of proposing the amendment was to safeguard women both physically and emotionally.<\/p>\n
She said emotional violence was a form of abuse that would scar women deeply and lower their self-esteem, rx<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It could be a case when a husband tells his wife she is ugly or humiliates her until she feels emotionally pressured, tadalafil<\/a> She added that they were in the process of bringing the proposed amendments to Parliament.<\/p>\n State Community Development and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun, health<\/a> who closed the seminar organised by the Sabah Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Affairs Department, said in her speech that there was a need for the law to protect emotional violence against women.<\/p>\n She said there were 99 reported cases of violence against women in Sabah in the first quarter of 2009 compared with 220 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n SOURCE: The Star from 28 May 2009 – http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=%2F2009%2F5%2F28%2Fnation%2F3992871&sec=nation<\/p>\n
\n dignity and self-confidence.<\/p>\n
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u009d she told reporters at the end of a seminar on how to curb violence against women at Wisma Wanita here yesterday.<\/p>\n