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Title:	The reproductive rights of children in Malaysia
Authors:	Mary George (P65992)
Supervisor:	Noor Aziah Hj. Mohd Awal, Prof. Dato'
Keywords:	Domestic relations -- Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	Sep-2020
Description:	Social issues of children engaging in sex, high rates of teenage pregnancies, baby dumping and child sexual abuse are prevalent in Malaysia. This sets the basis for exploring the reproductive rights of children in Malaysia using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framework. The Convention as an international standard imposes on member states expectations in dealing with issues relating to the child's rights but there may be perceivable gaps in meeting Convention requirements with that of the socio-cultural environment in Malaysia. The objective of this research is to investigate and analyse the national and international framework under which children's reproductive rights are addressed in Malaysia and applying a socio-legal approach, to identify whether there are gaps in the law and policies currently in place. This socio-legal research involves contextualising the state of the law and policies with a qualitative dimension comprising semi-structured interviews of stakeholders within the system and girls residing in a government shelter home. The research found that in seeking access to sexual and reproductive health services, the outcomes for the child were at times governed by the child's inability to provide effective consent to medical treatment and the medical practitioner's observance of mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse. A significant number of stakeholders were of the opinion that the child's rights were violated in the perpetuation of child marriages. The majority of the stakeholders stated that children would benefit from comprehensive sexuality education in schools. Medical practitioners should be given the discretion to decide whether a child is a mature minor and has sufficient understanding and intelligence to understand the treatment being proposed. Where reporting was mandated by the law, the medical practitioner should record the wishes and feelings of the child. Sex education in schools has to be reviewed.,Certification of Doctoral Thesis" is not available.
Pages:	416
Call Number:	C45.MAR 2020 2 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Law / Fakulti Undang-undang

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