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Malaysia shelves plan to curb women’s travel
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian Minister has shot down a colleague’s plan to require women travelling abroad alone to carry a letter from their parents verifying the reason for their journey.
Foreign Minister Rais Yatim proposed the move as a way of deterring the use of Malaysian women as couriers for illicit drugs, but the plan immediately drew criticism by women’s rights groups as being repressive .
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, who has final say on immigration rules and would be responsible for implementing any such plan, appeared to close debate on the idea on Monday.
“It will not be practical,” Mr. Syed Hamid said. “How can we ask an adult person to report to the mother or to her parents? They have to lead their own lives.”
“We do not discriminate against women. So long as it is an adult person, it is within their right to travel anywhere,” he said. — AP
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