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Consider This: Mandatory Death Penalty | Reforming Sentencing Laws

The Bill to abolish the mandatory death penalty has been tabled for its first reading in the Dewan Rakyat, along with amendments to abolish "natural life imprisonment" and to replace "life imprisonment" with a capped duration. On #ConsiderThis we ask our guests about sentencing reform and the shift from retribution to rehabilitation.

27 MIN • 28 March 2023

Consider This: Syria | Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis

The February earthquakes compounded the already dire humanitarian crisis for millions of Syrians, who were already living as refugees from 12 years of civil war. On #ConsiderThis we ask our guest for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also known as Doctors Without Borders.

28 MIN • 27 March 2023

Consider This: PPR Households - Ensuring Decent Shelter for Urban Poor

The Program Perumahan Rakyat project, or PPR, is a programme meant to offer transition housing for the urban poor, with the hope that they would eventually improve their financial prospects and ‘graduate’ to own or rent homes in the private market. It’s been more than 2 decades now since the PPR project was launched in 2002—has it achieved what it set out to do? On this episode of Consider This, Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Suraya Ismail, Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute, and co-

26 MIN • 24 March 2023

Consider This: Maternity Leave | Gender Bias In Hiring?

Some employers say they now prefer to hire men because paid maternity leave has been extended to 98 days. On #ConsiderThis we ask the guests why there's resistance & how best to address unintended consequences of gender-sensitive policies.

26 MIN • 22 March 2023

Consider This: Environment | More Than Words?

Not only have we lost 350,000ha of forest between 2017-2021 but we're set to lose another 2.3mil hectares already earmarked for deforestation. Tonight on International Day of Forests we speak to Adam Farhan about RimbaWatch's exposé of Malaysia's deforestation crisis #ConsiderThis 

24 MIN • 21 March 2023