The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) has called for the legal recognition of femicide and stronger protection against intimate partner violence following a spate of killings involving women and girls across Malaysia.

Femicide is the intentional killing of a woman or girl because of her gender, often linked to misogyny, gender inequality, or violence and abuse by an intimate partner or family member...

Femicide is the intentional killing of a woman or girl because of her gender, often linked to misogyny, gender inequality, or violence and abuse by an intimate partner or family member.

On Oct 9, 16-year-old student Irene Sofiya Khairool Faisal was found unconscious and covered in blood in a school hall at a secondary school in Yong Peng, Johor. She was later pronounced dead.