Malaysia shelves plan to restrict women traveling abroad alonehttp://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/05/news/Malaysia-Women-Drug-Mules.phpMalaysia's prime minister shot down a plan Monday that would have required women traveling abroad alone to carry a letter from their parents verifying the reason for their journeys.
Foreign Minister Rais Yatim proposed the move over the weekend 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.
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Separately, Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, who is responsible for immigration rules, told reporters that the idea "will not be practical."
"How can we ask an adult person to report to the mother or to her parents? They have to lead their own lives," Syed Hamid said. "We do not discriminate against women."Kudos to the women's rights group who responded to this swiftly and clearly helped kill it before it was put in place.
And a huge Boo, Hiss to the Foreign Minister who proposed this.
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