Tentang SIS Forum (Malaysia)

Sisters in Islam (SIS) is a non-governmental organisation working towards advancing the rights of Muslim women in Malaysia.

SIS was founded in 1988 by a group of Muslim women who came together to address the injustice women face under the Shariah (Islamic law) system. Our critical reading of the Al-Quran through a hermeneutical approach opened a world of Islam that we could recognise: a world for women that was filled with love and mercy, and with equality and justice.

By the end of the 1990s, SIS activism had expended beyond the specific issues of women's rights, into the larger issue of upholding democratic principles and fundamental liberties as guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and human rights treaties and conventions. It was thus that SIS began to take public positions on freedom of religion and freedom of expression.

Today, SIS plays a key role in the local and international women's movement by providing input in understanding Islam from a rights-based perspective, advocacy strategies and networking and is at the forefront of an emerging Muslim women's movement to push for reform both in the understanding of Islam and also influence laws and policies enacted by Muslim governments or groups within minority Muslim communities.