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The Education Ministry says it will hold another special recruitment of new teachers to address the current shortage of teachers nationwide, especially in the subjects of Bahasa Melayu, English, and Islamic Studies. Will a one-off recruitment solve the shortage of teachers, once and for all? On #ConsiderThis we ask our guests about short- and long-term solutions to address the shortage of teachers nationwide. 

Are the proposed amendments to strengthen child protection laws sufficient to close current legal loopholes? On #ConsiderThis we ask our guests about the issues faced by child sexual offence victims in the criminal justice system.

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.

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.

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-author of KRI’s study of 3,800 PPR households, titled ‘Decent Shelter for The Urban Poor’.

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.

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 

Expectations are high for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Administration to continue the reform agenda that started in 2018. But has it been mere lip service? Tonight on #ConsiderThis we speak to the guest about CSO Platform for Reform's report on the Govt’s progress on core reforms in its first 100 days.

In a report released in August 2022, the UN human rights office found China to have committed serious human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The report cited credible evidence of torture, forced fertility controls that have led to a dramatic drop in the birth rate, and the violent suppression of Uyghur culture and faith. Melisa Idris speaks to Nurmuhammad Majid, chairperson of the East Turkistan Human Rights Watch Association based in Istanbul.