Women’s Centre for Change: Protecting and Supporting Victims of Gender-based Violence
By Karen Lai
June 2024 FEATURE
ACHIEVING SOCIAL CHANGE is impossible through government intervention alone. The scale of contemporary social problems demands the engagement of multiple stakeholders. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), working separately from the government across a broad range of social and political issues, play a critical role as catalysts for transformation.The Women’s Centre for Change (WCC), Penang is an NGO established in 1985 to address the serious issue of gender-based violence (GBV).A global health problem, GBV is estimated to affect one out of three women...
Karen Lai
is the Programme Director of the Women’s Centre for Change (www.wccpenang.org), an NGO in Penang dedicated to ending violence against women and children. Karen practised law for seven years, and has advocated for gender equality and social justice for nearly two decades.
