Kuala Lampur, July 15 -- KRYSS Network condemns the online gender-based violence and harassment directed at participants/speakers of "Parlimen Digital" and call for the Malaysian government to take the necessary measures to defend the rights to public and political participation equally for all, and especially for women and girls.

KRYSS Network was impressed with the participation of young people in "Parlimen Digital," an event organised by Undi18, Challenger Malaysia and Liga Rakyat Demokratik, on July 4 and 5. The event showed that there were many issues that young people felt that were not being adequately addressed by the Malaysian government.

They had every right to raise these issues, a right to expression protected under Article 10...