Table 3 Timeline of main events in the development of DV policy and the establishment of OSCCs
From: One stop crisis centres: A policy analysis of the Malaysian response to intimate partner violence
1985 | Creation of Joint Action Group against violence against women (JAG) to lobby for a law against domestic violence |
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1991 | JAG presented a Bill on DV to Government |
1993 | National seminar on "Interagency Management of battered women" held in Kuala Lumpur |
1994 | Adoption of the DV Bill |
1994 | First Pilot OSCC in the A&E of the Hospital Kuala Lumpur |
1996 | DV Bill enacted as a criminal legislation |
1996 | OSCC protocol was fully adopted at HKL |
| Â | Creation of a second OSCC in Penang |
| Â | Ministry of Health (MOH) circular on the creation of OSCC at all public hospitals |
Late 90's | NGOs in Kuala Lumpur withdrew from OSCC in Kuala Lumpur |
2004 | MOH official letter to all hospitals to collect information about OSCC |