Sisters In Islam (SIS) are again outraged that Kelantan has issued directives on dressing for women. The latest is the Kota Baru Municipal Council's circular asking Muslim women not to use heavy lipstick nor wear high-heels as they could lead to immoral activities. Read more here.
Wait a second, why so serious SIS? Why are you so outraged over something so harmless such as this? What is so surprising about “guidelines on how Muslims should dress”, after all, they are just guidelines. Are you reading it as an “order”?
Besides, did you not read the Quran my dear Ms Norhayati Kaprawi? What is it about the guide that you haven’t already know? For Heaven sake, the directives on dressing for women are from Allah. Even my 10 year-old niece is familiar with it. It is not something new if you have been reading the Quran you know.
I am aware that one of your objectives is to create public awareness on issues of equality, justice, freedom, dignity and democracy in Islam, but you are totally going towards an opposite direction. Are you trying to say that the guideline will somehow make women less equal than man?...
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Catlett once claimed that the accounting community has constructed and developed a motivated notion called accounting – it is designed to accomplish certain objectives; not the objective per se.
CSR is provision of information about various facets of an organization social performance, including information about its environment performance, health, support of local community etc. Unlike financial reporting, it is largely unregulated. It is done on a voluntary basis.
The core issue in CSR is the openness of the CSR definition. Because CSR is largely unregulated, managements can take a variety of interpretations. They can report anything they wish, from receiving minor environmental award to paying billions of dollars of environmental fines. They can even choose to report only favorable information and omit unfavorable information, and claim themselves as CSR.
There is a question of substance over form and reliability in CSR reporting. For example, McDonald’s CSR reports about its efficient water usage at its outlet but did not report that each of its quarter-ponder requires 600 gallons of water. It also reports about its practice of recycling paper but did not report about the bacteria-infested waters caused by its large-scale pork production in Southeast U.S. This...
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