by nsiadmin | Apr 12, 2023 | Government/Policy/Enforcement, Health/Abuse, Housing/Hostels, Rights/Protections, Year 2023
On the 10th of April, 226 workers from Bangladesh and Nepal were rescued from horrible living conditions at a transit home in Negeri...
by nsiadmin | Mar 23, 2023 | Domestic Workers, Health/Abuse, Rights/Protections, Wages, Year 2023
Migrant rights groups questioned the government’s commitment to end exploitation of domestic workers after the latest bilateral agreement signed with Cambodia made no mention of a minimum...
by nsiadmin | Jan 21, 2023 | Government/Policy/Enforcement, Rights/Protections, Year 2023
Giving employers a grace period of six months to comply with labour laws only after they have brought in migrant workers will open up risks of exploitation, said a migrant rights activist.https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/652348
by nsiadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Year 2022, Health/Abuse, Migrant Initiatives, Rights/Protections
Migrants and refugees in the country need to be provided with awareness programmes and better social protection, say non-governmental groups in the wake of the case of a Myanmar father who threw his children off the...
by nsiadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Government/Policy/Enforcement, Refugees/AsylumSeekers, Rights/Protections, Year 2022
The government recently approved the adoption of the Tracking Refugees Information System (TRIS), which will require all UNHCR card holders to submit personal and biometric information that then allows them to be tracked and surveilled by the Home...
by nsiadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Rights/Protections, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Human Trafficking, Year 2022
With Malaysia remaining in Tier Three in the US State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report 2022, we ask migrant rights activist Adrian Pereira why we continue to rank at the bottom on this...
