by nsiadmin | May 11, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Racism/Xenophobia
North-South Initiative’s Adrian Pereira suggests ways to tackle misinformation on migrants and address distress facing these workers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_PPYjLygg
by nsiadmin | May 11, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Racism/Xenophobia
North-South Initiative’s Adrian Pereira says crackdown on undocumented migrants will not help the country get out of the pandemic faster. He urges ramping up vaccination for this high-risk community.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_PPYjLygg
by nsiadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Health/Abuse, Rights/Protections
Migrant workers amidst the pandemic in the Global South have gone through the same experience as those who are displaced. The health crisis has brought the plight of migrant workers to another level, in what it is considered here as ‘abandonment’....
by nsiadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement
MALAYSIA is in a Catch 22-situation when it comes to the employment of foreign workers, a predicament it has been in for decades. https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/state-nation-malaysia-foreign-worker-quandary
by nsiadmin | Apr 5, 2021 | Health/Abuse, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Housing/Hostels, Year 2021
The living quarters of migrant workers in Kajang, about 30 kilometres from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, were like a buffalo cage – dirty and smelly. In a December raid, Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister M Saravanan was shocked and horrified to discover that...
by nsiadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Health/Abuse, Housing/Hostels, Year 2021
IN Southeast Asia, migrant workers at the bottom rungs of society have borne the brunt of Covid-19. https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2021/01/660033/migrant-workers-poor-living-conditions-fuel-southeast-asias-covid-19
by nsiadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Government/Policy/Enforcement, Health/Abuse, Rights/Protections, Year 2021
Putrajaya has been urged to demonstrate consistency in its stance on undocumented migrants if it wants to convince them to come forward for free Covid-19...
by nsiadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Year 2021, Detention Center, Government/Policy/Enforcement, Raids, Refugees/AsylumSeekers
Two activists have called for government policies that will enable refugees and migrants to maintain their welfare under the state of emergency and the movement control order...
by nsiadmin | Jan 10, 2021 | Year 2021, Government/Policy/Enforcement
An online post by Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, where he touted the country’s foreign direct investments (FDI), resulted in backlash when the European-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce (Eurocham Malaysia) chief executive officer chided the finance minister for not...
by nsiadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Year 2021, Access to Justice, Supply Chains
Malaysia is drawing up dozens of charges against a rubber glove maker supplying the U.S. and other countries after labor inspectors found the firm’s migrant workers living in squalid, congested...
