Tag: Migrant Rights
Suhakam: Call them ‘undocumented migrants’, not ‘illegal immigrants’
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) is calling for stronger efforts to eliminate the stigma and discrimination faced by migrants in commemoration of International Migrants Day on Thursday.
Published: Thursday December 18, 2014 MYT 12:46:00 PM
Updated: Thursday December 18, 2014 MYT 12:47:48 PM
by victoria brown
PETALING JAYA: The Human Rights...
Making migrant labor a fair deal, not a gamble
'All migrant workers are gamblers. They gamble that they will be migrating safely to a good job, but current systems favor recruiters and employers.'
Yoshiteru Uramoto
Published 8:00 AM, Dec 18, 2014
Updated 8:00 AM, Dec 18, 2014
On a recent trip to Cambodia, I met a group of young people who were...
ASEAN labouring under outdated migration policies
By the end of 2015, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is expected to establish a single market and production base in the region. With an ASEAN overall workforce of more than 300 million people, the AEC will have strong implications in terms of labour migration and human resource development
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Migrant workers continue to be exploited because of their nationality, class and gender
This International Migrants’ Day 2014, we stand in solidarity with workers all over the world in their struggle for dignity and human rights. Migrant workers make important contribution to their countries of origin and destination.
December 18, 2014 by onlinecitizen
This International Migrants’ Day 2014, we stand in solidarity with workers...
Ending exploitation of migrant labor
Fair treatment, without having to gamble with their future or even their physical safety, is what all migrant workers want. It is also the essence of the ILO’s fair migration agenda. We want to see labor migration create a “triple win” for workers, employers and governments, especially as this...
Montagnards hiding; ‘no plan’ for UN trip
As authorities reportedly continued to search yesterday for a second group of Montagnards hiding in Ratanakkiri province, speculation grew that more would arrive in the coming weeks.
Tue, 6 January 2015 | Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
As authorities reportedly continued to search yesterday for a second group of Montagnards hiding...
Degar-Montagnards: UN Meets Asylum Seekers Who Fled Vietnam in November
In November 2014, 13 Degar-Montagnards fled Vietnam, scared away by the religious persecutions ongoing in the country, which followed the discriminations and the confiscation of ancestral land that the community was subject to in the past few decades. After hiding in the jungle of Cambodia for a month, the...
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia to attend ASEAN People’s Forum
Refugees from Myanmar staying in Malaysia plan to attend the ASEAN People’s Forum to be held in Malaysia from April 22 to 25, according to Salai Isaac Khen, a member of the Myanmar Civil Society Working Group, speaking at a press conference in Yangon on January 6.
7 January 2014...
Myanmar protesters gather ahead of UN rights visit
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside an airport in restive western Myanmar on Thursday in protest against a planned human rights visit by a United Nations envoy, police said.
Update: 13:33, 08 January 2015 Thursday
World Bulletin / News Desk
Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, arrived in Sittwe, the capital...
The Rohingya: Who are they? Why are they in Malaysia?
The solution to the plight of the long-suffering stateless Rohingya is plain and simple, writes Francis Loh.
by Francis Loh · 9 January 2015
There have been several newspaper reports about the Rohingya over the past months.
The Star caried three news items about the Rohingyas on 13 November 2014 alone. The...
