Tag: Migrant Rights
Rohingya Women Flee Violence Only to Be Sold Into Marriage
The young woman had been penned in a camp in the sweltering jungle of southern Thailand for two months when she was offered a deal.
By CHRIS BUCKLEY and ELLEN BARRYAUG. 2, 2015
GELUGOR, Malaysia — The young woman had been penned in a camp in the sweltering jungle of southern...
Group to tackle human trafficking
Asean’s human rights body said it will be able to tackle the thorny issue of human trafficking in the region without upsetting any of its member countries.
Published: Tuesday August 4, 2015 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday August 4, 2015 MYT 2:07:35 PM
by razak ahmad, akil yunus, rahimy rahim, AND loshana...
Malaysia’s promotion in US trafficking ranking ‘undeserved’
Describing the situation in Malaysia as “grim as ever”, the Washington Post has expressed “surprise” that “habitual offender” Malaysia has been promoted to Tier 2 of the United States State Department’s annual trafficking of persons rankings.
FMT Reporters | August 3, 2015
Washington Post says situation described as “grim as ever”.
KUALA...
Activists call for revamp of trafficking laws
Human rights defenders are urging the government to amend the legal definition of exploitation and stop prosecuting whistleblowers to solve problems outlined in the US Trafficking in Persons report.
Published: 2/08/2015 at 06:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
Human rights defenders are urging the government to amend the legal definition of exploitation and...
Burmese fleeing ethnic and religious persecution become biggest refugee group arriving in US
Burmese residents fleeing religious and ethnic persecution in their country have become the biggest refugee group arriving in the U.S., outpacing other refugees from Somalia, Afghanistan and even Iraq.
By Dake KangPublished August 04, 2015 FoxNews.com
DES MOINES, Iowa – Burmese residents fleeing religious and ethnic persecution in their country have...
Special Report: State Department watered down human trafficking report
In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had grown worse.
Politics | Mon...
ASEAN puts migration, trafficking on agenda
Asean's human rights branch has listed regional guidelines for migration and human trafficking at the top its agenda for next year, the group’s chair said in a statement ahead of meetings in Kuala Lumpur this week.
By Laignee Barron | Thursday, 06 August 2015
Malaysia’s foreign minister, Seri Anifah Aman, told...
The shackles of abuse
The plight of Cambodian migrant maids who suffer abuse by employers in Malaysia is well documented. Less so is the mental damage caused by the overseas trauma, which has led to some returned migrants being chained up by their desperate families
Sat, 26 September 2015 May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
The...
How the Rohingya Have Been Excluded From Myanmar’s Landmark Elections
Their disenfranchisement is part of a concerted state effort to appeal to a growing ultra-nationalist, anti-Muslim movement.
By Robert Hardh and Shaivalini Parmar
November 3, 2015
After almost five decades under despotic military rule, the people of Myanmar will head to the polls on November 8. But hundreds of thousands of...
New Myanmar government to tighten safety after jade mine disaster
Myanmar's newly elected government said on Tuesday it planned to tighten control over the country's poorly regulated jade mines after a landslide swept through a mining encampment, resulting in at least 113 deaths and 100 people still missing.
World | Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:05am EST
HPAKANT, Myanmar | By Hnin...
