Tag: Migrant Rights
Editorial: What are the forces driving migration?
The surge of “boat people” arrivals into Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand merits closer enquiry into the issue of regional migration. The majority of the trafficked people are from Myanmar and Bangladesh.
By The Myanmar Times | Friday, 15 May 2015
The surge of “boat people” arrivals into Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand...
Thailand may set up camps for Rohingya migrants
Thailand may set up temporary camps for boat people, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told journalists yesterday, even as a decrepit boat with some 300 desperate Rohingya aboard was found drifting off Koh Lipe island, west of Satun province.
Published on May 15, 2015 5:59 AM
By Nirmal Ghosh, Indochina Bureau Chief...
In refugee crisis, Putrajaya told to lead Asean by example
Malaysia must live up to its position as chair of Asean and the Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) by providing humanitarian aid to refugees of the country’s waters, said PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 — Malaysia must live up to its...
OPINION | History repeating: Rohingya and the Vietnamese, the Philippines and the ASEAN ‘community’
Four decades ago the Vietnamese, too, fled persecution and ethnic tension in search of political and economic freedom. Fortunately for them, the West, at the time, came to their rescue by resettling most of them, my father included. Unfortunately for the stateless Rohingya, no such solution seems to be...
Safeguarding Rights for Migrant Workers: A New Frontier for CSR?
Across the ten member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) labour migration is being accelerated by the new ASEAN Economic Community with its’ specific objective of full integration into the global economy supported by the free flow of labour.
by Mark Leighton [email protected]
Asia and the Pacific is the...
Refugee crisis: ASEAN’s great moral paralysis
Our region faces a full-blown refugee crisis. Thousands of migrants, many of whom are Rohingya Muslims fleeing state-sponsored persecution in Myanmar, are stranded at sea, caught between a home country that denies them citizenship rights and a regional neighborhood seemingly indifferent to their suffering.
Charles Santiago, Kuala Lumpur | Opinion...
Myanmar hits back at international pressure
A senior Myanmar official has lashed out at growing international pressure over the nation’s refusal to engage in talks about the boats floundering in the Andaman Sea while Malaysia yesterday threatened to call an emergency ASEAN meeting to break the deadlock.
By Guy Dinmore | Monday, 18 May 2015
In a...
Malaysian lawmaker asks: Where is people-centered ASEAN in Rohingya refugee issue?
ASEAN, which in the last leaders’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur in April called itself people-centered, should take in the thousands of Rohingya refugees who have escaped persecution in Burma and are stranded in boats off Malaysia and Indonesia.
By: InterAksyon.com
May 15, 2015 4:31 PM
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ASEAN’s Refugee Embarrassment
The Rohingya refugee crisis is quite possibly the greatest embarrassment ASEAN has ever faced.
By Luke Hunt
May 15, 2015
The plight of thousands of Rohingya stuck on rickety boats after fleeing their homes in Myanmar is quite possibly the greatest embarrassment ASEAN has ever faced. And the reality is the 10-nation...
Roots of migrant problem lie in colonialism
Over the centuries, millions have made the perilous journey from South Asia across the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia in search of trade, employment and a better life – sometimes voluntarily, sometimes driven or forced by circumstances.
Nirmal Ghosh | The Straits Times | Publication Date : 14-05-2015
Over the...
