Malaysia is one of Asia's biggest employers of foreign labour. But recently, cases of deaths, abuse and forced labour have come to light. What is going on? Who is protecting these migrant workers?
New Straits Times
21 Dec 2006
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has rubbished claims by a top United Nations official that more than a million Indonesian migrants in Malaysia were being tortured.
Bernama
December 21, 2006 11:28 AM
JAKARTA, Dec 21 (Bernama)
— The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indonesia and Malaysia, which
allows employers to withhold the passports of migrant workers, could be classified
as a violation of human rights, a foreign observer said.
New Straits Times
21 Dec 2006
PUTRAJAYA: A proposal to make it easier for employers to cut their
workforce is being studied by the Human Resources Ministry in response to complaints that current labour laws were not flexible enough for global competitiveness.
The Associated Press
December 20, 2006
JAKARTA, Indonesia: More than a million
Indonesian migrant workers in neighboring Malaysia face serious abuses from beatings and rape to forced labor — the bulk of them women and children, the top U.N. official on migrant rights said Wednesday.
The Associated Press
Dec. 20, 2006, 11:48AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia — More than a million Indonesian migrant
workers in neighboring Malaysia face serious abuses from beatings and rape to
forced labor _ the bulk of them women and children, the top U.N. official on migrant
rights said Wednesday.
dpa German Press Agency
Wednesday
December 20, 2006
Jakarta- Indonesian migrant workers in neighbouring Malaysia
face serious abuses ranging from rape, beatings and long hours of forced work,
a senior UN official on migrant rights said Wednesday. Ending a week-long visit
to Indonesia, Jorge Bustamante, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation
of Human Rights of Migrants, blamed the abuses partly on a memorandum of understanding
signed by the two South-East Asian nations, which allows such violations.
Speech by Syed Shahir, President of MTUC at MEFCET Sunway Resort,
Dec 20, 2006
Introduction
I am very pleased to be invited to share
the thoughts and aspirations of the trade union movement of this country on whether
we are on our way to achieving a first class mindset.
ABC
Tuesday, 19/12/2006
Ten Malaysian workers have been arrested after allegedly working illegally on farms
near Menindee, in western New South Wales.
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