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?
Bernama
September 21, 2007 20:36 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 (Bernama) — Cuepacs today urged consumers to boycott goods whose prices have been indiscriminately raised by traders.
Bernama
September 20, 2007 19:02 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (Bernama) — The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC)
today called on the government to revert to its old policy of allowing employers
to recruit foreign workers directly on their own in accordance with their needs.
Malaysiakini
Syed Jaymal Zahiid
Sep 20, 07 6:36pm
The move to form an Islamic-based labour organisation has been viewed as divisive
and counter-productive to the workers’ struggle by Malaysian Trade Union
Congress (MTUC) president Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud.
The Star
By ELIZABETH LOOI
Wednesday September 19, 2007 MYT 6:05:33 PM
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) wants the Human Resources Ministry to solve the problem of Bangladeshis stranded at the KL International Airport.
Beaten and brutalised in Malaysia . . . and elsewhere
The Daily Star
Editorial
Syed Badrul Ahsan
2007-09-19
It is a most healthy condition when the government of a country chooses to be firm with that of another. When the Bangladesh authorities lodged a complaint with the Malaysian government sometime ago against the Kuala Lumpur firm responsible for the plight of about a hundred Bengali workers in the country, it did what was expected of it.
The Daily Star
Abdul Alim
2007-09-19
The manpower export sector is at a crossroads of immense opportunities and
challenges that it has never experienced before. New markets have already opened
up, or are opening up, or waiting due approach from us to open up. The resistance
of the developed countries to cross-border mobility of labour is not paying
off for them.
Rights body blames HC in KL for abuse
Staff Correspondent
2007-09-18
The Bangladesh high commission in Kuala Lumpur must be held accountable for
the abuse and deplorable conditions suffered by its own citizens, said Tenaganita,
a migrants and women rights organisation in Malaysia.
The Daily Star
Porimol Palma
2007-09-18
Everybody looks at the bundle of money that the overseas workers, mainly the
poor people of the country, send back home, but no one inquires what working
conditions they undergo and ultimately how they actually benefit from their
employment far from their relatives and homeland.
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