Bangladeshis who came to Malaysia before August 2015 as a tourist or labourer can apply for legal worker status. But agents are making money by promising all migrant workers that they can help them obtain legal status. Even the main company involved with the legalization process of migrant workers, MYEG, is taking advantage of workers. […]
Month: July 2016
The maltreatment of migrants has led to many deaths and brought disgrace to the country besides obstructing long-term economic progress. By Joshua Woo Sze Zeng in Free Malaysia Today The Nepalese embassy’s recent report of 461 deaths of its workers in 2015 is a 32% increase from the 348 deaths in 2014. That is an […]
Almost 50 percent of migrant workers in Malaysian detention camps are from Bangladesh. The conditions here are often cruel and inhuman. The Bangladesh High Commission says there is lack of supervision in the camps; many of the charges against workers are not true. (As broadcast on Ekattor TV, Bangladesh.)
Survivors of human trafficking are entitled to assistance, protection and access to justice regardless of their residence status or whether perpetrators are identified and prosecuted. By James Nayagam in Free Malaysia Today The US State Department has just released the 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report placing Malaysia on the Tier 2 Watch List. This is […]
To avoid arrests, illegal/ undocumented workers in Malaysia are now living in forests and abandoned warehouses. Since they don’t have a visa or employment papers, they are in conflict with the police. On one hand, helpless Bangladeshi migrant workers are not getting jobs; on the other hand they cannot pay back the money they have […]
It is estimated that one out of every seven people on earth, more than one billion individuals are directly impacted by remittances Migration, media and remittance are interlinked. If safe migration is ensured, and if we get the total remittances through formal way/ proper channel, the whole scenario of migration will be positively changed, and […]
These migrant workers came to Malaysia via illegal sea routes and are passing their days in fear. They told Ekattor TV how their fellow travelers were submitted to brutal physical torture and some died of lack of food. Despite being able to earn a few Ringgit every month, they are destined to be unhappy. (As […]
वैदेशिक रोजगार विभागबाट श्रम स्वीकृत लिएर इसुवा साफी बिदा हुन धनुषाको नवाखोर पर्साई–२ स्थित घर पुग्छन् । कतार जान लागेका उनले जहाजको टिकट पनि लिइसकेका हुन्छन् । ३२ वर्षीय साफी घरमा भेटघाट गरेर काठमाडौं फर्किन ‘नाइट बस’ को टिकट पनि किन्छन् । राजधानी नफर्किंदै अचानक उनलाई घरमै ज्वरोले च्याप्छ । परिवारले उपचारका लागि छिमेकी दरभंगा […]