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COMMENT | Malaysia can't afford another failed migration system

COMMENT | Malaysia can't afford another failed migration system

Without regulated, transparent framework, we risk a quiet reshaping of exploitation.

COMMENT | US trafficking report ranking upgrade: Not yet a victory

COMMENT | US trafficking report ranking upgrade: Not yet a victory

Govt urged to address critical areas for improvement to effect meaningful change.
COMMENT | Treat migrant workers with dignity and decorum

COMMENT | Treat migrant workers with dignity and decorum

Put their occupational safety and health before profit.
COMMENT | Diplomatic missions should adopt victim-cetric approach

COMMENT | Diplomatic missions should adopt victim-cetric approach

Migrant workers should not be mistreated by their last bastion of hope.
COMMENT | Are we complicit in abuse of domestic workers?

COMMENT | Are we complicit in abuse of domestic workers?

Today is International Migrants Day. Not many domestic workers are celebrating.
LETTER | Temporary work permits for migrants can't substitute proper policy

LETTER | Temporary work permits for migrants can't substitute proper policy

Let it not be a repeat of problems faced during previous 'legalisation' programmes.

LETTER | Why do we continue to penalise the most vulnerable in our society?

LETTER | Why do we continue to penalise the most vulnerable in our society?

LETTER | Is this not clearly the making of an imperialist state?

Allow refugee children to join our schools

Allow refugee children to join our schools

COMMENT | If Bangladesh can give refugee children access to education, Malaysia should be able to do the same.

Establish the right to work for all refugees in M'sia

Establish the right to work for all refugees in M'sia

LETTER | This will be in line with upholding the Malaysian spirit of recognising harmony in diversity.

Plantation migrant workers deserve better

Plantation migrant workers deserve better

COMMENT | Their crass output-based wage system is dehumanising and views them simply as factors of production.

Home Ministry should rethink crackdown on undocumented migrant workers

Home Ministry should rethink crackdown on undocumented migrant workers

LETTER | Previous enforcement ops have consistently failed to produce any beneficial results.

Women workers in palm oil plantations - a neglected sector of M'sian labour

Women workers in palm oil plantations - a neglected sector of M'sian labour

COMMENT | Many women workers are exposed to highly toxic chemicals, and earn less than RM40 per day.

Special court useful to combat human trafficking

Special court useful to combat human trafficking

LETTER | Specialised courts will do better in dealing with a particular problem.

Malaysia is an accomplice to human trafficking

Malaysia is an accomplice to human trafficking

LETTER | Human trafficking one of the worst crimes against humanity, and the nation has blood on our hands.

Ending gender based violence

Ending gender based violence

LETTER | Violence towards women happens all too frequently and there is a need for a safe environment for them. 

Rohingya suicide attempt symptom of the humanitarian crisis

Rohingya suicide attempt symptom of the humanitarian crisis

'M'sia should focus on the larger issue of genocide and ethnic cleansing within our own Asean community.'

End enslaving of maids, address root causes

End enslaving of maids, address root causes

COMMENT | M'sia must end abuse and exploitation instead of turning to poorer countries to recruit.

Becoming visible and gaining recognition as workers

Becoming visible and gaining recognition as workers

This Labour Day on May 1, Tenaganita remembers the hundreds of thousands of local and migrant women who raised and continue to raise millions of Malaysian children; who care for the elderly; who clean our homes and clothes; who cook and who carry out the countless chores that need to be done so that our lives are managed and made all the more easier.
Remembering Irene Fernandez

Remembering Irene Fernandez

COMMENT | She was co-founder of Tenaganita Women’s Force and Mother of Migrants.
Immoral and unjust to increase levy on migrant workers

Immoral and unjust to increase levy on migrant workers

COMMENT | Already lowest paid and most exploited, this will further erode their income.
Free, prior informed consent required to enter TPPA

Free, prior informed consent required to enter TPPA

Tenaganita urges all Members of Parliament to study the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) carefully and to ensure that they thoroughly understand the full implications of the proposed trade agreement in its entirety before voting on it. Mere assurances given by government ministers cannot and should not be the basis for supporting the proposed trade agreement.
What will be the status of Syrian refugees in M’sia?

What will be the status of Syrian refugees in M’sia?

It is very clear, with the tremendous amount of conflict in Syria, with thousands of them fleeing around the world for their lives, we certainly welcome the announcement of our prime minister in accepting 3,000 refugees from Syria over the next three years, but the question arises as to what will be their status in Malaysia? What are the protective mechanisms in place for them? Will they be given preferential treatment like the Bosnian refugees in the 1990s?
Our continued disrespect for migrant rights

Our continued disrespect for migrant rights

COMMENT The country breeds a system of extreme forms of exploitation.