Human Trafficking In Malaysia News

Fortify rights noted malaysia s low ranking in the most recent u s. About 84 per cent of palm plantation workers in malaysia or some 337 000 workers are migrants from countries including indonesia india and bangladesh. Malaysia s low conviction record highlights gaps in its anti trafficking law since an offense can only be proven if there was physical coercion said human rights lawyer edmund bon from amerbon.

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Malaysia was ranked in may as a tier 2 watchlist country the report s second lowest ranking over inaction on the wang kelian.

Human trafficking in malaysia news. Malaysia is a destination and to a lesser extent a source and transit country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons specifically conditions of forced prostitution and for men women and children who are in conditions of forced labour. The majority of trafficking victims are foreign workers who migrate willingly to malaysia from indonesia nepal india thailand china. Pahang police chief datuk abd jalil hassan with the seized heroin in kuantan june 10 2020.

The exploitative practices centring bangladeshi workers in malaysia constitute nothing other than human trafficking. Malaysia secured 140 human trafficking convictions between 2014 and 2018 despite launching more than 1 600 investigations and identifying almost 3 000 victims. Kuantan june 10 pahang police have crippled a human trafficking syndicate with the arrest of 11 men including a myanmar national who were believed to be syndicate agents in a raid in three districts in the state.

The report was released by the us state department on june 25 2020. The governments of bangladesh and malaysia have not been able to protect the workers rights said irene fernandez a veteran migrants rights activist of malaysia. The cbp ban comes after rights groups called on us authorities last year to investigate fgv over concerns about forced labour and human trafficking on its plantations.

Department of state s trafficking in persons tip report which gauges how countries worldwide are performing in combating human trafficking. Huzir said this was the third phase in the police s ongoing plan to eradicate human trafficking in malaysia with the first stage conducted before the movement control order mco and the second. The 2007 anti trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants atipsom act amended in 2010 and 2015 criminalized labor trafficking and sex trafficking and prescribed punishments of three to 20 years imprisonment and a fine which were sufficiently stringent and with respect to sex trafficking commensurate with those prescribed for other serious offenses such as rape.

For the third consecutive year malaysia remains on the tier 2 watchlist of the trafficking in persons report.