16 November 2022
Population growth isn’t automatically good for Indonesia. Developing young people, and helping them to move are both key to economic development.
Tag: migrant workers
30 September 2022
A circular issued in 2001 requires government health care workers to inform the police when they encounter undocumented persons, with some refusing to provide treatment.
18 July 2022
The Malaysian Medical Association says FOMEMA's health screening period can be extended from 30 to 60 days, but not 365 days as this raises the risk of imported cases of infectious disease.
31 December 2021
Fixing the health system to put us in readiness for an Omicron surge and other potential new variants is doable; the harder part is addressing the structural and systemic problems, whether it’s urban poverty, our treatment of migrant workers, or prison overcrowding as a result of punitive drug laws.
21 December 2021
Among 37,662 peninsula-based employers with 152,652 workers’ accommodation facilities inspected as of 30 Nov, the Labour Department opened 1,169 investigation papers, issued 817 compounds, and made 134 court charges.
25 August 2021
Michelle Ng says without a moratorium on immigration laws, there is no guarantee that undocumented persons will be spared from arrests when getting Covid-19 shots at vaccine centres.
27 July 2021
Letter
Inoculating Undocumented Workers Helps In Whole Community-Based Herd Immunity — M. Kula Segaran
The time for the lock-them-up and lock-us-down approach must end. We can do this by treating others as how we want to be treated ourselves.
19 July 2021
Leave no one behind - vaccinating the population, including undocumented migrant workers, is an immediate priority.
9 June 2021
To get migrant workers to cooperate, the authorities need to first start treating them like human beings.
5 May 2021
Letter
Building A Fairer And Healthier World For Migrants — Dr Alia Daniella Abdul Halim, Prof Dr Moy Foong Ming & Prof Dr Noran Naqiah Hairi
An upstream intervention approach at the institutional level together with a multisectoral collaboration is needed to tackle NCDs among migrant workers.