Thursday 30 June 2022

Kematian di Depoh Tahanan Imigresen

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From Simraatraj Kaur Dhillon and Farah Mohd Anuar

A well-known minister recently made an unconcerned remark about the deaths of migrants in the Sabah immigration detention facilities. The minister shows a lack of empathy in bearing the mandate to oversee the immigration department and its operation.

In reality, procedural standards within these detention centres are extremely poor. Detainees are rarely informed of the reasons for detention and they have little to no access to legal counsel.

NGOs have repeatedly reported on the serious problems relating to places of detention, notably the harsh living conditions which fall short of minimum standards. It can also be seen that the rise in the number of people detained has not been matched by an increase in the necessary resources.

Claims about the poorly-maintained detention centres and mistreatment of detainees are evidenced in a report titled “A Report From Hell: Conditions Of The Immigration Detention Centres In Sabah, Malaysia” released by the Sovereign Migrant Workers Coalition (KBMB). There is no way for the home ministry to dodge the allegations.

The report outlined that all of the immigration detention centres in Sabah are:

  1. Deliberately neglecting sick detainees and not providing timely medical services to prevent detainees’ illnesses from developing into severe and fatal consequences.
  2. Deliberately not referring sick detainees to a healthcare centre before their illnesses worsen.
  3. Deliberately not providing the necessary human resources, health facilities, and medicines in the detention centres, except for the Tawau detention depot which carried out health checks (tuberculosis tests) for detainees.
  4. Deliberately not making efforts to fulfil the right to health for detainees.

The fact remains that cases of deaths inside immigration detention centres are actually preventable. In addition, the high mortality rate, whereby 149 Indonesians died in five Sabah detention centres over 18 months between 2021 and 2022, demonstrates the need to review health standards and the living conditions at the centres.

It is high time that the government assess the human rights violations in immigration detention centres in light of international human rights norms and standards.

As suggested in a report by the Global Detention Project, a few key questions may be considered by the government:

  1. What steps are the government taking in order to ensure more migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees do not die in detention centres?
  2. Does the government have plans to provide non-custodial measures for the most vulnerable detainees, such as pregnant and lactating mothers, refugee women and girls, as well as those with medical and mental health needs?
  3. How can the government guarantee that refugee women and girls are protected against sexual violence and exploitation during detention?
  4. Does the government keep track of the number of men, women, and kids who are held in immigration detention centres each year? Does it make these statistics available to the general public?

We support the call from the report to improve the conditions and treatment of detainees in immigration detention facilities. These recommendations include:

  1. Providing a place of detention with basic facilities (detention room, bed, food, drinking water, clothing, toilet) that is appropriate and sufficient.
  2. Improving the health facilities in immigration detention centres, increasing visits by health workers, and facilitating access to hospitals to avoid preventable deaths.
  3. Reviewing and stopping the punishment of caning, which causes pain, and handcuffs. To ensure that there are no more incidents of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment.

We hope that there will be real political action by the government to address these issues, as the fact persists that the information on severe abuse of immigration detainees can no longer be ignored.

 

Simraatraj Kaur Dhillon and Farah Mohd Anuar are research and advocacy analysts at Bait Al Amanah.

Immigration depot deaths an urgent wake-up call for Malaysia (msn.com)

Thursday 1 April 2021

Rampasan Kuasa Tentera di Myanmar

 

Rampasan kuasa di Myanmar berlaku pada pagi 1 Februari 2021 tidak lama selepas Pilihanraya Umum Myanmar yang dijalankan pada 8 November 2020. Dalam peristiwa ini, parti pemerintah iaitu Liga Demokrasi Kebangsaan (NLD) yang dipimpin oleh Aung San Suu Kyi telah dijatuhkan oleh Tatmadaw atau tentera Myanmar yang kemudian memegang kuasa secara stratokrasi.

Tatmadaw mengisytiharkan tempoh darurat selama setahun dan kuasa pemerintahan dipindahkan kepada Jeneral Min Aung Hlaing, Ketua Pemerintah Perkhidmatan Pertahanan Myanmar. Tatmadaw mengisytiharkan bahawa keputusan Pilihanraya Umum yang dijalankan pada tahun lepas sebagai tidak sah dan menyatakan bahawa ia akan mengadakan semula pilihanraya pada penghujung tempoh darurat walaupun warga Myanmar keseluruhannya berpuas hati dengan keputusan pilihan raya.

Bacaan Lanjut

Kredit Gambar: BuzzFeed News 

Wednesday 25 July 2018

Pekerja Migran

Pekerja migran merujuk kepada seseorang yang berhijrah dalam negaranya sendiri atau ke luar negara bagi mendapatkan pekerjaan seperti kerja bermusim. Pekerja migran biasanya tidak berniat untuk tinggal selamanya di negara penerima atau rantau yang menerima mereka.

Pekerja asing yang bekerja di luar negara asal mereka boleh dipanggil sebagai pekerja asing atau ekspatariat, terutamanya apabila mereka dihantar atau dijemput bekerja di negara penerima sebelum meninggalkan negara asal mereka.

Pertubuhan Buruh Antarabangsa menganggarkan dalam 2014 bahawa terdapat 232 juta migran antarabangsa di seluruh dunia. Mereka diperkira berada di luar negara asal sekurang-kurangnya 12 bulan dan kira-kira separuh daripada mereka dianggarkan aktif secara ekonomi (bekerja atau mencari pekerjaan). Sesetengah negara mempunya jutaan pekerja asing. Sesetengah pekerja migran boleh jadi adalah pendatang haram. Sesetengahnya pula boleh jadi dijual sebagai hamba.

Rujukan:

  • Protecting Migrant Wokers Labor Human and Worker Rights - Ensuring Effective Redress (online)
  • Migrant Workers Alliance (online)
  • Migrant Workers, UNSW, Australia (online)   




Monday 30 April 2018

Bahasa ASEAN

Buat rencana dan rujukan dalam bahasa Melayu dahulu kerana lebih mudah.

Rujukan
  • Yes, I Speak Bahasa ASEAN, Asean Economic Community (AEC) by Edmund Sim.
  • Malaysian PM thinks Malay should be the language of ASEAN, Asian Correspondent  (online)
  • ASEAN Languages, Easy English Style Kru Pawm (Wordpress)

Sunday 16 April 2017

ASEAN - Badan Serantau Asia Tenggara


Berikut adalah maklumat mengenai Pertubuhan Negara-Negara Asia Tenggara (ASEAN). Bahagian ini diperbuat dalam bahasa Melayu dalam usaha untuk memperkukuh bahasa Melayu sebagai salah satu bahasa ASEAN. 

ASEAN ditubuhkan pada 8 Ogos 1967 di Bangkok, Thailand. Negara-negara anggota awalnya iaitu Indonesia, Malaysia, Filipina, Singapura dan Thailand telah menandatangani Perisytiharan ASEAN atau Perisytiharan Bangkok bagi melengkapkan penubuhan ASEAN. 
Negara anggota ASEAN terdiri daripada Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Filipina, Kemboja, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapura, Thailand dan Vietnam. Sehingga kini, ASEAN mempunyai sebanyak 10 negara anggota. Sila klik pada nama negara yang disebutkan ini untuk mengakses maklumat lanjut mengenai negara yang menarik perhatian anda. 
Terjemahan: Happy Buffalo
Sumber: Laman Sesawang Urusetia ASEAN
Tarikh: 17 April 2017 (Isnin)

ASEAN Notional Calender 2017

Just to keep track on events and meetings at the regional level.

Kindly click the source to access information.

Source: 2017 Notional Calender, ASEAN-Malaysia National Secretariat as of 7 March 2017

Thank you.

Sunday 12 March 2017

ASEAN Secretariat Updates 2017

This part is dedicated to updates made at ASEAN secretariat level. While I would have to check on events related to human rights at the regional level, I would have to check other angles such as economic and political impacts on regional human rights. 

March 2017
April 2017
May 2017
June 2017
August 2017
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017

Source: ASEAN Secretariat