Business & human rights in Malaysia: A report from Kuala Lumpur, June 2015

Malaysia has been in the international spotlight recently over the Asia migrant crisis.  Authorities have exhumed bodies of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar buried in 139 grave sites in the jungle near the Thai border.  This extreme case of abuse is, however, part of a much wider and under-reported pattern of exploitation of migrants who travel to Malaysia in search of a better life. On a recent mission to Kuala Lumpur, team members from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre spoke with local NGOs, lawyers, academics and companies, to explore the intersection between business and labour abuses of migrant workers - as well as other private sector-related human rights impacts in the country.