Signing UN treaty not a must to grant refugees work rights


Ragananthini Vethasalam

Advocacy group Refugee Action for Change says Malaysia does not need to be party to the UN Refugee Convention to implement laws recognising and upholding the rights and welfare of refugees in the country. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, January 16, 2020.

MALAYSIA need not wait to be party to the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention to grant refugees the right to work legally, said advocacy group Refugee Action for Change (ReAct).

For more than a year now, the government has mulled a proposal to allow refugees to seek employment, but it last month said a cabinet sub-committee was further studying the idea.


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