Fernandez: It's the gov't that has shamed Malaysia



Tenaganita executive director Irene Fernandez currently lambasted a supervision for job her "a shame" for highlighting a plight of displaced person workers.
Instead, she said, it was a supervision which had tarnished a country's image.
This follows Deputy Human Resources Minister Maznah Mazlan receiving a swipe at Fernandez as unethical, inaccurate as well as unpatriotic, for revelation theJakarta Postthat Malaysia was not a protected place for displaced person workers, as well as troublesome Indonesia from promulgation its workers here.
NONEAt a press conference today, Fernandez (left) forked out a Malaysian supervision had instead shop-worn a nation's repute by still being upon a United States watch list upon tellurian trafficking for two years.

"Who has tarnished a picture of this country if not this government?" she pronounced mockingly.
The activist, who for two decades has been fighting for displaced person workers' rights additionally pronounced which she would usually be unpatriotic if she remained silent.

"We lifted a issue so which changes could be made. It is consequential as well as important for good governance," she said.

On a authorities' notion which her statement has cast a shadow over Malaysia-Indonesia shared relations, she went a step further to question what had caused a freeze upon Indonesian workers from being sent to Malaysia.

"It has been three years since a preference , it wasn't since of my statement, though since of a outcry over tellurian right violations," she said.

'Those who called me a hypocrite should apologise'

Before a necessary steps are in place, she held organisation to her earlier statement which Ma! laysia i s not protected for displaced person workers.

"I will not apologize (for a statement) since we have not done anything.

"Those who called me a hypocrite should apologise," she said.

According to Fernandez, Tenaganita, a Malaysia Bar as well as alternative NGOs had called for a supervision to come out with a extensive process upon displaced person workers, though a latter instead "institutionalised practices which crippled a rights of migrants".

She pronounced a single such example is a amendment done to a Employment Act final year to include outsourcing companies as well as work contractors as "employers", both of which, she claimed, have a purpose in traffic! king per sons for labour.

She forked out which Malaysia, has among others, additionally abstained from signing a general Domestic Workers Convention; denies undocumented workers entrance to nredress; excludes domestic workers from a Employment Act; as well as was lackadaisical in permitting coercion officials as well as employers to withhold migrants' passports.

"Dismissing these cases as removed incidences does not change a reality... This is a complicated form of slavery," she claimed.

She urged a supervision to stop being in a state of denial, as well as address a omission as well as elect of a rights of displaced person workers.

Meanwhile, Fernandez claimed which she has informedThe Jakarta Poston several misquotes in a inform published upon Monday as well as a latter has concluded to do corrections.

The mistakes, she claimed, include statements which she pronounced Malaysian employers will pay a police as well as court; as well as undocumented workers were not punished since they paid a police.

She pronounced a Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned her for an talk upon Friday since of her statement, though details were not given.
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