Press statement - June 8, 2021 – UMA The Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) today called on the Philippine government to protest Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin’s announcement of a total crackdown on undocumented workers in Malaysia. The...
The planned crackdown on undocumented migrant workers is a state-endorsed violence aimed at the most vulnerable group of people in the country. Rounding them up has never been a good strategy and more so at the time of a pandemic. It raises concerns of possible new...
Calling for endorsement of the petition to the YAB Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The press statements by YB Dato’ Seri Hamzah Zainudin, Minister of Home Affairs on 29 May 2021 and 3 June 2021 have created the perception among many that the government has...
Press Statement by Labour Law Reform Coalition on 30 April 2021 in Shah Alam In conjunction with Labour Day 2021, Labour Law Reform Coalition (LLRC) calls on the government to explain whether it has suspended the labour law reform exercise indefinitely. Since the...
Pemerintah mengadakan program 'Rehiring' tiga tahun lalu untuk memberikan kesempatan pekerja migran mendapatkan dokumen resmi. Sumber foto: Bernama, diambil dari Free Malaysia TodayPETALING JAYA: Organisasi pengusung hak asasi manusia di Malaysia Tenaganita...
The government launched a ‘Rehiring Programme’ three years ago to legalise undocumented migrant workers. (Bernama pic)PETALING JAYA: A migrant rights body has asked the government where the millions of ringgit collected in 2016 from foreign workers who were not issued...
Estate Society Support Committee demanding for Housing Law. Source: ESSCKUALA LUMPUR: A group of estate workers held a peaceful demonstration outside the Parliament building today to urge the government to enact an estate housing law to guarantee the workers permanent...
Komite Pendukung Masyarakat Perkebunan menuntut Undang-Undang Perumahan bagi pekerja Kebun. Sumber: KPMPKUALA LUMPUR: Sekelompok pekerja kebun melakukan aksi damai di luar gedung Parlemen Malaysia (4/12) untuk mendesak pemerintah Malaysia memberlakukan undang-undang...
Introduction On 28-29th November 2023, an international conference on “Just Transition in the Palm Oil Industry” was held in Sambas, West Kalimantan in Indonesia. The conference was attended by 140 participants, mainly from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia,...
Bogor, October 3, 2026 - The monoculture plantation industry relies heavily on the use of agrochemicals, both pesticides and chemical fertilizers, to boost crop productivity. This is inseparable for massive profit accumulation by plantation giants. Consequently,...
How can we achieve a just transition in the palm oil industry? Currently, Indonesia is burning. Besides the climate crisis, a major cause is the palm oil industry with its monocultures, deforestation, land grabbing and burning of peat grounds. While the 16...
What would our future look like when our presence is rooted in monoculture? What would climate governance look like under the supremacy of monoculture? Indonesians, from commoners, bureaucrats, elites, to even those who are afflicted by monocrop economy have this...
Syngenta is an agrochemical firm, headquartered in Switzerland and owned by the Chinese conglomerate ChemChina since 2017. Together with Bayer-Monsanto, BASF and Corteva, these four companies dominate the market [1] for pesticides [2], commercial seeds, and...
Transnational Palm and Oil Labour Solidarity (TPOLS) Network is urging the Indonesian government to immediately declare the forest and land fires (Karhutla) in Kalimantan and Sumatra a national disaster and to end impunity for corporations damaging the environment....
