The NGOs want women and children refugees to be sheltered in homes or centres instead of being placed in detention centres.
From left to right: Tenaganita programme officer Elise Chen, Alliance of Chin refugee coordinator James Bawi Thang Bik, Tenaganita executive director Glorene Das, and Tenaganita’s Hasna Hussin
At a joint press conference, Alliance of Chin refugee coordinator James Bawi Thang Bik said refugees in Malaysia faced “unstable” and “precarious” lives. Another refugee group representative, Cherryn Certe, urged Putrajaya to pay special attention to vulnerable refugee groups, mainly single mothers, elderly and refugees with serious medical conditions.
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