MIRI: The percentage of low-income earners in Sarawak is higher than the national-level figure, according to a United Nations report on extreme poverty.
The report was compiled by Philip Alston, who is the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Issues.“The situation is more dire in certain states, ” said the report that pointed out that in Sarawak, 15.5% of households have a total family monthly income of less than RM2,000.
Apart from the high rate of low-income households, the other specific areas of human rights issues concerning Sarawak were education, healthcare, statelessness, land rights woes. and other social development issues. Rural children also faced hardship in reaching government-built schools, especially secondary schools, he said.He also noted that those people still without identity cards faced enormous woes in their daily life.
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