Andy Hall
Migrant worker rights specialist blogging at www.andyjhall.org (andy@andyjhall.org) living in Nepal, focused on migration in/from Asia, exploring Himalayas, investigating the unreported.
- ‘Warlord-run corrupt nation’: Latheefa fumes over Bestinet article, govt silence - Malaysiakini m.malaysiakini.com/news/766779
- Launch probe into alleged trafficking of Bangladeshi workers and Malaysia abuse Bloomberg report, govt told www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...
- Bangladesh-Malaysia labour route rife with corruption: Bloomberg report www.thedailystar.net/news/news/ba...
- *23rd Jan 2026 Bloomberg World Exclusive on Alleged Criminal Syndicate Trafficking Bangladeshi Workers for Forced Labour in Malaysia | The Big Take: EVERYONE GETS A CUT, AND MIGRANT WORKERS PAY THE PRICE* andyjhall.org/2026/01/23/2...
- 23rd Jan 2026 Bloomberg World Exclusive on Alleged Criminal Syndicate Trafficking Bangladeshi Workers for Forced Labour in Malaysia | The Big Take: EVERYONE GETS A CUT, AND MIGRANT WORKERS PAY THE PRICE By Anders Melin and Niki Koswanage 23 Jan 2026 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- *14 Jan 2026 PRESS RELEASE: UK High Court rules that forced labour and exploitation claims against Dyson (ATA Malaysia case) will be tried next year* andyjhall.org/2026/01/14/1...
- High Court of Malaysia appointment coming up on Wednesday 7th January, please continue to support this MediCeram campaign fnd.us/a2fGp7?ref=s...
- It’s been a busy 2025. Lots of things happened in my orbit, as always. Some progress and success, yet also challenges and despair. As is nature and life, there was lots of happiness, sadness, joy, pain, suffering and every emotion in between. The higher the highs, the lower the lows.
- One can only feel real joy and delight by enabling oneself to feel real pain and despair also. Indeed, there was birth, death, re-birth and re-becoming (and marriage and separation too). All together, all inseparable. Wishing the best for 2026, from London, UK.
- More MediCeram workers allegedly deported in contempt of a court order to Bangladesh, MWN in collaboration with the workers, submitted complaints. For emergency case fundraiser see fundrazr.com/stories/8MvI...
- Complaints on 29th and 30th Dec 2025 to ✔️ Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment, Bangladesh ✔️ Bangladesh High Commission, Kuala Lumpur ✔️ Malaysian High Commission, Bangladesh See MWN FB page www.facebook.com/share/1821t8... Latest updates andyjhall.org/2025/12/26/f...
- Today we got an historic injunction in the High Court to prevent more forced repatriations of former Mediceram workers, but still company repatriated 26 workers this evening. We need funds to keep fighting in the courts, to cover legal fees. DONATE now! fundrazr.com/a2fGp7?ref=a...
- *FMT 26th Dec 2025: Bangladeshi workers obtain court injunction against mould manufacturer Mediceram (Ansell supplier) in Malaysia* andyjhall.org/2025/12/26/f...
- Migrant Welfare Network Press Release 26th Dec 2025: In Landmark Migrant Rights Precedent, Malaysian Court Grants Emergency Injunction Against Involuntary Repatriations by Ansell, YTY, Top Glove and Qube Modern Slavery Tainted Malaysian Supplier MediCeram www.facebook.com/share/p/1BzR...
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- Migrant Welfare Network Press Release 26th Dec 2025: In Landmark Migrant Rights Precedent, Malaysian Court Grants Emergency Injunction Against Involuntary Repatriations by Ansell, YTY, Top Glove and Qube Modern Slavery Tainted Malaysian Supplier MediCeram www.facebook.com/share/p/1BzR...
- *DONATE NOW: Emergency Legal & Protection Fund for Migrant Workers Facing Forced Repatriation (Malaysia)* Emergency Appeal: Stop the Forced Repatriation of Migrant Workers in Malaysia. Please support victims of alleged modern slavery and forced labour now. fnd.us/a2fGp7?ref=s...
- 19th Dec 2025: Forced labour and involuntary repatriation abuse allegations - Mediceram former worker representatives petition SUHAKAM (Malaysian Human Rights Commission) www.facebook.com/share/p/16ip...
- *19th Dec 2025: Forced labour allegations in the supply chain (Mediceram, Malaysia) of an Australian company (Ansell): Statement by Australian Anti Slavery Commissioner* News Forced labour allegations in the supply chain of an Australian company www.antislaverycommissioner.gov.au/news/forced-...
- For background see: andyjhall.org/2025/11/23/a...
- On International Migrants Day 2025, I did something special, unique and innovative. I worked to support migrant workers. Thankyou to the migrant workers I engage for their continued inspiration.
- PUBLIC MEETING STOP MODERN SLAVERY IN ANSELL’S SUPPLY CHAIN Use the QR code to join the forum via zoom, 4:30pm Tues 16 Dec: Date: Tuesday 16 Dec Time: At 4: 30PM Melbourne time
- Urgent Appeal | 15 December 2025 End involuntary repatriations, intimidation, and ongoing rights abuses against Bangladeshi migrant workers linked to MediCeram Sdn Bhd—a supplier to Ansell, YTY, Top Glove and Qube. #StopForcedRepatriation www.facebook.com/share/p/1JuB...
- Urgent Appeal | 15 December 2025 End involuntary repatriations, intimidation, and ongoing rights abuses against Bangladeshi migrant workers linked to MediCeram Sdn Bhd—a supplier to Ansell, YTY, Top Glove and Qube. #StopForcedRepatriation www.facebook.com/share/p/1JuB...
- *Justice for 177 Bangladeshi Migrant Workers at Mediceram, Malaysia* Please share this petition now www.change.org/p/justice-fo...
- *Campaign: Justice for 177 Bangladeshi Migrant Workers at Mediceram, Malaysia* Sign up at: c.org/rvHM8rNTrM
- NEWS 6th Dec 2025: Syndicate exploiting (trafficking) Bangladeshi workers for forced labour in Malaysia exists, agent tells Bangladesh court m.malaysiakini.com/news/762497
- *Justice for 177 Bangladeshi Migrant Workers at Mediceram, Malaysia* Sign up at: c.org/rvHM8rNTrM
- A weekend with my sister (finally) in London 🇬🇧
- *Human Rights Watch/ United Nations (UN) Nov 26th 2025: Rampant Labour Abuses Against Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in Malaysia (Alleged Criminal Syndicate Trafficking Bangladeshi Workers for Forced Labour in Malaysia/Mediceram)* andyjhall.org/2025/11/27/h...
- *26th Nov 2025: International Solidarity Campaign: Justice for the 177 Fired Mediceram Workers* Stop Forced Deportations, Passport Confiscations and All Forms of Threats — Defend the Rights of Bangladeshi Migrant Workers Exploited in Malaysia! sosialisalternatif.org/internationa...
- Today met Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Ms Pichamon Yeophantong to submit MWN’s complaint letter to UN agencies on ongoing forcible return to Bangladesh from Malaysia of alleged #Mediceram forced labour victims www.facebook.com/share/p/17ZU...
- Negotiations between #Mediceram @AnsellProtects glove company unfairly dismissed Bangladeshi worker representatives (180 workers) and company management at Negeri Sembilan Industrial Relations Department (JPP), observed by the Bangladesh HC, break down www.facebook.com/share/1BcdLs...
- This evening in Geneva, Switzerland I had to gate crash a closed meeting of the Malaysian government at Intercontinental Hotel on their National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights 2025-2030 (a side meeting to UN Forum on Business Human Rights) www.facebook.com/share/p/1D5R...
- I did this as more than 100 former unfairly dismissed MediCeram workers (Ansell supplier) from Bangaldesh have now been forcibly returned from Malaysia to Bangladesh, as of today.. and still counting.
- NAP is not just paper exercise, often funded and actually written (as is my experience working in Myanmar) by UN agencies like UNDP and ‘supportive’ foreign donors. A NAP should be a living reality on which governments are challenged or even ridiculed if it’s worthless in reality
- UN special rapporteur on slavery Tomoya Obokata condemns Mediceram/Ansell forced deportations of alleged forced labour victims today in Geneva after our meeting to discuss MWN complaint submission on the case. See www.linkedin.com/posts/tomoya...
- *MWN 24 Nov 2025: another 17 former and unfairly dismissed Mediceram workers forcibly deported back to Bangladesh from Malaysia today* MWN✊💪 www.facebook.com/share/r/1CmE...
- *TPBS 23rd Nov 2025: Bangladeshi workers pay up to RM30,000 for jobs in Malaysia - Former Malaysian plantations minister speaks out in dhaka* www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/m...
- *24th Nov 2025: Mediceram forcibly cancels visas and involuntarily deports Bangladeshi migrant workers, denying workers the right to attend industrial tribunal hearing today - workers speak out on landing in Dhaka* youtu.be/nRQ-4_Ropds?... See also at www.facebook.com/share/v/16T2...
- Managing to have a few hours walk to clear my head this evening in the snow ❄️ ⛄️
- MWN 23rd Nov 2025: Police and agent together ensure 31 more unfairly dismissed former Mediceram workers forcibly deported from Malaysia back to Bangladesh www.facebook.com/share/v/17so...
- Tears of injustice, corruption, impunity and inhumanity today as police and agent forcibly deport more unfairly dismissed Mediceram workers back to Bangladesh #Mediceram #Malaysiaboleh www.facebook.com/share/r/1K7s...
- Bound for UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to assist MWN to submit complaints against neglect, corruption, inhumanity and impunity of Bangladesh & Malaysian governments re: #Mediceram case and other systemic migrant worker rights abuses
- *21st Nov 2025 Green Left AUS: Bangladeshi workers (alleged forced labour victims) in Ansell’s supply chain (Mediceram, Malaysia) face deportation* andyjhall.org/2025/11/21/2...
- *United Nations (UN) NEWS RELEASE 21 Nov 2025 - Malaysia: UN experts sound alarm over continued systematic exploitation of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia (alleged criminal syndicate trafficking Bangladeshi workers for forced labour in Malaysia)* andyjhall.org/2025/11/21/u...
- *20th Nov 2025: Statement of Mediceram Workers to be Involuntarily Repatriated This Weekend on Yesterdays Bangladeshi High Commission KL Visit* 🇧🇩 Update of yesterday's BD High Commission meeting, the frustration of Mediceram workers deepened. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Brz...
- Malaysia reopened its labour market for Bangladeshi workers, but attached "unacceptable" conditions, which may pave the way for the re-emergence of a recruitment agency syndicate, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Adviser Asif Nazrul said today (19 Nov). www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/m...
- *Daily Star 17th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi workers (alleged forced labour victims) file police reports against Malaysia’s Mediceram glove company (Ansell’s global supply chain)* andyjhall.org/2025/11/17/d...
- *16th Nov 2025: Police report of Bangladeshi workers in Nilai reveals terrible injustice by some Malaysian employers including Mediceram again!* (Google Translate from Bangladeshi language) www.facebook.com/share/p/1A9j...
