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  2. Human trafficking in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Malaysia ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in February 2009. [1]In 2014 Malaysia was a destination and a source and transit country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced prostitution and for men, women, and children who were in conditions of forced labour.

  3. Prostitution in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Prostitution in Malaysia is restricted [1] [2] [3] in all states despite it being widespread in the country. [4] Related activities such as soliciting and brothels are illegal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the two states of Terengganu and Kelantan , Muslims convicted of prostitution may be punishable with public caning .

  4. Sex trafficking in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Sex trafficking victims in the country are from all ethnic groups in Malaysia and foreigners. Children, [1] [2] people in rural areas and or poverty, minorities, [3] migrants, and refugees [4] [5] are vulnerable. Malaysian citizens, primarily women and girls, [6] have been sex trafficked into other countries in Asia and different continents. [7]

  5. Human rights in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Malaysia, according to Amnesty International, "is a destination and, to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, and men, women, and children for forced labour... Malaysia improved from Tier 3 to the Tier 2 Watch List for 2008 when it enacted comprehensive ...

  6. Women in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Women in Malaysia receive support from the Malaysian government concerning their rights to advance, to make decisions, to health, education and social welfare, and to the removal of legal obstacles. The Malaysian government has ensured these factors through the establishment of Ministry of National Unity and Social Development in 1997 (formerly ...

  7. Illegal immigration to Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Many Filipinas, promised good jobs in other countries by brokers in the Philippines, have been trafficked to Malaysia and are vulnerable to detention by Malaysian authorities for illegal entry. [53] Vietnamese and Chinese traffickers have shifted their prostitution rings to Malaysia, making Vietnamese women the largest number of foreign ...

  8. Women, Peace and Security Index - Wikipedia

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    Intimate partner violence, measured as the percentage of women whom have had a partner in their lifetime and have experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner in the past 12 months. Community safety, defined as the percentage of women and girls older than 15 who were polled by Gallup World Poll and answered that they felt safe walking ...

  9. Censorship in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Censorship is a long term issue in Malaysia which has become more apparent as it attempts to adapt to a modern knowledge-based economy. [1] Despite having in its Federal Constitution that subject to certain conditions, "every citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression" (), Malaysia has consistently sat low on global indexes related to press and media freedom.