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![21st July 2024: Guardian Exclusive Investigation - Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_5113-300x180.jpg)
21st July 2024: Guardian Exclusive Investigation – Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks
21st July 2024: Guardian Exclusive Investigation – Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks Indonesians
![The seasonal worker scheme allows UK growers to hire around 45,000 people a year on six-month visas](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_4993-3-1-300x169.png)
![The seasonal worker scheme allows UK growers to hire around 45,000 people a year on six-month visas](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_4993-3-1-300x169.png)
16th July 2024: Financial Times – UK food sector should cover migrant workers’ upfront costs, advisers say
16th July 2024: Financial Times – UK food sector should cover migrant workers’ upfront costs, advisers say The UK food
![Migration to Malaysia - Money of all workers who failed to depart as part of alleged criminal syndicate Trafficking Bangladeshi workers for Forced Labour in Malaysia to be refunded](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_4662-1-300x173.png)
![Migration to Malaysia - Money of all workers who failed to depart as part of alleged criminal syndicate Trafficking Bangladeshi workers for Forced Labour in Malaysia to be refunded](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_4662-1-300x173.png)
6th July 2024: Migration to Malaysia – Money of all workers who failed to depart as part of alleged criminal syndicate trafficking Bangladeshi workers for forced labour in Malaysia to be refunded
6th July 2024: Migration to Malaysia – Money of all workers who failed to depart as part of alleged criminal
![PAC chastises govt for running foreign worker recruitment system for six years without contract](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_4495-1-300x180.jpg)
![PAC chastises govt for running foreign worker recruitment system for six years without contract](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_4495-1-300x180.jpg)
3rd July 2024: Decide quickly on direction of migrant worker system in Malaysia, Public Accounts Committee tells govt – Andy Hall says: ‘Impunity, undermining of the rule of law and systemic corruption continue unless a quick fix but long term solution is found’
3rd July 2024: Decide quickly on direction of migrant worker system in Malaysia, Public Accounts Committee tells govt 3rd July
![Somoy News - Bangladeshi High Court orders disclosure of action on Malaysia migrant worker scam (with 500,000+ victims) in 7 days](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_4307-1-1-300x169.png)
![Somoy News - Bangladeshi High Court orders disclosure of action on Malaysia migrant worker scam (with 500,000+ victims) in 7 days](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_4307-1-1-300x169.png)
30th June 2024: Somoy News – Bangladeshi High Court orders disclosure of action on Malaysia migrant worker scam (with 500,000+ victims) in 7 days
30th June 2024: Somoy News – Bangladeshi High Court orders disclosure of action on Malaysia migrant worker scam (with 500,000+
![Le Monde Diplomatique - Are Tour de France bike-makers overlooking forced labour risks for migrant workers in Malaysia and Taiwan? Excellent article by inspirational Bengsten again!](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/14393093698_6705233baa_k-42cbe-300x225.jpg)
![Le Monde Diplomatique - Are Tour de France bike-makers overlooking forced labour risks for migrant workers in Malaysia and Taiwan? Excellent article by inspirational Bengsten again!](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/14393093698_6705233baa_k-42cbe-300x225.jpg)
27th June 2024: Le Monde Diplomatique – Are Tour de France bike-makers overlooking forced labour risks for migrant workers in Malaysia and Taiwan? Excellent article by inspirational Bengsten again!
27th June 2024: Le Monde Diplomatique – Are Tour de France bike-makers overlooking forced labour risks for migrant workers in
![Migrant workers get permission to appeal decision that their case against Dyson (ATA Malaysia forced labour allegations) should not be heard in the English Courts](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_4142-1-300x161.jpg)
![Migrant workers get permission to appeal decision that their case against Dyson (ATA Malaysia forced labour allegations) should not be heard in the English Courts](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_4142-1-300x161.jpg)
26th June 2024: Migrant workers get permission to appeal decision that their case against Dyson (ATA Malaysia forced labour allegations) should not be heard in the English Courts
26th June 2024: Migrant workers get permission to appeal decision that their case against Dyson (ATA Malaysia forced labour allegations)
![Malaysia’s upgrade in US human trafficking index decried as ‘disappointing’ amid migrant worker woes](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/66f4aeeb-a7ce-4245-a48a-dfcce09270ee_341123f6-300x300.jpg)
![Malaysia’s upgrade in US human trafficking index decried as ‘disappointing’ amid migrant worker woes](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/66f4aeeb-a7ce-4245-a48a-dfcce09270ee_341123f6-300x300.jpg)
25th June 2024: SCMP – Malaysia’s upgrade in US human trafficking index decried as ‘disappointing’ amid migrant worker woes
25th June 2024: SCMP – Malaysia’s upgrade in US human trafficking index decried as ‘disappointing’ amid migrant worker woes (includes
![Malaysia upgraded to Tier 2 in US human trafficking report](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/16984be1-imigran-detention-center-pusat-tahanan-resize-bernama-240624-300x188.webp)
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24th June 2024: FMT – Malaysia upgraded to Tier 2 in US human trafficking report (with my immediate comments, critique and response)
24th June 2024: FMT – Malaysia upgraded to Tier 2 in US human trafficking report (with my immediate comments, critique
![Extension of Malaysia’s controversial migrant labour ecosystem (involving BESTINET) a blow to PM Anwar’s reform agenda](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_4065-1-300x169.jpg)
![Extension of Malaysia’s controversial migrant labour ecosystem (involving BESTINET) a blow to PM Anwar’s reform agenda](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_4065-1-300x169.jpg)
24th June 2024 Exclusive Analysis: CNA – Extension of Malaysia’s controversial migrant labour ecosystem (involving BESTINET) a blow to PM Anwar’s reform agenda
24th June 2024 Exclusive Analysis: CNA – Extension of Malaysia’s controversial migrant labour ecosystem (involving BESTINET) a blow to PM
![Labour Recruitment from Bangladesh to Malaysia: Syndicate wins, migrants suffer, country loses](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_3518-1-1024x682-1-300x200.jpg)
![Labour Recruitment from Bangladesh to Malaysia: Syndicate wins, migrants suffer, country loses](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_3518-1-1024x682-1-300x200.jpg)
9th June 2024 – Labour Recruitment from Bangladesh to Malaysia: Syndicate wins, migrants suffer, country loses
9th June 2024: Labour Recruitment from Bangladesh to Malaysia: Syndicate wins, migrants suffer, country loses (excellent summary how bad triumphed,
![The fat cat ruling the Malaysian migrant services roost (allegations of systemic corruption involving Malaysia’s migrant worker management systems)](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/9ea409c2-abfa-40d7-811d-dd551757fd58_6000x4000-300x200.webp)
![The fat cat ruling the Malaysian migrant services roost (allegations of systemic corruption involving Malaysia’s migrant worker management systems)](https://andyjhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/9ea409c2-abfa-40d7-811d-dd551757fd58_6000x4000-300x200.webp)
6th June 2024: Malaysianist – The fat cat ruling the Malaysian migrant services roost (allegations of systemic corruption involving Malaysia’s migrant worker management systems)
6th June 2024: Malaysianist – The fat cat ruling the Malaysian migrant services roost (allegations of systemic corruption involving Malaysia’s
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Why Human Rights Matter to Business?
Risky Business with Darian McBain: Asia
15th January 2024
Why Human Rights Matter to Business with Darian McBain – Interview with Andy Hall – Migrant Worker Rights Specialist
Asian business is changing. Customer demands, government regulations, stakeholder expectations, they are all evolving under the pressure of the environmental crisis. And even the most robust business models are starting to show cracks. But it’s through those cracks that opportunities arrive.
Do you know how to navigate this new normal?
Andy Hall is a human rights defender, a researcher/investigator and activist, and an independent specialist on migrant worker rights.
In this episode of Risky Business, Andy talks about how he uncovered – and helped to tackle – the problem of labour rights abuses in Malaysia’s latex glove industry.
Click HERE to listen
This is brilliant work from Lord Alton in pushing for structural reform to the Seasonal Worker visa scheme.
Structural reform to make the scheme more flexible is essential to tackling exploitation. Workers must be able to move between farms more easily, taking their labour
🍓 It's been revealed that Indonesian workers on UK farms have been sent home within weeks for not picking fruit fast enough.
Migrant workers deserve secure employment & to have their upfront costs covered in advance so they're not saddled with debt.
Indonesian workers who paid thousands of £s to work on a UK fruit farm that supplies highstreet supermarkets have been sacked and sent home for not working fast enough.
Previous reports of Indonesians paying illegal recruitment fees led to a halt in recruitment from the country
My questions in @UKParliament following up Andy Hall’s investigative report on the exploitation of workers using the Seasonal Workers scheme.
Abis baca @guardian , beberapa pekerja dari Indonesia diiming-imingi pekerjaan di pertanian di UK. Tiba di sana, baru beberapa minggu sudah disuruh pulang. Alasannya mereka tidak cukup cepat memetik buahnya.
Pekerja-pekerja ini sudah mengeluarkan lebih dari £2,000, sebagian
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Andy Hall is a British human rights defender and a migrant worker specialist working in Asia, Middle East and the Gulf
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The unending plight of duped Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia - UCA News
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Migration experts say governments and civil societies in both countries have ignored the long-suffering lot