All publications: Malaysia
Labour migration
The future of work and migration
Thematic background paper for the 12th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Women migrant workers
Public attitudes towards migrant workers in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
Public support for migrant workers remains limited in key destination countries in ASEAN, reveals a joint ILO/UN Women report warning against discriminatory attitudes and practices against migrant workers.
Women migrant workers
Mobile women and mobile phones: Women migrant workers’ use of information and communication technologies in ASEAN
The joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region (part of the multi-year EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls) undertook a qualitative...
Fact sheet
Employment and environmental sustainability in ASEAN
The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact sheet for ASEAN is part of a series providing a baseline for key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance in 36 countries across Asia and the Pacific. These indicators...
Fact sheet
Employment and environmental sustainability in Malaysia
The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact Sheets series provides key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance. They include: (i) employment in environmental sectors; (ii) skill levels; (iii) vulnerability of...
Business responsibility on preventing and addressing forced labour in Malaysia: Training facilitator’s guide
This guide is intended to be used by facilitators to deliver interactive training to employers on how to take practical actions to assess, identify and manage risks of forced labour in company operations, including supply chains. This complements...
Forced labour
Business responsibility on preventing and addressing forced labour in Malaysia: A must-read guide for Malaysian employers
This guide provides practical guidance to employers on how to identify risks of forced labour in company recruitment, employment and sourcing practices, and how to effectively prevent and eliminate these risks. It is intended for company managers...
Women migrant workers
Regional Planning Meeting for Promoting ASEAN Women Migrant Workers’ Rights through Organizing
The report centres women migrant workers' freedom of association and collective bargaining, identifies the challenges to their organizing, and puts forward recommendations to strengthen women migrant workers' leadership and participation in labour...
Women migrant workers
Changing Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Women Migrant Workers in ASEAN: Technical Regional Meeting
This report sets out key areas of learning from the meeting, analyses why communication can be an effective tool for changing attitudes and behaviours, and explores some tools and approaches used to enhance communication for behavioural change.
Digitalization to promote decent work for migrant workers in ASEAN
Thematic background paper for the 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Migrant workers
Implementation of recommendations from the 3rd to 10th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Progress review background paper for the 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Factsheet: Forced Labour - the preventive role of Malaysian employers
This factsheet is developed by the project “From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour” (Bridge) in collaboration with the Malaysia Employers Federation (MEF) to raise Malaysian employers’ awareness on how to prevent...
Country leaflet
The ILO in Malaysia
This Country Leaflet gives an overview of ILO activities in Malaysia. It summarizes the ILO’s history in the country, and outlines the work undertaken by the ILO in cooperation with the government and social partners on a wide range of work and...
TRIANGLE in ASEAN Independent Mid-Term Evaluation (Cluster)
TRIANGLE in ASEAN: Independent Mid-Term Evaluation Summary
Migrant workers empowerment and advocacy (MWEA project)
Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers through Empowerment and Advocacy in Malaysia builds capacities of trade unions, civil society organizations (CSOs) and migrant associations to deliver higher quality assistance and rights education to migrant...
Labour migration
Worker-paid migration costs in the Viet Nam-Malaysia corridor
This report seeks to shed light on the migrant worker-paid migration costs in an important migration corridor: Viet Nam to Malaysia.
Migrant workers & social protection
Social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN: Developments, challenges, and prospects
This report provides an overview of the developments, challenges, and prospects of social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN.
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Monitoring and evaluation training manual for migrant worker resource centres
This manual provides tailored training materials to support effective monitoring and evaluation of activities at migrant worker resource centres.
Employment injury and invalidity insurance in Malaysia – A good country practice
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