Need for laws to protect refugees


UNHCR Representative Richard Towle at the UNHCR office on March 22 2015. The Star/Sia Hong Kiau

AS of January 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) Malaysia has registered 151,770 refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia, with the majority coming from Myanmar.

Of this, 15,380 are children of schooling age (aged six to 17 years).

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