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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)
Daily Star 17th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi workers (alleged forced labour victims) file police reports against Malaysia’s Mediceram glove company (Ansell’s

Daily Star 15th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi High Commission to Mediceram – ‘Reinstate 170 workers’ in Ansell global gloves supply chain alleged forced labour case in Malaysia
Diplomacy Daily Star 15th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi High Commission to Mediceram – ‘Reinstate 170 workers’ in Ansell global gloves supply

Associated Press World News 10th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi workers protest over unpaid wages and mistreatment claims in Malaysian global supply chain factories (today’s Dhaka human chain protest summaries)
WORLD NEWS Associated Press World News 10th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi workers protest over unpaid wages and mistreatment claims in Malaysian

Daily Star 8th Nov 2025: 152 Bangladeshi workers at Mediceram in Malaysia (Ansell gloves global supply chain) protest forced repatriation, appoint legal counsel
Daily Star 8th Nov 2025: 152 Bangladeshi workers at Mediceram in Malaysia (Ansell gloves global supply chain) protest forced repatriation,

Daily Star 6th Nov 2025: Dream turns into despair for 10 deported Bangladeshi migrants from Mediceram in Malaysia (Ansell/YTY gloves supply chain factory)
Daily Star 6th Nov 2025: Dream turns into despair for 10 deported Bangladeshi migrants from Mediceram in Malaysia (Ansell/YTY gloves

Malaysiakini 6th Nov 2025: New Malaysian migrant worker ‘syndicate’ rules spark scandal in Nepal as millions in bribes allegedly paid to intermediaries to secure recruitment market
Malaysiakini 6th Nov 2025: New Malaysian migrant worker ‘syndicate’ rules spark scandal in Nepal as millions in bribes allegedly paid

Daily Star 5th Nov 2025: Malaysia’s Mediceram, in Ansell’s global gloves supply chain, forcibly and involuntarily sends back 10 Bangladeshis
Bangladesh Daily Star 5th Nov 2025: Malaysia’s Mediceram, in Ansell’s global gloves supply chain, forcibly and involuntarily sends back 10

Malaysiakini 4th Nov 2025: ‘10 conditions to supply migrant workers will revive syndicate’ in Malaysia, say international groups
Malaysiakini 4th Nov 2025: ‘10 conditions to supply migrant workers will revive syndicate’ in Malaysia, say international groups B Nantha

Daily Star 4th Nov 2025: MEDICERAM IN MALAYSIA – 190 Bangladeshis in Ansell global gloves supply chain fired for protesting exploitation
Daily Star 4th Nov 2025: MEDICERAM IN MALAYSIA – 190 Bangladeshis in Ansell global gloves supply chain fired for protesting

For Immediate Release/ITV News Video 2nd Oct: Qatar Court Overturns Andy Hall’s Conviction, Prison Sentence and Fine at Doha Appeal Hearing
For Immediate Release/ITV News Video 2nd Oct: Qatar Court Overturns Andy Hall’s Conviction, Prison Sentence, and Fine at Doha Appeal

FMT 24th Sept 2025 My Op Ed – Japanese accountability, Malaysian impunity: the Kawaguchi saga
FMT 24th Sept 2025 My Op Ed – Japanese accountability, Malaysian impunity: the Kawaguchi saga Japanese accountability, Malaysian impunity: the

FMT 20th Sept 2025: Panasonic, rights group reach historic settlement over 250 ‘unpaid’ Bangladeshi former Kawaguchi workers in Malaysia
FMT 20th Sept 2025: Panasonic, rights group reach historic settlement over 250 ‘unpaid’ Bangladeshi former Kawaguchi workers in Malaysia Panasonic,
Fundraise for Andy Hall to Overturn Unjust Conviction for Whistleblowing: Qatar
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.
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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
*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)*
*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)
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Associated Press Video: Bangladeshi workers protest over unpaid wages and mistreatment claims
*Story Malaysia 15th Nov 2025: Bangladeshi workers employed by glove co. Mediceram supplying to major multinationals protest alleged rights abuses & forced deportations; incl. cos. responses*
Andy Hall
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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Bangladesh objects to Malaysia's conditions over recruitment syndicate fears: Asif Nazrul
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'Only a small number of recruiting agencies would get the opportunity, and that is something we do not want,' he says