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NEW YORK, U.S.--Malaysia’s forced return of asylum-seekers to Myanmar has meant that hundreds of Myanmar nationals have been “sent back against their will” to the troubled country in the last two months, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) Malaysia expresses concerns over a parliamentary reply on the 7th of October 2022 by then (and now caretaker) Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions) Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad to shut down the local UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office, in line with the government’s intention to take over the management of refugees in Malaysia.

NEW YORK, U.S.--More than 140 people have been killed in horrific intercommunal violence in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, briefing journalists in Geneva, that some victims had been beheaded.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--February 2022, and the post-pandemic impacts were continuing to be felt across the board. In a brightly painted children’s library above a row of shops on Chow Kit Road, a group of community engagement workers briefly exchanged stories about their current challenges and how Covid had increased the vulnerability of the people they support.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The detention centre breakout that occurred in the Sungai Bakap Immigration Depot is a larger issue of Malaysia’s major policy failure in its treatment of refugees in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - A Malaysian court has allowed a temporary stay of deportation of 1,200 Myanmar nationals scheduled to be sent back to their strife-torn homeland on Tuesday, after rights groups petitioned to say deportation could endanger their lives.