PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has been upgraded to Tier 2 in the US state department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, a step higher than last year.

PETALING JAYA: Activists fear Malaysia is at risk of being downgraded to Tier 3 in the upcoming Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report in view of criticisms by UN experts and major international agencies, alongside concerns of recruitment quota fraud.

Kota Kinabalu: Police said they have rescued four Filipinas believed to be human trafficking victims in Labuan and Penampang and arrested two women suspects in a major anti-trafficking operation codenamed "Pintas".

ALOR SETAR: A 53-year-old United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholder is suspected to be the mastermind behind the supply of illegal foreign workers to areas in the north of the peninsula.

PETALING JAYA: The Kuala Lumpur sessions court has sentenced a former college administrative assistant to five years in prison and a RM90,000 fine on two charges of trafficking a 13-month-old baby and forging its birth documents in 2020.

GEORGE TOWN: The Ministry of Human Resources (MOHR) is conducting further investigations into the case of 171 Bangladeshi migrant workers who failed to find employment in the country in a recent incident in Bayu Damai, Teluk Ramunia, Johor.

PETALING JAYA: The 171 Bangladeshis duped into coming to Malaysia for non-existent jobs cannot be detained or charged for offences as they are victims of trafficking, says human rights group Lawyers for Liberty (LFL).

The police have rescued a 22-year-old Malaysian woman from being trafficked to a neighbouring country, after she was kept in captivity at a house in Taman Sanctuary, Machang Bubok, here.