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Malaysia

Tenaganita (Women's Force)

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Tenaganita is non-profit organization, born out of the struggles of women workers in the plantations and in the industrial sector especially women in free trade zones. Today it has become bigger and stronger working with the most marginalized sectors like women workers, single mothers, trafficked women, domestic workers, sex workers, migrant workers and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Mission:
To promote and protect the rights of women workers and migrant workers in a globalized world.
To create an enabling environment and empower and workers to achieve their full potential in society.
To facilitate an environment for migrant workers and women workers in order to reduce HIV/AIDS vulnerability.

Programs:
Anti-Trafficking in Persons Program
Migrant Rights Protection Program
Health & HIV/AIDS Program

Tenaganita Centre:

Migrant Workers Clinic - Provides FREE legal advice, representation and assistance to deserving migrant workers who came to Malaysia legally.

Publications:

"New Law Targets Traffickers, Not Victims", April 2007, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Bill 2007

Related pages on this site

• Successful Case of Assisting Women and Girl Victims of Trafficking
• Malaysia's Human Rights Commission Seeks Women Trafficking Crackdown
• Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) Recommends that Review of Laws on Human Trafficking Needed
• Thai Trafficked Girls and Women Saved in Malaysia1
• Malaysia: Tenaganita launches Domestic Worker Action Line
• Few Reports of Increased Human Trafficking in Tsunami-hit Nations
• Ambassador John Miller Makes Recommendations to Protect Child Tsunami Victims
• ASEAN Signs Declaration Against Trafficking in Persons Particularly Women and Children
• Malaysia Promises to Act Against Human Trafficking
• CWCC Report on Trafficking of Cambodian Women and Children to Malaysia
• UNESCO Radio Soap Operas in Minority Languages Ready for Distribution
• Managing Migration in Southeast Asia
• IOM Helping to Repatriate Woman Trafficking Victims from Malaysia
• Malaysian Women Rescued from London Sex Ring.
• Pact Would Protect Indonesian Maids in Malaysia
• Malaysia Top Destination for Indonesian Victims
• Hundreds of Women from Malaysia were Lured to UK; Traffickers Sentenced
• Malaysia Top Destination for Indonesian Victims
• US State Department Releases 2006 Human Rights Report
• EU and ASEAN Join Hands to Fight Trafficking
• Malaysia Not Doing Enough to Combat Human Trafficking
• Malaysian Government Presents First Bill Against Human Trafficking
• Malaysia Reconceptualizes its Assumptions about Human Trafficking
• ASEAN Declaration Urges Better Migrant Worker Rights
• Police Break Women Trafficking Ring in Vietnam
• Dateline NBC in USA Spotlights the Sex Trade in the US and Southeast Asia
• MTV Networks in Asia & Pacific and MTV Europe Foundation Launch Youth-Focused Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign
• Filipino 'Sex Slaves' Rescued in Malaysia

Related external links

• Tenanagita
• ASEAN