Please see our separate Publications page where you can download reports.

 

Placing refugees at the centre of research and documentation is fundamental to the work of the Penang Refugee Network.

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Through our community networks, the experience, ideas, hopes and aspirations of women, men and youth from the refugee community are discussed and documented. As appropriate, they are then presented to decision-makers, the wider Malaysian public, service providers and wider national and regional circles.

 

This is of course based on the principle that it is ridiculous to exclude refugee voices from any advocacy relating to the situation faced by refugees. Yet this is what many in the NGO world, world of academia and UN world do.

 

So we have continually worked to open up spaces where refugees can advocate for themselves; our work also translates directly into advocacy for promoting refugee rights, safety and well-being as well as for developing relevant community-based interventions.

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Over several years, we have worked with Malaysian enforcement agencies, facilitating the hearing of the experiences of refugee women, youth and men in Penang. This has extended to working with members of key United Nation and other fact-finding missions, some related to Myanmar and the region, and which have included the International Peoples Tribunal, university and research institutions, and media. 

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Our own documentation has covered topics such as child marriage, GBV, Education, Human Trafficking, child protection generally, advocacy for a comprehensive Malaysian labour migration policy, and parenting attitudes.​

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