The US Embassy in Malaysia tweeted on March 27 that “The world is depending on Malaysia” in the fight against COVID-19 . The embassy wrote how 65% of medical gloves used by “the great American heroes” and their counterparts worldwide were made in Malaysia. The same week, the EU’s ambassador to Malaysia urged Malaysian glove manufacturers to “get creative” to ensure 24/7 production to meet the EU’s urgent demand for gloves. Meanwhile, the British health service, the NHS, spent 75 million pounds (€88 million, $95 million) on rubber gloves in 2018, most of them sourced from Malaysia, and in March the UK government bought 88.5 million gloves from Supermax, the European arm of a Malaysian firm. At the time of the tweet, the US government had just lifted sanctions imposed six months before on Malaysian glove manufacturers suspected of forced labor. Two Malaysian glove manufacturers, WRP and Top Glove, had been accused of mistreating migrant workers, subjecting them to forced labor, forced overtime, debt bondage , withholding wages and passport confiscation. Top Glove, which makes one in five gloves globally and can produce 200 million natural and synthetic rubber gloves a day, denied the allegations and went back into full production…. Read full this story
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