Malaysia: Wood Products Tainted by Abuse, Deforestation

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Matek Geram, a geospatial expert for the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) which supports Indigenous communities to map their ancestral territories and defend their land claims, walks through the rainforest in central Sarawak, Malaysia, September 8, 2024. © 2024 Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch Malaysia’s Sarawak state has failed to protect an Indigenous community from a company that logged without the community’s consent and seeks to remove them from their land.The company’s conduct does not meet local laws and policies. Rather than holding the…

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