Reproductive Health of Factory Women Migrant Workers

Professor Lilian Miles was part of the team (Stumbitz, Miles, Lewis, Freeman & Lyon) which led the research and developed an Impact Case Study submitted by Middlesex University (Extending Maternity Protection and Reproductive Rights at Work in the Global South) to REF2021. 

At Westminster University, she was extending this work by researching how the reproductive health of factory women migrant workers and Rohingyan women refugees in Malaysia can be addressed. I work with a wide range of academics, health care providers, NGOs, factories, women migrant workers and Rohingyan refugee women in supporting this aspect of health. 

In 2019 she co-authored a Strategy Paper (SDG#5 Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Violence Against Women Migrant Workers Services (VAW) in Malaysia) for UNWOMEN, Bangkok which was disseminated to the Malaysian government to inform the drafting of its 12th national development plan.

Image of education class for factory women migrant workers in Malaysia to increase awareness of sexual and reproductive health (research funded by the United Nations Gender Theme Group 2017) (April 2017 to April 2018).

 

Image of health clinics for factory women migrant workers in Malaysia to increase awareness of sexual and reproductive health (research funded by the British Council Newton Fund Impact Scheme 2020).