The commission, in a press conference yesterday, 22 October, said that it will look into a report by the Nepal Embassy about the increase in the number of death involving their citizens here.
Malay Mail reported a SUHAKAM commissioner Jerald Joseph saying that they received information from the Nepal embassy about the high number of Nepali migrants who died from January 2018 to July 2021.
Some of the causes of death were workplace accidents, pneumonia, and COVID-19.
"The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) must conduct detailed investigations on the main causes of accidents at work involving Nepali citizens, besides taking stern action against employers who are found to be abandoning safety issues at work," Free Malaysia Today quoted Jerald as saying.
"We want to know the reason why the deaths happened and what is responsible."
There are some 300,000 Nepali workers in Malaysia. Many of them come here to work as security guards as the Ministry of Home Affairs only allows Nepali nationals to work in that sector.