Muda executive committee member Nurainie Haziqah Shafii has called on the government to recognise the status of refugees and to accord them their human rights in Malaysia.

Without doing so, she said, refugees are deemed undocumented migrants under the Immigration Act, and risk deportation to the countries from which they fled.

"From a legal perspective, Malaysia never ratified and is not a party to the 1950 Refugees Convention or...