A/HRC/44/40/Add.1 91. Indigenous peoples have the highest overall poverty rates in Malaysia and are in desperate need of better protection of their customary land rights and more effective access to quality health care and education. Implementation of a comprehensive new set of policies is needed. 92. Migrant workers, especially but not only those who are undocumented face serious violations of their labour and other rights. There is a need for a comprehensive new approach that acknowledges the real extent of foreign labour dependence, regulates working conditions more effectively, ensures real minimum wages and treats workers and their dependents humanely. 93. Existing refugee policies are punitive rather than humane and economically counterproductive. Refugees and asylum seekers should be permitted to work, their children should be admitted to public schools and they should be eligible for public health care. 94. The extent of statelessness and its devastating consequences for those affected, as well as for the Malaysian economy, should be acknowledged. The Government should produce definitive estimates of statelessness, identify the drivers of statelessness and pursue a far more concerted approach to facilitate, rather than deter, access for people eligible for Malaysian citizenship. 95. The Government should undertake a comprehensive study of the number and situation of persons with disabilities in Malaysia. Existing official statistics radically understate the population and existing policies are commensurately inadequate. 96. The Government must ensure that the climate crisis and its impact on poverty, inequality and human rights is urgently prioritized in its policymaking, including in the areas of social protection, poverty alleviation and fiscal planning. 19