The Home Ministry has announced that all refugees and asylum seekers who have been issued cards by the UN High Commission for Refugees must now register with the Government’s own database Tracking Refugees Information System (TRIS). This comes amid a proposal by the National Security Council to shut down the UNHCR office in Malaysia. What impact will this have on the refugee community here? Melisa Idris speaks to Adrian Pereira, Executive Director at North South Initiative, a migrant and refugee rights NGO.