BBC Dhaka - October 31, 2011. "The Bangladeshi government is looking to simplify the process for citizens who want to work overseas."
Voice of America - October 24, 2011. "Indonesia is among the largest suppliers of domestic helpers to Malaysia and Singapore, given the higher wages and demand for foreign labor for the two neighbors.
However, it is cracking down on sending Indonesian citizens to work as domestic workers overseas because of an increasing number of reports of maid abuses."
The Daily Star - October 23, 2011. "Analysts yesterday expressed concern over high costs of migration and suggested collective negotiation by South Asian countries with the receiving countries to reduce the costs."
PanArmenianNetwork - October 17, 2011. "One third of Russian citizens have negative perceptions of migrants from abroad and regions of Russia.
According to The Moscow News, the data was collected by Moscow City Government as result of a secret survey. Other data from the survey are not made public."
Channel News Asia - October 17, 2011. "Cambodia has imposed a temporary ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia following numerous complaints of abuse, the government said on Monday, in a move hailed by rights groups."
Bangkok Post - October 15, 2011. "Hundreds of migrant workers in several flood-affected provinces are waiting for assistance.
About 200 legal and illegal migrants, mostly from Cambodia and Laos, have taken refuge at Thammasat University's Rangsit campus."
UN - October 13, 2011. This is a news item from the UN News Centre. "The President of the General Assembly today urged the world to dispel entrenched myths about immigration and focus on migrants’ contributions to economic development in countries of origin, transit and destination."
The Armidale Express - October 12, 2011. "Researchers and human rights advocates meeting at the University of New England pledged their support for replacing mandatory detention with the processing of asylum seekers within the Australian community.
Their resolution to this effect was an outcome of the international conference ‘Regional Responses to Labour Trafficking and Refugee Movements in Asia-Pacific’ held at UNE."
The New York Times - October 8, 2011. "When governments from around the globe passed a treaty in June to protect domestic workers, labor experts called it a surprising breakthrough for millions of exploited women. "
ABC - October 10, 2011. This is an opinion piece from ABC "As Australians, we value our way of life and take pride in our nation and its people. But what do we think about people not born here?"
The Gulf Today - October 10, 2011. "The Public Prosecution of Dubai, on Sunday, charged 4 Asians, 3 men and their woman accomplice, before a bench of the Criminal Court, for trafficking a housemaid, also an Asian. The prosecution stated that the three men had raped the victim after she refused to work as a prostitute."
The Morung Express - October 8, 2011. "Nearly 30 million people in the Asia Pacific region were displaced by environmental disasters in 2010. Given the inevitability of increased migration caused by climate change, humanitarian assistance and legal protection are not sufficient responses. This ADB Briefing Paper suggests it is a good idea to strengthen the resilience of communities to make migration an informed choice, rather than an act of desperation."
The Daily Star - October4, 2011. With various irregularities imposing a huge cost burden on Bangladeshi migrant workers abroad, Bangladesh and other countries are trying to formulate ways and means of ensuring that migration costs should not be more than a migrant worker's basic salary of two months.
"We have the means to identify the various forms of irregular practices that strip away at the gains of migration," said Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday while inaugurating a two-day international meeting on labour migration in the capital.
The Economic Times - September 30, 2011. In a major initiative to support overseas Indian workers, Government will soon launch a scheme to provide them resettlement expenses, insurance cover and pension benefits on their return to the country.
The Jakarta Post - September 29,2011. "Legislators are obligated to look for ways to protect and improve the rights of migrant workers both in their countries of origin and in the countries where they work, House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie said on Wednesday.
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) conference on principles of friendship and cooperation in Asia and the ad hoc committee meeting on protection of the rights of migrant workers in Asia held in Surakarta, Central Java."
