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Aug 11, 2020 10:49 AM
Author: Clean Clothes Campaign
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
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Sep 18, 2020 02:36 PM
Author: ILO
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2020
Category: Policy
Country brief prepared by the ILO’s Regional Office for Thailand on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers, and country's responses.
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Aug 11, 2020 09:41 AM
Author: Institute for Human Rights and Business
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
As part of our continuing focus on the links between COVID-19 and the business and human rights agenda, IHRB is exploring the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers across Asia and the roles and responsibilities of businesses in addressing these challenges. Most of the 35million+ migrant workers estimated to live and work in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are from Africa or South and Southeast Asia. Across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states, an estimated 10 million migrant workers live and work in major destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. During the pandemic, countries in the GCC and Singapore were ranked in the top ten for infection rates per million, and almost all cases were from migrant workers living in dormitories.
This five part series begins with an overview of the range of challenges facing migrant workers throughout South East Asia as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent pieces in the series will cover accommodation conditions, discrimination issues, recruitment fees and wage theft, as well as impacts to migrant workers’ remittances back home.
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Aug 10, 2020 02:30 PM
Author: ASIA REGIONAL INTEGRATION CENTER
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Project and Programme
The COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic recession put job security and well-being of over 91 million international migrants from Asia and the Pacific at risk. Official data show international remittances to developing Asian economies have plummeted in recent months. A substantial number of households in developing Asia—who depends on international remittances— could fall into poverty; particularly in the Pacific and Central/West Asia economies where dependency rates on remittance inflows are high. This webinar will examine the impact of pandemic on labor mobility, including a forecast of the COVID-19 impact on remittance inflows for this year. It will also explore policy options to safeguard migrants and the remittance recipient households.
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Aug 10, 2020 02:33 PM
Author: Kikkawa Takenaka Aiko, Villafuerte James, Gaspar Raymond, Narayanan Badri
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
This brief assesses the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on migrant workers, how reduced remittances will affect households and economies in Asia and the Pacific, and what policy makers can do to soften the blow.
Job losses stemming from COVID-19 are hurting households around the world, but for Asia and the Pacific’s 91 million migrant workers—a third of the global migrant workforce—the impacts will be particularly severe. In this brief, ADB economists estimate that the region faces remittance losses ranging from $31.4 billion to $54.3 billion. To reduce the economic and social impacts, policy responses are proposed in areas such as social protection, immigration, labor, and health.
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Aug 10, 2020 10:07 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis. The threat remains the virus: Not people; not migrants, stranded, or displaced persons. The pandemic is borderless; people are affected regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or status.
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Aug 10, 2020 09:34 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
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WHAT IS A CORONAVIRUS?
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which may cause illness in animals or humans. In humans, several coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.
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Aug 10, 2020 07:48 PM
Author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
This guidance note highlights the emerging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women migrant workers, focusing on the key challenges and risks they face. It makes recommendations in the context of the economic and social response and recovery packages that governments are putting forward, supported by examples of existing good practices from around the world.
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Aug 10, 2020 10:04 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
The content presented on this portal is for informative purposes only. All information is being constantly validated including geo-location and attributes. As the situation is changing rapidly, we aren’t able to ensure up to date accuracy of some of the information, while it is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of uploading. The scale of the data operation also doesn’t enable us yet to ensure that there aren’t some errors. The timeliness of these updates depends on the timeframe within which the information becomes available and is processed by IOM.
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Aug 10, 2020 08:02 PM
Author: Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: CoP Product
Migrant workers to Gulf countries - most from Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Kenya – live in tightly packed, often unsanitary, labour camps – conditions perfect for the spread of COVID-19. An outbreak among construction workers in a labour camp in Qatar prompted a swift lockdown of thousands of workers, including workers on infrastructure projects linked to the 2022 World Cup. This lockdown has led to claims the labour camps have become a “virtual prison” and raised concerns for worker welfare, including that workers do not have access to necessary sanitation, are not being given clear information regarding the outbreak, and are being laid off without wages or a promise of re-hiring.
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Aug 10, 2020 08:45 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
COVID-19 has impacted the world on an unprecedented scale: it has caused a global economic slowdown, resulted in international travel bans and restrictions, and transformed the ways people socialize, work and maintain their health and well-being. As governments try to manage its spread and effect on economies, it is imperative that migrants -
regardless of their migratory status - are included in these efforts and recognized as a contributory stakeholder to
national strategies addressing the pandemic and future crises.
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Aug 10, 2020 02:56 PM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Project and Programme
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Aug 10, 2020 02:52 PM
Author: Park Cyn-Young, Inocencio Ancilla Marie
Publishing Date:
2020
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This brief assesses how COVID-19 will affect jobs in Asia and the Pacific and proposes policy actions to manage the impacts.
COVID-19 is driving economies into recession, putting many jobs at risk. Up to 242 million full-time jobs could be lost globally, with 70% of these in Asia and the Pacific. Informal employees in vulnerable sectors will be hard hit and many middle-skilled workers face being displaced into lower paying work. The pandemic will also spur a digital transformation of work and the workplace.
The brief discusses these issues and suggests policy responses for the region’s developing economies. These include more social protection for the unemployed and vulnerable and investing in digital readiness and skills for the digital economy.
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Aug 10, 2020 09:48 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
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Aug 10, 2020 09:45 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
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2020
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