VOA News, Thailand, 17 June 2020 - Migrant workers stuck in Thailand since the COVID - 19 lockdown began in March are facing unclear immigration status and mounting bills even as the government provides some aid for unemployed laborers in the country.
The Star, Nepal, 18 June 2020 - Nepal's top court has ordered the government to pay for thousands of stranded migrant workers who have lost their jobs due to the new coronavirus pandemic to return home.
Asia Media Centre, Singapore, 14 June 2020 - Large industrial estates in the corners of Singapore have housed armies of unskilled labourers for decades, powering the growth of Singapore’s rapid ascent into one of Asia’s four tigers. While thankfully deaths have been incredibly low, the outbreak in this separate community of Singapore has opened a debate about the city-state’s reliance on migrant labour.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 13 June 2020 - The Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme) has launched an initiative to rally the business community to make a contribution to the migrant worker community in Singapore.
Channel News Asia, Thailand, 13 June 2020 - Despite the efforts of the government, exploitation in Thai fisheries still occurs owing to lax inspections, the withholding of wages and evasive reflagging of vessels, the programme Undercover Asia finds out.
UN News, Global, 13 June 2020 - The scale of the problem is huge, with roughly 220 countries imposing over 60,000 travel and mobility restrictions. For many migrant workers, the consequences have been disastrous, as unemployment rises sharply in sectors that traditionally rely on their labour, such as tourism and construction.
Triple Pundit, Global, 11 June 2020 - Every year, an estimated 164 million people cross national borders for work. The money they send home feeds, houses and clothes their families, who they don't see for months or even years at a time. As strangers in strange lands, their lives are often difficult — and they're only growing harder in light of the new coronavirus. With businesses shuttered and the global economy at a standstill, countless migrant workers find themselves in limbo.
Aljazeera, Nepal, 10 June 2020 - Dev Bishwo Karma waited for hours by the side of a remote mountain road in the northwestern Nepali district of Karnali in late May, hoping to somehow find a way home.
The Guardian, Middle East, 9 June 2020 - During 14 years in Lebanon, Jevie Olido’s four children have grown up without her, her marriage has failed and her parents have grown old. Now, the income that kept her far from her home in the Philippines has also gone, rubbed out by the coronavirus crisis and an economic implosion that has forced thousands of desperate domestic workers like her to look for ways to leave.
Aljazeera, India, 9 June 2020 - India's Supreme Court has ordered states to identify stranded migrant workers and transport them back to their hometowns within 15 days as the humanitarian crisis surrounding their movement has continued over weeks of the coronavirus lockdown.
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