XinHuaNet, China, 17 January 2019 - Construction workers receive physical check at a construction site in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 17, 2019. Volunteers from a community in Hefei provided physical checks and gifts for migrant workers who will return to their hometowns to celebrate the Spring Festival with their families. The Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, falls on Feb. 5 this year.
Eleven, Myanmar, 16 January 2019 - More than 230,000 Myanmar migrant workers went abroad last year, seeing a greater increase when compared with the number of domestic jobs, according to the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population.
NPR, Japan, 15 January 2019 - The wind howls and snow drifts around a house in Koriyama, in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture. The town is inland from Fukushima's coastal areas that were devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant meltdown.
The Nation, Thailand, 15 January 2019 - Fruit shop owners Maruay Srijakkra, 37, and Meena Thepcharoen, 44, were arrested on Monday afternoon, after the Cambodian Embassy’s labour advisers led Thai police and related officials to the Aiyara Market in Tambon Khlong Neung, Khlong Luang district.
Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh, 13 January 2019 - Bangladesh, like many other developing countries, is dependent on the remittance inflow from our expatriate workers. This helps us not only to meet our balance of trade deficit but also to add to our foreign exchange reserve. In addition, it enables us to find employment abroad for our growing population, and assist in socio-economic development in the rural regions in our country.
The Conversation, Japan, 12 January 2019 - Japan brought in a controversial new labour policy at the end of 2018 which will open up blue-collar jobs to workers from countries such as Nepal, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. The amendment to Japan’s notoriously restrictive immigration laws is expected to bring in an estimated 345,000 foreign workers within the next five years. It comes in response to the ageing workforce of Japan, where 28% of the population are over 65 and birth rates are falling.
OpenGov, South Korea, 11 January 2019 - Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) students won the first place award in the recently concluded 2018 UNESCO-UNITWIN ICT & Leadership Advanced Workshop and International Competition. It was held in South Korea last 10 to 15 December 2018.
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Ying Yang
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Feb 12, 2019 08:52 PM
Author: Ligia Kiss, Cathy Zimmerman
Publishing Date:
2019
Category: Research
Global estimates suggest that about 25 million people are subjected to “modern slavery” in the form of forced labor or human trafficking [1]. These men, women, and children are often migrant workers who are exploited in diverse sectors, such as agriculture, mining, fishing, factory work, domestic work, and forced sex work [1,2]. Although the eradication of modern slavery is among the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals [3], development of effective responses for trafficking prevention and assistance for victims remains elusive in this nascent field of health research. We believe that intensified efforts against trafficking require a greater understanding of modifiable factors and the causal pathways that lead to trafficking in different contexts and for individual populations.
Business World, Global, 4 January 2019 - Migrant workers who have moved to the developed world for jobs will send almost half-a-trillion euro home to low- and middle-income nations this year, according to the World Bank.
Coin Gape, Global, 4 January 2019 - Migration from one country to another to seek out a better, more dignified life for oneself, or one’s family is one of the most prevalent human pursuits of our time. The world is experiencing a dramatic increase in legal overseas migration for work, and there are currently 250 million migrant workers coming from developing countries to work in developed ones. Annual cross-border remittances have risen to more than US$600 billion.
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