The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour and the ILO TRIANGLE project are organizing a workshop to strengthen the role of trade unions in the protection of migrant workers. The workshop on 1-2 November 2011, aims to raise awareness among trade union officials at different levels about migration trends, labour migrants’ vulnerabilities, the existing law and policies relating to contract-based Vietnamese overseas workers. The workshop will result in a draft VGCL Policy and Action Plan on the Protection of Migrant Workers.
Today, Singapore, 27 February 2022 - When he was scrolling on Facebook last week, Mr Hasan Samim, 31, came across a post uploaded by a junior colleague about feeling desolated in Singapore after being stuck here for three years.
2 July 2013 - Times of India. Australia on Monday implemented a new stringent visa regime for hiring of foreign workers besides increasing the visa fees.
Tempo.co, Indonesia, 31 July 2022 - Strict monitoring in the placement of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia is a must to ensure adherence to bilateral memorandums of understanding signed earlier this year, a Presidential Staff Office (KSP RI) official said.
18 April 2013 - Manila Bulletin. The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) allayed fears of possible mass displacement of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Singapore after the island-state recently implemented stricter measures in hiring foreign nationals. Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz in a statement on Wednesday said the recent amendment in Singapore’s Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (EFMA) will not ban foreigners from entering its labor market.
Monitor, Taiwan, 6 October 2022 - The state of civic space in Taiwan is rated as ‘open’ by the CIVICUS Monitor and fundamental freedoms are widely respected and protected by the authorities.
29 April 2013 - About two million Nepalis work in the Gulf region and nearly three per cent seek help every year. Migrant rights activists have sought a strong mechanism to rescue stranded migrant workers in destination countries or countries of origin.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 8 January 2021 - The easing of Covid-19 circuit breaker measures has come as a big relief to the migrant workers in Singapore.
Xinhuanet, China, 19 May 2019 - Pupils have lunch at Dingfan Primary School in Gaocun Township of Wanrong County, north China's Shanxi Province, May 16, 2019. Most of the 110 pupils at Dingfan Primary School are left-behind children, whose parents have become migrant workers in towns or cities. Some of the students came from registered poor families in Dingfan and nearby villages. In September of 2015, school master Zhao Yingjie applied to add the school onto the list of Free Lunch for Children (FLC), the public initiative to offer free meals to students in remote, poverty-stricken areas. From then on students in Dingfan began to enjoy their nutritious lunch at school. In order to guarantee the quality of the lunch and the transparency of the fund spending, teachers in the school take photos of the lunch dishes every day and load them onto the microblog account of the school for the public supervision.
3 September 2013 - Yahoo News. Researchers from the International Labor Organization and the Asian Research Center on Migration at Chulalongkorn University questioned nearly 600 workers in four provinces along Thailand's coasts for a study, released Monday, on the state of the country's fishing industry. They found conditions on trawlers so bad that Thais, who have better opportunities elsewhere, are rarely found working on one.
4 September 2013 - Bangkok Post. A study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found that, contrary to common perception, forced labour does not account for the majority of fishery workers in Thailand. The study - the ILO's first on the matter - found 83% of respondents worked in the industry willingly.
Dawn - 30 November 2015 - Ineffective complaint mechanisms coupled with missing coordination among grievance registration and redressing systems, and lack of awareness about their availability have been identified as major hurdles in access to justice for the migrant workers in a study.
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Jun 20, 2011 09:53 AM
Author: Khalid Koser Geneva Center for Security Policy
Publishing Date:
2009
Category: Research
ILO - 2009. International Migration Papers No. 95.
The Nation - 28 September 2012. On Wednesday, the HSRI, Mahidol University's Institute for Population and Social Research, Silpakorn University's anthropology department and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (Path) presented their research results on the estimated migrant population and their assessment of migrant mother and child care in Bangkok.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 23 April 2019 - Even though the Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) has received only a handful of complaints on food quality from migrant workers in our 10 years of operation, it is still unacceptable that such incidents occur (End shabby treatment of migrant workers, by Mr Teo Sin Ee, April 18).
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