Bangkok Post, Thailand, 24 May 2021 - A series of coronavirus clusters among construction workers in Bangkok, including the first local cases of the variant first identified in India, has put a fresh spotlight on migrant labour rights as the country grapples with the deadliest outbreak so far.
The Star, Singapore, 28 April 2020 - Virus flareups among migrant workers are fueling a second wave of infections in South-East Asia, forcing governments to shift direction to contain resurgent outbreaks, and serving as a warning to other countries looking to ease restrictions as cases ease.
Adelaide now - May 1, 2012. "SA has lifted its April cap on accepting employer-sponsored visa applications.
The cap had been announced in the lead-up to new federal changes coming into effect during July.
Employers and the migration institute have welcomed the move, saying an initial decision to cap applications from April 16 had thrown recruitment plans for overseas workers into disarray.
Migration Institute of Australia state president Mark Glazbrook, who recently raised concerns about the early cap, said it had given employers no time to prepare for changes to the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme."
Saudi Gazette - 13 April 2015 - The Ministry of Labor will start issuing visas for Bangladeshi domestic workers from Monday, April 20 (Rajab 1), according to ministry sources.
08 January 2013 - Green Prophet. Five decades after the development of the kefala (sponsorship) system, Lebanon’s two-hundred thousand migrant domestic workers continue to be denied central human rights like the right to self-realization which is interlinked with the right to freedom of movement, just conditions of work and the right to legal recognition.
The Phnom Penh Post, Vietnam, 19 October 2021 - Dang Trong Ha, 27 years old, from the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An, moved to southern Dong Nai province in April with the hope of finding a well-paid job.
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Oct 06, 2011 05:43 AM
Author: Kathleen Newland Institutional Auth, Migration Policy Institute, USAID
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Research
MPI - 2010. "This report, undertaken by the Migration Policy Institute through a USAID grant, discusses how today’s diaspora organizations, communities and individuals increasingly are seeking to influence government, media, private sectors and other prominent groups in their countries of origin and of settlement. This report provides an overview of diaspora advocacy by looking at five issues: who participates in diaspora advocacy, who or what are the “targets” in these efforts, what means are used to advance these causes, what are the issues on which they focus and the effectiveness of the efforts. "
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Jul 21, 2011 12:56 PM
Author: Philippe Fargues
Publishing Date:
2011
Category: Research
"On December 17, 2010, a 26-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in a small town in central Tunisia, unwittingly triggering a revolution that would ultimately overthrow a 24-year-long dictatorship in that country. Within a few weeks of this incident, revolts flared up across the Arab world, gripping countries from the Gulf to the Atlantic." This is how an article in the Social Europe Journal starts, it is written by Philippe Fargues European University Institute in May 2011.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:50 AM
Author: ILO MIGRANT (Geneva)
Publishing Date:
2014
Category: Information Material
During the 2014 International Labour Conference (ILC), the Labour Migration Branch of the ILO (MIGRANT) interviewed 17 ILC tripartite delegates for the new “Voices of Labour Migration” interview series. This initiative gives ILO constituents an opportunity to voice their views on fair migration and to share ideas on how their respective organizations, the ILO and the international community can advance the objectives of the ILO’s new Fair Migration Agenda. The complete set of interviews will be launched on the Labour Migration portal page soon.
Ministers of Labour, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (SRHRM), François Crépeau, the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Sharan Burrow, and the Secretary-General of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), Brent Wilton, were among those sharing their views, alongside other tripartite constituents, civil society representatives and academics.
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Oct 23, 2018 09:28 AM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2016
Category: Research
This research assesses the main challenges and opportunities of implementing the IOM assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) projects in Morocco using the community-based approach.
The first part of the study analyses the different types of AVRR projects that have been implemented during the last 30 years and identifies the main needs and challenges of the present approach.
The main focus of this research is on how the community-based approach could provide solutions to some of the challenges of the AVRR programmes. A comparative analysis of community-based reintegration projects already implemented allows to identify different types of approach and to elaborate recommendations on how to apply them to AVRR.
The report finally proposes an evaluation of the possibility of implementing community-based AVRR initiatives in the main countries of origin of the beneficiaries of the AVRR programme from Morocco.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 13 July 2021 - Efforts to support migrant workers here have not abated, even after the Covid-19 outbreak in worker dormitories has been quelled.
The Straits Times, Singapore, 9 August 2021 - Migrant workers housed in over 30 dormitories in Singapore received 10,000 red apples on Monday (Aug 9) to mark National Day and remind them of the importance of having a balanced diet.
The Irrawaddy, Thailand, 5 August 2020 - For almost three weeks, Ma Yamin has been volunteering to help her fellow migrant workers in Thailand fill in the required forms to register for early voting in Myanmar’s 2020 general election. At her home in Bang Bon district of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, she welcomed them, took their details, filled in the forms correctly, and copied their passport to attach to the application. The Myanmar migrants would usually arrive at her house from early evening to around 10 p.m., after finishing their overtime shifts.
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.
Myanmar Times, 13 March 2017 - Myanmar and Thailand signed a bilateral MOU to govern the labour migration between the two, especially from Myanmar to Thailand. The MOU provides a framework to facilitate regular labour migration by focusing more on admission procedures, prevention of irregular migration and employment, and repatriation of migrant workers, among others. Issues of labour market demands and social protection and rights at work of migrant workers are not comprehensively covered.
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