Bangkok Post - June 13, 2011. Labour activists are to petition the International Labour Organisation today over Thailand's alleged continuing failure to protect the rights of Burmese migrant workers.
ILO - May 16, 2011. According to the 2011 ILO Global Report on Discrimination, migrant workers encounter discrimination on a daily basis. While many of them are already at risk of all kinds of abuse, they also became the first victims of the financial and economic crisis, the report says. ILO Online reports from the Russian Federation which has been the biggest receiving, sending and transit country for migrant workers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the early 1990s.
Russia beyond the headlines - June 7, 2011. From the streets and markets to the steel high rise, Central Asians help keep Russia’s urban centers whirring and the demographics from further decline. But new immigrants also face hostility and xenophobia.
VietNamNews - June 3, 2011. A database on Vietnamese migrants will serve as a foundation to the Government in building a sustainable policy for migration management, according to a representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consular Department in Ha Noi yesterday. Head of the department, Duong Chi Dung, said that the database, the first in Asia, revealed Government efforts in promoting safe and legal overseas migration whilst fighting illegal migration activities.
Asia Sentinel - June 3, 2011. Economic increase starts to attract workers from across the world. China, with 33 million of its ethnic brethren living outside its borders, is starting to turn around and draw migrants as its surging economy attracts people from overseas, according to a new report by The Migration Source, a Washington, DC-based NGO
The Financial Express - June 3, 2011. Manpower export figure in the month of May shows substantial improvement in workers' migration from Bangladesh. The post-recession impact on the job market now seems to be over, according to the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET). Data showed 47,825 Bangladeshis found jobs abroad in May, up from 33,239 in the same period last year, with the UAE employing the bulk of the workers.
The Jakarta Post - June 1, 2011. A revised agreement between Malaysia and Indonesia provides some benefits for migrant domestic workers but fails to provide some needed safeguards linked to low wages and high recruitment fees, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday (Wednesday, Jakarta time).
Philippine Daily Inquirer - June 1, 2011. Over 100,000 Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong are set to get HK$160 (about P887) more in pay after the Chinese territory’s Cabinet approved on Wednesday an increase in their minimum allowable wage (MAW).
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Malaysiakini.com - May 27, 2011. Statement of civil society organisations in Asean to the Asean Senior Labour Officials Meeting and Labour Ministers Meeting in Penang June 23-26 2011.
The Economist - May 27, 2011. Few things will affect our future more than migration. A new book provides one of the best analyses of its costs and benefits
ILO - May 25, 2011. A package of measures aimed at improving recruitment practices and the protection of migrant workers’ rights has been launched by the Ministry of Labour’s Department of Employment (DOE) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). On 25 May 2011, Ms Sutassanee Suebwongpat, Director General of the Department of Employment and Mr Jiyuan Wang, Director of the ILO Country Office for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao PDR will sign a Letter of Understanding to promote cooperation between the two parties from 2011 to 2012.
GMA News - May 24, 2011. "Despite its ballooning inflation rate, the Philippines posted the second highest growth of remittances among developing countries for 2010, the World Bank said in a report released to the Philippine media Tuesday."
Korea.net - May 6, 2011. The Employment Permit System (EPS) run by the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea (HRD Korea) will win the United Nations Public Service Award (UNPSA), the most prestigious international award in public service.
Statement issued by representatives of 37 organisations meeting in Singapore calls for regional support for a Domestic Workers' Convention when it comes to a decision at the International Labour Conference in June
