Phuket Gazette - 27 January 2015 - Thailand’s criminal-justice response to human trafficking received a boost from the Australian government yesterday, as an arrangement to commence the Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking In Persons (AAPTIP) in Thailand was signed at a ceremony in Bangkok.
The Jakarta Post - 27 January 2015 - Nearly 20 years ago, Anis Hidayah began her journey as a human rights activist, fighting for Indonesian migrant workers, who are often neglected or ignored by the community and the government.
Dawn - 27 January 2015 - IN the morning hours when you leave for office you find women, young and middle-aged, sitting in groups at the edges of the streets of several localities in Karachi — North Nazimabad, Gulshan, Garden, PECHS, Clifton — some chatting, a few ruminating, a couple doing needlework.
Open Democracy - 26 January 2015 - Wildly different numbers circulate about the number of trafficking victims and modern-day slaves. Victims are hard to count because they are hidden and definitions are ambiguous, yet efforts to quantify them shape what we know and do about trafficking.
PETALING JAYA. ASEAN’s largest civil society forum released a collective statement today. The statement highlights “regional priorities and overarching cross-cutting concerns” issues, and also provides recommendations to address them.
The Star - 23 January 2015 - NON-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on the welfare of stateless and migrant children in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur hope the Government can take heed of the situation here.
The Diplomat - 22 January 2015 - Breaking the deadlock between sending and receiving states is vital if human rights are to be protected.
The Daily Star - 22 January 2015 - Saudi Arabia Labour Minister Adel Fakeih said his county is interested in hiring skilled manpower from Bangladesh.
Dev Policy Blog - 20 January 2015 - A lack of decent employment opportunities is a disturbingly prevalent issue in the Pacific. It is not necessary to expound on the reasons why this is so, as reams of paper and dozens of online blogs have described the unique circumstances of small island countries, particularly those in the Pacific (including here [pdf]).
Human Rights Watch - 21 January 2015 - Agricultural Workers Need Protection
Jakarta Post - 20 January 2015 - The Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) has flown home 481 Indonesian workers who had were stranded in Saudi Arabia because of their illegal status.
Bangkok Post - 20 January 2015 - A Hong Kong employer accused of starving and beating her Indonesian maid treated the woman as an "unpaid slave", prosecutors said on Tuesday on the last day of hearings in a case which has shocked the city.
Channel News Asia - 20 January 2015 - The Commissioner for Foreign Employee Dormitories will be able to impose conditions that licensed dormitories must comply with, including the development of quarantine plans.
My Republica - 19 January 2015 - Recruiting firms threaten to stop processing Malaysia-bound workers.
The Nation - 19 January 2015 - The promised increase of the national minimum wage, designed mainly to draw workers back from Thailand, may be officially introduced next month, according to Vientiane Times.
