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Government to set plans in motion to end migrants’ abuse

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NewsGhana.com The Government would, from next week, start engaging Gulf States missions in Ghana, to discuss the excessive abuse of Ghanaian migrants so as to streamline foreign migration procedures and sanitise the situation. Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, made this known when a 12-Member Inter-Agency Committee on the Management […]

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Policy Brief on Practices and Regulations of Recruitment to Domestic Work

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The policy brief highlights common recruitment practices and regulations observed along recruitment pathways to domestic work in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Jordan and Lebanon. The purpose of this policy brief is to respond to the rising interest in improving recruitment practices and regulations in order to reduce vulnerability to human trafficking and forced labour. In some

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Despite migration ban, Indonesian domestic workers still face forced labour and abuses in the Gulf

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By Max Walden Equal Times | 7 September 2017 “I had only been at my employer’s house for a week and was hit and slapped repeatedly,” says Bu Tayem, a former domestic worker in Qatar, who was flown home to Indonesia in 2016 after just one year in the Gulf. Speaking outside of her home

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Activists call for improvement in migrant fishermen’s human rights

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By Ock Hyun-ju | Korea Herald 5 Sept 2017 Migrant fishermen are exposed to human rights abuses, activists and human rights lawyers said Tuesday, calling on the government and ship owners to step up efforts to improve the situation. Kim Jong-chul, a lawyer for the Seoul-based Advocates for Public Interest Law, claimed that migrant fishing

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Employer-Migrant Worker Relationships in the Middle East: Exploring scope for internal labour market mobility and fair migration

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Current sponsorship regimes in the Middle East have been criticized for creating an asymmetrical power relationship between employers and migrant workers – which can make workers vulnerable to forced labour. Essential to the vulnerability of migrant workers in the Middle East is that their sponsor controls a number of aspects related to their internal labour

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