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Nigeria: Why Victims’ Compensation for Failed Immigration Recruitment Is Delayed – Moro

19 July 2014, All Africa Minister of the Interior Comrade Abba Moro has promised that the federal government will fulfill its promise to the victims of the failed immigration recruitment exercise last year. He said in a statement by his special assistant on media, George Udoh, yesterday in Abuja that the delay in not implementing […]

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Iraq returned Kerala workers protest against recruitment agency

20 July 2014, EIN News Desk Aluva (Kerala, July 20: Workers from Kerala who have returned from strife torn Iraq, held a protest on Saturday against the Indian recruitment agency M.P Dominic and Co. for duping them of their money. A protest was held outside the company’s office by 17 workers who had returned to

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SINP addresses professional truck driver shortage

25 March 2014, Leader-Post The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) is a made-in-Saskatchewan program that began as a pilot project in 1998 and is operated under an agreement with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Success of the program is not only shown in numbers, but also by the many immigrants’ and their employers’ success stories. Westcan

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Are slaves catching the fish you eat?

14 June 2014, Leader-Post He was too sick to eat, and Min Min Chan’s chest ached with each breath he sucked. It didn’t matter: The Thai captain warned him to get back on deck and start hauling fish onto the trawler or be tossed overboard. As a 17-year-old slave stuck in the middle of the

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No minimum wage set for Indian maids

17 July 2014, Arab News There is no mandatory minimum wage for Indian domestic workers in the new recruitment scheme, Ahmed Al-Fuhaid, deputy labor minister for international affairs, told Arab News on Tuesday. “This is an open market and the Indian government has not placed any binding conditions in terms of monetary compensation, but fair

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55 recruitment cos banned to send workers to Qatar

17 July 2014, eKantipur The Nepali Embassy in Qatar has banned 55 recruitment agencies from supplying workers to Qatar for charging higher fee than the maximum amount fixed by the government and failing to ensure committed salary and works. “We have barred the agencies from sending migrant workers and have rejected their demand letter,” said

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Policy Brief: Labor Migration Agents: Regulation, Accountability and Alternatives

Policy Brief No. 5, June 2014 Centre for the Study of Labour & Mobility, University of New South Wales, Australia Authors: Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoleti, Bandita Sijapati, Bassina Farenblum SUMMARY The extensive use of unregulated labor migration agents is a common policy challenge in migrant labor origin countries. While agents provide migrant workers with much-needed

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Policy Brief: The Exploitation-Trafficking Continuum in Labor Migration and the Need for Reform in Nepal

Policy Brief No. 4, June 2014 Centre for the Study of Labour & Mobility, University of New South Wales, Australia Authors: Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoleti, Bandita Sijapati, Bassina Farenblum SUMMARY Every year, Nepali migrant workers report experiencing severe abuse, exploitation, debt bondage and forced labor while abroad. In some cases, where abuses are linked to

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