6 January 2015, Jakarta Post Opinion Column: Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific On a recent trip to Cambodia I met a group of young people who were eager to pursue a better life by going to work abroad, although they were concerned that many migrant workers faced unfair treatment. I told […]
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3 January 2015, Arab News The Ministry of Labor confirmed on Sunday that the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian workers has not been lifted yet and is awaiting the approval of the ministry following its review of the regulations which guarantee the rights of both workers and their sponsors. “The Saudi and Ethiopian sides
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31 December 2014, Gulf Times A number of rules are in place to protect the interest of workers going abroad, says a Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs official. With increasing focus on problems faced by people seeking overseas jobs and those already working abroad, the government of India has adopted several measures, most important among
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24 December 2014, Arab News There are at least 30 violations recorded on a daily basis involving the smuggling of maids into the Eastern Province from Bahrain and other Gulf nations, officials from local recruitment offices have said. They said that smuggling, aided by some recruitment companies, has increased because of the difficulty faced by
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19 December 2014, Migrant-Rights.org In a Q & A with Migrant-Rights.Org, ILO Senior Migration Specialist for the Arab States Hans van de Glind discusses the challenges faced by both migrant workers and countries in the GCC. Can you give us an idea the kind of progress made with the GCC & MENA in the last
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19 December 2014, The Cambodia Daily The Labor Ministry on Thursday launched a new three-year policy for improving the lot of Cambodia’s more than 700,000 migrant workers that includes plans to step up monitoring of the country’s often-abusive recruitment agencies and add labor attachés to more embassies. Released to coincide with International Migration Day, the
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10 December 2014, GulfNews.com Ministry of Labour trying out recruiting portal Dubai: Labourers or workers that have been recruited through a recruiting agency to the UAE are most at risk of human trafficking in the trial period — temporary work — and during change of sponsorship, a speaker at the conference said. Sultan Bin Juwe’ed,
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11 December 2014, MarketWired TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Dec. 11, 2014) – The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has issued a statement regarding a recruitment program run by the federal government, in the wake of data pointing to the systemic exclusion of hiring women. The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), administered by the federal government, brings