25 September 2014, Dhaka Tribune Ershad, one of the protesters, said the workers were sent to Sudan in January this year with employment at a textile company, where they worked for eight months without proper wages. A group of cheated migrant workers formed a human chain in the capital yesterday demanding the compensation that the […]
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21 September 2014, Arab News A total of 18 recruitment firms in the Kingdom will hire workers for contractors on a short-term basis to complete stalled projects, according to industry experts. These construction companies are, nevertheless, in need of enhanced, long-term recruitment initiatives to cover for the shortage of workers in the local market. “We
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19 September 2014, FMT News PETALING JAYA: The widespread practice of forced labour in Malaysia has alarmed the International Labour Organization (ILO) whose Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) have said this practice must “be urgently addressed”. To this end, the ILO has begun working with the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) to develop
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19 September 2014, Malaysiakini.com The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), is seriously concerned about the findings of the report by Verité, ‘Forced Labour in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia, A Comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristics’. Although ROAP is not in a position to verify the
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19 September 2014, FarmingShow.com (New Zealand) Filipino migrant workers are bearing the brunt of hefty recruitment costs, taking the weight off Canterbury employers to pay their fair share. Newstalk ZB understands some workers from the Philippines are being charged upwards of $10,000 by recruitment agencies to come to New Zealand. Meanwhile, employers are being charged
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Verité, September 2014 New Research from Verité exposes forced labour in the Malaysian electronics industry, citing the global labour recruitment regime as a major causes of abuses. From the Vérite media release: Groundbreaking Research Offers Concrete Evidence of Widespread Forced Labor Among Foreign Migrant Workers in Malaysian Electronics You might think about debt bondage in relation
17 September 2014, New York Times Nearly one in three migrant workers in Malaysia’s thriving electronics industry toils under forced labor conditions, essentially trapped in the job, a factory monitoring group found in a report issued on Wednesday. The monitoring group, Verité — which conducted a two-year investigation commissioned by the United States Department of
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13 September, The Guardian The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on the United Nations to investigate evidence that thousands of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, including those building a new Louvre museum and the world’s largest Guggenheim, are treated as slave labour. The confederation has called on the UN’s International Labour
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9 September 2014, Albawaba.com Migrant worker recruitment agencies are making elaborate profits off the back of migrant domestic workers who continue to face extremely harsh labor and living conditions in Lebanon, a new report said. “The report found that those migrant domestic workers interviewed as part of this study are victims of practices that are
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Kafa (Enough) Violence Against Women, September 2014 On September 8, KAFA (Enough) Violence Against Women (Lebanon) released a report entitled “Dreams for Sale: The Exploitation of Domestic Workers from Recruitment in Nepal and Bangladesh to Working in Lebanon.” This report examines the processes and practices pertaining to the recruitment of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) from
