18 November 2014, The Daily Star Migration experts and development activists yesterday laid emphasis on strong coordination among government and recruiting agencies and employers to ensure female migrants’ rights. A section of Bangladeshi female migrants everyday face different forms of workplace abuse, primarily physical and sexual, and are exploited either by employers or recruiting agents, […]
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16 November 2014, Gulf Times Philippine Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz will be in Doha for a three-day visit from November 21, to inaugurate the new Philippine Overseas Labour Office (POLO) building, Ambassador Crescente Relacion told Gulf Times. The labour secretary will also have a dialogue with officials and members of various Filipino organisations in Qatar
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17 November 2014, The Daily Star Languishing in Iraqi city with insufficient food, water; ambassador says they might be sent back soon. The 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers who claim to have been abducted by some locals are still passing their days in misery inside an old building in Najaf city of Iraq. The Bangladeshis were
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10 November 2014, Market Wired PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 10, 2014) – HP (NYSE: HPQ) today took a major step forward in expanding its leading supply chain program on preventing exploitative labor practices and forced labor. HP is the first company in the IT industry to require direct employment of foreign migrant workers in
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10 November 2014, The Rakyat Post THERE is a taste, a smell to freedom. You and I enjoy it. Many don’t. An estimated 20-27 million people are believed to live in slavery around the world. And many of these cases are happening in Malaysia. Indian national Lokesh Sapaliga’s horrifying experience in a Sarawak factory is
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10 November 2014, República KATHMANDU, Nov 10: The International Relations and Labor Committee of the legislature-parliament has directed the government to ensure that transactions between manpower companies and aspirant workers are made through banking system. Concluding that the fees paid by aspirant workers to manpower agencies in cash is fueling malpractices, the committee meeting held
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6 November 2014, Daily Express KOTA KINABALU: Indonesian workers are still the preferred workforce based on the experience of oil palm industry players in West Malaysia. East Malaysia Planters Association (Empa) Chairman Datuk Othman Walat said however, the association has no objection to any of its members trying out Bangladeshi workers in their plantation. “In
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October 2014, Open Working Group on Labour Migration & Recruitment The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants will dedicate one of his 2016 reports to the Human Rights Council on international labour recruitment. His office requested inputs from civil society to contribute to the substance and analysis of his report. In response,