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“Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Indonesia”

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Open Society Foundations: Bassina Farbenblum, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoletti EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is the first comprehensive study of migrant workers’ access to justice in their country of origin. Using the case study of Indonesian migrant workers who travel to work in the Middle East, it analyses the mechanisms through which those workers may access justice […]

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“Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Nepal”

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Open Society Foundations: Sarah Paoletti, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Bandita Sijapati, Bassina Farbenblum EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Every month, nearly 16,000 Nepalis travel to the Gulf States for temporary work, and thousands more go to other countries in the Middle East. Much attention has been directed to the exploitation of low-wage migrant workers in the Middle East, where harms are

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“Migrant workers stage sit-in for compensation”

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20 July 2014, The Daily Star, Bangladesh Returning from Iraq with empty hands, 19 Bangladeshi workers today staged a sit-in in front of Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment since this morning, demanding compensation from their recruitment agencies. The workers along with eight others went to Iraq through four Bangladeshi recruitment agencies between January

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“Qatari labor report offers solutions but is unlikely to reduce pressure on World Cup host”

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21 July 2014, James M. Dorsey, Hürriyet Daily News A long-awaited Qatar Foundation report recommends a radical overhaul of the labor recruitment system in Asian labor exporting countries as well as the Gulf state that expects to host the 2022 World Cup. The report however stops short of calling for the abolition of Qatar’s widely

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“Why Foreign Workers are Reluctant to Raise Pay Issues”

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17 July 2014, The Straits Times The Migrant Workers’ Centre made several critical points about fairness for migrant workers (“Greater protection and care for migrant workers needed”; last Saturday). The recruitment process is particularly arduous for workers in the construction and marine sectors, and charges from agents, middlemen and training centres often come up to more

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“Manpower Ministry Cracks Down on Illegal Recruiters of Migrant Workers”

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16 July 2014, Edi Hardum & Vita A.D. Busyra, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. The manpower ministry has stripped 17 recruitment agencies of their permits following their attempts earlier this month to send as many as 87 migrant workers to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. “We’ll coordinate with police at the Soekarno-Hatta airport to collect

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“Recruitment Fees to Be Banned for All Migrant Workers but Real Protections Still Needed”

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Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Market Wired, 16 July 2014 TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – July 16, 2014) – The Ontario government is recognizing migrant worker abuse at the hands of recruiters by re-introducing Bill 146, but real protections for migrant workers are still missing says the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC). A law announced today

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“Ontario government introduces law to protect vulnerable workers”

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Robert Benzie, Toronto Star, 16 July 2014 Labour Minister Kevin Flynn revives Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act that would clamp down on employers and employment agencies who violate workers’ rights. Lilliane Namukasa knows what it’s like to be a vulnerable worker. So the 27-year-old, who arrived from Uganda in 2008 to work as

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