22 October 2014, The Phnom Penh Post A recruiter was charged yesterday with duping 24 migrant worker hopefuls out of more than $40,000 in exchange for jobs in South Korea that she allegedly had no means of delivering. The workers went to Em Sam Ouen’s Cambodian Organisation for Veteran Economic Development in Phnom Penh last […]
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1 October 2014, The Nation & Foreign Policy in Focus Excerpt: In Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, more than 157 million people live on about 57,000 square miles of land. That’s a population greater than Russia’s living in a country smaller than the state of Illinois. We heard over
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30 September 2014, People’s World Three times each month, dozens of women gather in dusty courtyards in rural towns in Manikganj, Dinazpur or other districts across Bangladesh to learn all they can about the only means by which they can support their families: migrating to another country for work. In leading these information sessions, the
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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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28 August 2014, The Cambodia Daily A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. The 50 workers, who were part of a group of
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26 August 2014, Press.co.nz Migrant workers in New Zealand are at risk of working in slavery-like conditions, a Human Rights Commission diversity forum has heard. Organisers of the two-day forum, which finished in Christchurch yesterday, said the treatment of refugee and migrant workers in this country was a “top human rights priority”. In a discussion
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21 August 2014, Arab News Many expat families in the Kingdom continue to express concern over the increasing price of housemaid services offered by labor recruitment agencies. Demand continues to soar as recruitment agencies in the Kingdom face a major shortage in the number of domestic maids. Riyadh-based labor recruitment agency Saudi Manpower Services (SMASCO),
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18 August 2014, República KATHMANDU, August 18: The government has said that it has been negotiating with major source countries to make the recruitment process free of cost for Nepalis migrant workers. “We have been advocating for zero recruitment cost for Nepali migrant workers. To materialize this idea, the role of countries seeking migrant workers
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18 August 2014, eKantipur.com KATHMANDU, AUG 18 – The government is preparing to request Malaysia to repatriate thousands of Nepali migrant workers who have been stranded in the Islamic kingdom. The move could benefit at least 40,000 Nepali workers staying illegally in the country, many of whom have been languishing in detention centres for months.
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12 August 2014, Manila Bulletin The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has cancelled the license of recruitment agency Japhil 2000 International Agency Corporation which was found liable for charging excessive placement fee from a worker it deployed to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. POEA administrator Hans Cacdac said in a statement that the agency was found
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