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Promoting the Rights of Women Migrant Workers through Employment Contracts

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This three-part Policy Brief series identifies actions to develop and implement effective, rights-based and gender responsive protections for women workers migrating from South Asia to the Middle East. The policy briefs address three key stages during which protections for women migrant workers are developed, implemented, and monitored. Promoting the Rights of Women Migrant Workers through […]

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Making International Labour Migration Governance Gender-Responsive

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This three-part Policy Brief series identifies actions to develop and implement effective, rights-based and gender responsive protections for women workers migrating from South Asia to the Middle East. The policy briefs address three key stages during which protections for women migrant workers are developed, implemented, and monitored. Making International Labour Migration Governance Gender Responsive outlines

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Taiwan mulls loosening rules on foreign labor employment for companies relocating back home

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Taiwan News | 9 November 2019 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan will consider relaxing regulations governing the employment of foreign labor to meet the expected rise in demand for laborers as Taiwanese businesses relocate their operations to Taiwan in the face of the U.S.-China trade conflict. At a Cabinet meeting promoting investment in Taiwan on

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The changing face of Japan: labour shortage opens doors to immigrant workers

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The Guardian | 8 November 2018 Japan – once one of the world’s most homogenous societies – is starting to unwind its traditional opposition to large-scale immigration. One by one, Mohammad and Munadi thread scallop shells on to thin metal rods, breaking the monotony with quiet chatter in their native Javanese. The shells will soon

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Japan expects acceptance of 40,000 foreign workers in first year of proposed new visas rules: sources

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Japan Times | 4 November 2018 Some 40,000 foreign workers are expected to be accepted in the first year the new visa categories go into effect, with the total rising to 250,000 after five years, government sources said Saturday. The government, which submitted a related bill to revise the immigration control law Friday, does not

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Nepal and Malaysia sign labour pact

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Kathmandu Post | 29 October 2018 Nepal on Monday signed a labour agreement with Malaysia, the most preferred job destination for Nepali migrant workers, in Kathmandu. Nepali Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Gokarna Bista and Malaysian Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Recruitment, Employment, and Repatriation

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LDP panel approves proposed immigration law change to accept more foreign workers

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The Mainichi | 30 October 2018 TOKYO — The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Judicial Affairs Division approved a package of government-proposed legal revisions to accept more foreign workers on Oct. 29, paving the way for submission of the measures to the current extraordinary session of the Diet. The government hopes to pass the draft revisions

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The Rights of Domestic Workers Between Legislative System and Enforcement Through Law 68 of Year 2015

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The study aims to examine the extent to which domestic workers, employers, recruitment agencies and civil society that deal with domestic workers benefit from Law No. 68 on domestic workers, year 2015. The study also looks at the effectiveness of the implementation of the law three years after it was adopted. Migrant domestic workers account

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