6 January 2015, Jakarta Post Opinion Column: Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific On a recent trip to Cambodia I met a group of young people who were eager to pursue a better life by going to work abroad, although they were concerned that many migrant workers faced unfair treatment. I told […]
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19 December 2014, Migrant-Rights.org In a Q & A with Migrant-Rights.Org, ILO Senior Migration Specialist for the Arab States Hans van de Glind discusses the challenges faced by both migrant workers and countries in the GCC. Can you give us an idea the kind of progress made with the GCC & MENA in the last
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12 March 2014, Al Jazeera / Fault Lines From India to Dubai and Afghanistan, we probe the system that brings foreign labourers to US military bases abroad. Today there are nearly 40,000 foreign contract workers on bases in the US military’s Central Command. Hailing primarily from India and Nepal, these labourers serve American troops in
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14 November 2014, New Republic The ugly business of how military contractors find their workers In September 2012, President Obama issued an executive order asserting a zero tolerance policy for government contractors who violated human trafficking laws. He specifically targeted recruitment fees that workers in southeast Asia frequently pay for work with military contractors in
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28 November 2014, The World Post Qatar is signaling rejection of demands by human rights and trade union activists to grant trade union and collective bargaining rights to its majority migrant worker population with the detention and likely deportation of more than 100 predominantly South Asian laborers, who went on strike to protest low pay
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29 November 2014, The Guardian UAE projects involving major western museums accused of treating foreign labourers as modern-day slaves The United Nations is investigating the abuse of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, where the British Museum and other major western museums, including the Guggenheim, are involved in a multibillion-pound cultural hub. The move,
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28 November 2014, Arab News Manpower firms in the Saudi market responded to the Ministry of Labor’s pressure and published the prices and the cost of recruiting domestic workers on the “Mosanid” website before the deadline, next Monday. As of yesterday, 166 out of 329 certified recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have published the costs
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25 November 2014, Global Construction Review Doha’s success in winning the 2019 World Athletics Championship was unexpected – the US city of Eugene, in Oregon, was favourite. What was more predictable was that the victory would be the signal for another chorus of calls for Qatar to do more to safeguard the welfare of its
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