5 February 2015, News Next International Desk: Bangladesh is ready to send over two million trained workers to Saudi Arabia including 500,000 maids to meet the Kingdom’s labour requirement, reported Arab News. The workforce would include engineers, maids, nurses and drivers, said Consul General Shahidul Karim in comments published on Wednesday. Saudi has already set […]
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23 January 2015, GCR Government pushes Qatar to set a minimum wage for 400,000 migrant workers and cut out private labour agencies The government of Nepal has set out a raft of measures to prevent its citizens from being exploited when they work abroad, with particular emphasis on regulating the conduct of labour agencies that
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30 January 2015, NITI Central India declared “national mourning” on January 24 as a mark of respect for Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz who died on January 23. The national flag was flown at half-mast throughout the country. As the 79-year-old king Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, who is not in good health, nominates the princes and
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29 January 2015, The Financial Express It is a welcome piece of news that the Saudi Arabia has decided to reopen its labour market for local jobseekers after a seven-year ban on manpower recruitment from Bangladesh. The country’s overall manpower export started declining significantly when the Saudi authorities brought allegations of anomalies in the recruitment
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5 January 2015, Kafa (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, Lebanon Prepared by Kafa (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, Lebanon, this video is based on a report that examines the processes and practices pertaining to the recruitment of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) from Nepal and Bangladesh and explores their work and living conditions in Lebanon. Click here for
3 January 2015, Arab News The Ministry of Labor confirmed on Sunday that the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian workers has not been lifted yet and is awaiting the approval of the ministry following its review of the regulations which guarantee the rights of both workers and their sponsors. “The Saudi and Ethiopian sides
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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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11 December 2014, MarketWired TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Dec. 11, 2014) – The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has issued a statement regarding a recruitment program run by the federal government, in the wake of data pointing to the systemic exclusion of hiring women. The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), administered by the federal government, brings
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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