Indian Apex Court Tells Government to Expedite Migrant Database Completion The Indian government doesn’t have a database of internal migrants who are employed in unorganised sector. Out of the total employed, around 75 percent are in the unorganised sector Rejimon Kuttappan As millions of Indian workers in the unorganised sector are stranded in…
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Policy Brief No. 2, 2021 Inclusion of Vulnerable Migrant Groups in COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies in Bahrain The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread changes in the area of labour migration – with the impact upon migrant workers’ jobs and lives as well as those of their families. While the initial focus of countries of destination (COD) were…
Continue Reading ...‘I will fight for compensation’ An Indian woman tailor in UAE who was injured in a road accident and repatriated in a wheelchair has moved papers to fight a compensation case. Rejimon Kuttappan On September 19, 2019, Anitha Kumary, a 51-year-old Indian woman tailor, was hit by a car in Abu Dhabi. She suffered…
Continue Reading ...“Hunger Games for Real: The Bangla Worker Abroad” The Transient Workers Count Too, with the support of Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), is organizing a webinar titled “Hunger Games for Real: The Bangla Worker Abroad” on 3 June 2021 at 8PM Manila. The webinar shall explore the many ways in which labour migration can…
Continue Reading ...COVID-19 Second Wave in India Pushes Internal Migrants into Brink Many have started returning home from the cities they work fearing lockdowns Rejimon Kuttappan Nibir Sanjan, a 35-year-old migrant construction in Ernakulam, a central Kerala town in India, has purchased a train ticket to his home in Assam, which is some 3,300km far. “The landlord…
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Policy Brief No. 1, 2021 Inclusion of Vulnerable Migrant Groups in COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies in the UAE The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread changes in the area of labour migration – with the impact upon migrant workers’ jobs and lives as well as those of their families. While the initial focus of countries of destination (COD)…
Continue Reading ...Migrant workers standing in queue to return home at Delhi Anant Vihar Bus Station following the announcement of lockdown. Picture Courtesy: Twitter If duration is medium, travel bans increase infections, says study Based on the study in India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya, a Chicago institute finds that if not imposed for…
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2021 Global Media Competition International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Federation of Journalists, Equal Times, Solidarity Centre, and Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) launches the 2021 Global Media Competition (GMC) . This…
Continue Reading ...Women Migrants’ Wages Are Also Stolen Analyzing the SOS calls at our office, we can say that hundreds of migrant women domestic workers are subjected to wage theft and exploitation in all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Lebanon, says a CSO head in Dhaka Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan Riya Akter, a 30-year-old Bangladeshi…
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The Nepalese Version of the Migrant Forum in Asia 12 Reasons to Ratify ILO C189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers is now available for download. Please find below the full publication. The PDF Version of the File is available for download below:
As part of the regional campaign for the ratification of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, MFA developed the 12 reasons to Ratify ILO C189. Please find below the full text of the publication. A PDF copy of the publication can also be downloaded below. 1. 67 Million domestic workers across the…
A national consultation for the ratification of ILO C 189 was held on 26 November 2018 in Dhaka Bangladesh. The consultation was organized by MFA, RMMRU and DWRN as part of the on-going campaign for decent work for domestic workers.
MFA in Collaboration with NNSM, Home Workers Trade Union organized a nation consultation on the ratification of ILO C189 held on 15 November 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal as part of the campaign on decent work for domestic workers.
The 2017 Mapping to Enhance Collective Advocacy, Action and Empowerment of Domestic Workers in Asia: Survey Results is now available for download. The report was prepared by MFA and IDWF.
Migrant Forum in Asia was invited to speak at the high level panel on Women and girls on the Move: Towards Safer Work and Migration for Women, Assessing Determinants of Vulnerability and Women’s Empowerment through Migration. The Panel was part of the 2018 European Development Days and organized by the Swiss Agency for Development and…
On 14 March 2018, Migrant forum in Asia in collaboration with the Bangladesh Civil Society for Migration, organized a national consultation on the Ratification of ILO C189 on domestic work. The consultation was the culmination of a series of meetings and programs to launch a national campaign for the ratification of the ILO C189 on…
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) in Collaboration with the National Network Safe Migration organized a national consultation to discuss Nepal’s ratification of ILO C189 on domestic work. The consultation was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 20 March 2018. Thirty participants representing migrant CSOs, trade unions, women’s organizations and members of the National Network participated in…
Domestic worker leaders and representatives, domestic workers’ unions and federations, migrant groups and advocates, trade unions, civil society groups, lawyers, academics and members of parliament from ASEAN member countries and other Asian countries came together on 22-24 October 2017 in Manila for a regional gathering, to follow-up on decisions and plans agreed at our first Asian regional domestic workers’ conference in 2011 and to take stock of the developments six years after the adoption of that landmark treaty.
