Reports

Reports

Report: Labour Recruitment to the UAE
MFA released a report in January 2011 entitled “Labour recruitment to the UAE: Gaps between policy practice in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines". Emerging from the analysis of the case studies in the report are two key concerns: the need to better regulate the networks of sub-agents that are operating in each of […]
Report: Human Trafficking of Legal and Illegal Migrant Workers in Taiwan, Province of China
This report explores what circumstances and conditions migrant workers (documented and undocumented) face in Taiwan, Province of China that may lead them to becoming victims of human trafficking and if there are people more vulnerable than others. It takes a closer look on Taiwan, Province of China's foreign labor policies and how these policies might […]
Paper 4 – ILO Report
A vast majority of the UN-estimated 60 million migrant workers in Asia are women, and the issue of domestic workers (DWs) in the region is hardly new. In most cases, these women are engaged in domestic work in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China, Singapore, Thailand, Macau, India, Taiwan, Province of China and the Middle East. […]
Paper 3 – ILO Report
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) held a Day of General Discussion in Geneva focusing on “Protecting the Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers”. The full day of discussion took place during the eleventh session of the Committee at the United Nations Office at Geneva (Palais Wilson) […]
Paper 2 – ILO Report
At its 301st Session (March 2008), the International Labour Organization (ILO) Governing Body agreed to an agenda item on decent work for domestic workers on the agenda of the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010, with a view to the setting of labour standards.1 The final decision will be taken in 2011. ILC 2010 will decide the number […]
PGA Report Athens 2009
The Peoples’ Global Action had 2 Opening Ceremonies. The first was on November 1 at ONA Theater Hall where the organizers, led by Migrants Rights International, welcomed the participants. PGA participants who were official delegates to the offi cial GFMD then left for the Civil Society Days. On November 4, the PGA participants staged a rally at Propylaia, near […]
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