Malaysia has agreed, in principle, with all the measurements Indonesia has proposed to protect its migrant workers following a ban on sending migrants to the country, says the Indonesian Foreign Ministry.
“In principle, we have already reached a deal, but we have to look at the implementation before the ban can be revoked,” Arief Havas Oegroseno, [...]
The Interior Ministry wants to reach Thai women who move to Finland in order to better inform them of their rights and give them information about living in this country.
This would include giving them information in their native language about workers’ rights and responsibilities and other legal and social matters. The aim is to reach [...]
On 04 November 2009, grassroots migrants associations, service providers, trade unions, including migrants advocates from the academe held a dialogue and strategy meeting in Athens, Greece. It positively came out with a communiqué that laid down things that the participants would work together on in support for the recognition of domestic work as work, specifically [...]
The year 2009 started and ended with an unprecedented economic crisis brought about by neo-liberal globalization. Migrant workers in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region were not spared from the severe impacts of the global economic downturn and with the crisis still raging, grave treatment to migrant workers areexpected to persist.
Last year, many migrant [...]
Joint Statement on the Principle of Non-Refoulement and the Recent Forced Deportations of the Uighurs from Cambodia and the Lao Hmong from Thailand
(Released: 14 January 2010)
We, the undersigned, condemn the actions in the last days of 2009 of some Asian governments in requesting, encouraging and performing the forcible deportation (refoulement) of refugees and asylum [...]
12 January 2010
by Andy Hall, Director, the Human Rights and Development Foundation’s (HRDF)
Migrant Justice Programme (MJP)
On 20th January (or in just 8 working days) the end of the “permission to stay and work in Thailand for one year, pending deportation” for 61, 543 Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian migrants who “illegally” entered the country will arrive. [...]
Around 450 migrant workers mostly from Indonesia and the Philippines celebrated the International Migrants Day celebration in Macau through cultural presentations and speeches on Dec. 20 at the Three Lamps Park. The activity was organized by the Macau Migrants Rights Network (MMRN) and was also utilized to air out concerns against the new Migrants Law [...]
18 December 2009, Chiang Mai Thailand – “It is nice to meet many people in the same situation as mine,” said Khun Man from Shan State, Burma. She has been in Chiang Mai for more than 25 years working as a seller at a grocery store. Her husband works at construction sites. Khun Man is [...]
Jakarta Traffic Police reported that on Thursday Jakarta would host 11 rallies, including those held to commemorate the International Migrants Day, which fall on Dec. 18, issuing warning of possible traffic congestion near the rally sites.
The police said in their website that a group calling themselves Indonesian Migrant Labor Defender Team would held a rally [...]
Journalist, photographer and author, David Bacon, talks about his latest book, ILLEGAL PEOPLE: HOW GLOBALIZATION CREATES MIGRATION AND CRIMINALIZES IMMIGRANTS.
You can purchase the book at: Pdxjustice Media Productions
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In this incisive investigation of the global political and economic forces creating migration, journalist and former labor organizer Bacon [...]
