Tag: Labour Rights
Thai Protests Leave Many Burmese Migrant Workers without Visas
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand are struggling to extend expired working visas as continuous anti-government protests in Bangkok and elsewhere affect the country’s administration, leaving thousands at risk of arrest, according to sources.
“Because of political rallies, it has not been easy to negotiate between the two governments for Burmese...
Crackdown on human rights weighs on Cambodia
Against the backdrop of a month of fierce protests, the worst state violence in Cambodia for 15 years, and an escalating crackdown on protesting workers, the United Nations this week launched its second Universal Periodical Review (UPR) of the country's human rights record.
All UN members undergo the process every...
Thai Government ‘Lacks Interest’ in Solving Burma Migrant Labor Abuse
Allegations of serious violations of labor and human rights have been made against four factories in Thailand that employ many thousands of Burmese. One of the firms is involved in the manufacture of famous international fruit juice brands.
The allegations, made by the Helsinki-based corporate responsibility advocacy group Finnwatch, involve...
Cambodia: Garment Factories Thwarting Unions
The Cambodian government should ensure that garment factories stop intimidating and threatening workers seeking to form unions and assert their labor rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should cease banning public demonstrations and using security forces to disperse worker protests, and instead enforce the country’s labor laws.
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MARUAH calls for bigger CPF payout
Human rights group, MARUAH, has called the government to increase CPF interest rates and its minimum retirement payout in the upcoming 2014 Budget Statement.
The group wants the government launch a study to find out the minimum income required by Singaporeans for retirement and subsequently increase the interest rates on...
CAMBODIA: Twenty three protesters detained for demanding an increase of the minimum wage must be released unconditionally
As it has been widely reportedly, since December 2013, workers from garment factories owned by foreign companies have gone on strike in Cambodia. The workers are demanding an increase of minimum wage for garment workers, from USD80 to USD160 a month, the average cost which the government itself estimated...
Poverty Wages Unraveling Cambodia’s Garment Industry
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6 2014 (IPS) - Cambodia’s garment industry is regularly plagued with strikes and protests. But when armed security forces opened fire on striking workers in the capital city of Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, killing five and injuring dozens, it suddenly became clear that this was...
PHILIPPINES: A labor leader object of threats and fellow workers shot at while holding a protest
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a labour leader, threatened in 2005 and 2006, has been shot at, while he and his colleagues, some 100 plantation workers were holding a protest in front of their employer’s home.
UPDATED INFORMATION: (Based on the information received from...
Indonesia: Exploited domestic workers urgently need legal protection
Millions of domestic workers in Indonesia are at risk of economic exploitation and routine abuse while living in legal limbo without protection, Amnesty International said as the country marks National Domestic Workers Day on 15 February.
The organization called on parliament to urgently pass a domestic workers law before its...
No proof of alleged human rights violations vs OFWs in Malaysia so far – President Aquino
MANILA -- President Benigno S Aquino III on Wednesday said the government has no verification if reports of alleged human rights violations against Filipino workers in Malaysia were at all true.
“I have not seen any proof of alleged human rights violations,” the President said in Filipino, during an ambush...
