Tag: Migrant Rights
Migrants processing Thai chicken exports ‘abused, exploited’
Violence, child labour, salary cuts among complaints by Cambodian, Myanmar migrants
6 Nov 2015 at 11:28
WRITER: THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION AND BANGKOK POST
LONDON - Migrants processing Thai chicken for its biggest export market, Europe, face widespread abuse by their employers, partly because foreign auditors have focused on food safety rather than...
Rohingya Conflict Can Be Solved With Myanmar Commitment to Goodwill
BESET BY communal violence and frequently denied their human rights, life for many in Myanmar's Rakhine State is desperately grim. But our fieldwork suggests there is a path towards peace.
By Anthony Ware and Ronan Lee
Monday, December 7, 2015
BESET BY communal violence and frequently denied their human rights, life for...
Myanmar: Drop Charges Against “Rohingya Calendar” Defendants
The Myanmar government should immediately and unconditionally drop all charges against six men for printing the word “Rohingya” in a 2016 calendar, Fortify Rights said today.
Ensure Freedom of Expression and Protection for Defendants
(YANGON, December 11, 2015)— The Myanmar government should immediately and unconditionally drop all charges against six men...
Thailand: Human Trafficking Case Obstructed, Chief Investigator in Hiding
The chief investigator and key witness in a high-profile, mass criminal trial of alleged human traffickers in Thailand has left the country following threats against his life, Fortify Rights said today
Thailand should reopen inquiry into human trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshis
(WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2015)— The chief investigator and...
Malaysia maid pipeline resumes
Cambodia has signed a long-anticipated agreement to resume the legal flow of domestic workers to Malaysia, putting an end to a ban introduced more than four years ago amid reports of serious migrant abuses, which had led to multiple deaths.
Fri, 11 December 2015
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
Cambodia has signed...
Burma colony residents to be resettled in Perumbakkam
Burma Colony in Nandambakkam will soon be a non-address. More than 400 families there, mostly refugees from Myanmar who came here some 50 years ago, will be shifted to Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board tenements in Perumbakkam.
CHENNAI: Burma Colony in Nandambakkam will soon be a non-address. More than 400...
Officials agreed that 10,000 children in Tak should be registered: lawyer
ABOUT 10,000 unregistered children in Tak province are still waiting to be recognised and registered according to human rights lawyer Surapong Kongchantuk, chairman of the Lawyers Council of Thailand’s human rights subcommittee on ethnic minorities.
VISARUT SANKHAM
THE NATION February 1, 2016 1:00 am
ABOUT 10,000 unregistered children in Tak province are...
Myanmar: Facilitate Right to Return and Reparations for Displaced Muslim Rohingya
The Rakhine State government had plans to sell Muslim-owned properties and commercial licenses this month in the state capital Sittwe without consent from or benefit to those who were forced into internment camps in 2012. The Rakhine State government recently put the plan on hold.
Scrap plan to sell vacated...
Grim Future Awaits Migrant Workers
So are we now, after seven years, seeing a deregularization process for migrant workers?
By ANDY HALL / BANGKOK POST| Tuesday, March 1, 2016 |
Since 2009, Thai governments have had a general nationwide migration policy to meet strong national economic, demographic and lifestyle demands that enabled—but didn’t necessarily ensure or...
Indonesia to Set Stricter Limits to Foreign Workers
As unemployment remains high, Indonesia is now bracing for the more serious impact of the ASEAN Economic Community
Posted On 03 May 2016
By : Leo Jegho
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Tag: AEC, ASEAN Economic Community, Foreign Workers, Indonesia, news
Jakarta, GIVnews.com – The government will more strictly regulate the recruitment of foreigners to work in...
