Restrictions on women’s labour migration ranging from outright migration bans to prerequisites relating to age and marital status – are one way in which states attempt to address the risk of exploitation and abuse faced by women migrant workers. Though intended to protect women from harm, gender-based migration restrictions violate numerous international legal standards addressing […]
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20 March 2016, Trade Arabia There has been a significant improvement in the migrant workers’ living conditions and also their rights in Qatar following a critical report from the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) tripartite inspection commission three years ago. Two assessments – a report of the ILO tripartite inspection commission and a leagal assessment from
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19 February 2016, Reuters Investigate Nestor Molina has made a living looking for Honduran workers to pick fruit in Florida. Now, some of the workers he recruited, their lawyers, and the U.S. government are looking for him. Molina, 53, is among the middlemen hired by companies to help bring foreign workers to the United States
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21 December 2015, The Phnom Penh Post Prime Minister Hun Sen signed five deals with his Thai counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha during a state visit on Friday and Saturday, aiming to strengthen bilateral ties, ramp up trade and improve the conditions of migrant workers. The prime ministers agreed to step up border patrols to combat logging,
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4 September 2015, The Toronto Star After lobbying by oil companies, the federal government allowed Alberta to recruit foreign workers faster than before. Gil McGowan was elected president of the Alberta Federation of Labour in 2005, just as oilsands development was starting to heat up. And he has been in the hot seat ever since.
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15 March 2015, Taipei Times LIFTING A BAN:Minister of Labor Chen Hsiung-wen said officials from Taiwan and Vietnam were meeting to discuss new regulations for Vietnamese workers Taiwan recruited 10,906 Vietnamese workers during the first two months of this year, making it Vietnam’s largest labor export market, according to the latest official data from Hanoi.
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26 February 2015, USC News Migrant workers isolated from technology and social networks are more vulnerable to human trafficking, forced labor and exploitation, according to a new report released today by the Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “Technology and Labor Trafficking in a Network
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25 February 2015 Tech Investor News, The UK is considering relaxing the rules under which IT-related roles can be offered to foreign workers. The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending that the government eases regulations on hiring non-European data scientists, senior developers, cyber security specialists and product managers. The MAC is an independent body
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18 February 2015, Southern Poverty Law Center A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who
17 February 2015, New Vision KAMPALA – The Ugandan ministry of gender, labour and social development has released a list (at bottom of page) of only 25 licensed private overseas recruitment companies in Uganda. The companies complied with the requirements of externalization of labour, most of which is to countries in the Middle East, according
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