Members of Parliament from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Germany and Spain signed a petition calling for the urgent investigation of teh disappearance of Mr. Sombath Samphone. Mr. Sombath Samphone is a prominent human rights activis and human rights leader from Laos. On the evening of 15 December 2012 Sombath was abducted in Vientiane while driving home. CCTV footage shows that he was stopped by police and then taken...
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Strategies for Effective Social Protection for Migrant Workers: Manila, November 23-25, 2012 The 2012 Caucus meeting on 23-25 November 2012 in Pasig City, Philippines was co-hosted by MFA, the FES Regional Office in Singapore, and the Philippines’ Congressional Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs, which is chaired by Representative Walden Bello. Migrant workers from the Philippines participated in this program for the first time,...
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On November 1st, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled “They Deceived Us at Every Step: Abuses against Cambodian Domestic Workers Migrating to Malaysia.” This report presents detailed documentation of the significant abuses and exploitation of Cambodian domestic workers during recruitment, work abroad, and upon their return home. We, members of the Asian Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Labour Migration, welcome this report as...
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Thirty-Four Members of Parliament from across Asia, in a strong display of solidarity with migrant domestic workers, have signed a statement endorsing the recently-released Human Rights Watch Report on Cambodian Domestic Workers in Malaysia. The initiative to endorse this report was taken by members of the Asian Inter-Parliamentary Caucus on Labour Migration. This endorsement of the Human Rights Watch report is among the first...
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