The region covers 33 countries, including Afghanistan and island countries in the Pacific. There are four ACTRAV Specialists based in the region. The right to organize and carry out collective bargaining, a lack of protection of the rights of migrant workers, practice of forced labor, bonded labor and child labor, inequality for women, increasing labor flexibility and persistent poverty are some of the major challenges facing workers and trade unions in the region.
The ratification of ILO Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise (1948), and Convention No. 98 on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining (1949), are amongst the lowest compared to the rest of the world. Out of 33 countries 17 have ratified Convention No. 87 and 20 for Convention No. 98.
The priority areas of ACTRAV work for the region include campaign for ratification of the Conventions, promotion of collective bargaining particularly in the transition economies of Vietnam, China, India and Cambodia, protection for migrant workers, and strengthening union capacity in terms of research, education and organizing.
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