Singapore resources

January 2021

  1. Labour Migration in Asia and the Pacific

    A brief on ILO's priorities in Asia and the Pacific, January 2021 edition

December 2020

  1. Media-friendly glossary on migration: Women migrant workers and ending violence against women (EVAW) edition

    This glossary serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, practitioners and others who conduct trainings or write about women’s labour migration and violence against women.

  2. ILO and Singapore cooperation on labour issues to continue

    Extension of Partnership Agreement between International Labour Organization and Singapore Ministry of Manpower will see continuation of collaboration and joint activities throughout the ASEAN region.

  3. Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN (2019 data)

    The International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database in ASEAN has been published annually since December 2014. In validating, annotating and gathering information from relevant surveys and administrative records produced in ASEAN, ILMS Database in ASEAN fills an important knowledge gap for national and regional policy-makers and for the broader research community. In 2019 ILMS was updated to ensure data disaggregations by sex for all data categories. This allows for a concerted focus on data on women migrant workers throughout ASEAN. The collection and use of data on women migrant workers in ASEAN ensures that women are counted and seen. Only with accurate data, can governments form evidence-based, gender-responsive policies and tripartite-plus partners ensure essential service provision is proportionate to women’s numbers in labour migration.

  4. Public attitudes towards migrant workers in Singapore

    In 2019 the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative’s Safe and Fair (ILO and UN Women) and TRIANGLE in ASEAN (ILO) projects conducted a survey of 4,099 nationals, a follow-up to an earlier survey carried out by the ILO in 2010, to analyse changes of public attitudes towards migrant workers in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, and adding Japan, given its emergence as an important destination country for low-skilled migrant workers in Asia. The study reveals that support for migrant workers in destination countries has decreased overall in the past nine years. The study also provides data evidence for policy making and campaign organizing to promote a more inclusive and supportive environment for migrant workers. The focus on women migrant workers’ issues in the report uncovers topics with high support from the public that can be leveraged as entry points. Where there is considerable public support for addressing violence as well as bolstering working conditions for domestic workers, policy change might be easier, with reforms that can ensure positive migration outcomes for women migrant workers.

  5. Mobile women and mobile phones: Women migrant workers’ use of information and communication technologies in ASEAN

    The joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region (part of the multi-year EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls) undertook a qualitative study involving potential and returned women migrant workers in four countries of origin in the ASEAN region – Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and the Philippines. The study covers intra-ASEAN labour migration, including women who intended to migrate to, or had just returned from, Malaysia, Singapore, or Thailand. The study provides insight into women migrant workers’ use of mobile phones, and how women migrant workers could access more accurate information throughout the migration process and increase their connections with peers.

  6. Virtual technical discussion on the mutual recognition of skills on Building Electrical Wiring: A collaboration between Thailand and Cambodia

    1 - 3 December 2020

    ILO, through the ILO/Korea Partnership Programme, and in collaboration with Cambodia's Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training and Thailand's Ministry of Labour, organized an online technical discussion on the mutual recognition of skills for Building Electrial Wiring Level 1. This effort attends to moving towrds the mutual recognition of skills in ASEAN.

November 2020

  1. Recommendations of the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)

    These are the recommendations of the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labor, held at Ha Noi, Viet Nam and Virtual on 10 and 12 November 2020.

  2. Recommendations of the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

    These are the recommendations of the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour, held at Ha Noi, Viet Nam and Virtual on 10 and 12 November 2020.

October 2020

  1. Recording - Report Launch: Regional Study on Green Jobs Policy Readiness in ASEAN

    Recording of ASEAN Green Jobs Policy Readiness Report Launch event held as part of Asia Pacific Climate Week 2021