Resources on labour migration

  1. Event

    Regional Meeting on Increasing Productivity through Enhancing the Safety and Health of Migrant Workers

    The mobility of professionals in the ASEAN region is expected to increase significantly with the realization of the ASEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) Blueprint for the free flow of skilled labour by 2015. Increased efforts will be needed to ensure that robust regulatory frameworks are in place across the region when the AEC is scheduled to commence in 2015

  2. Event

    Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers and ILO-ASEAN TRIANGLE Project Regional Civil Society Consultation: Post 6th AFML Activities

    The primary objective of this consultation is to identify activities that national CSO stakeholders will undertake to implement the Recommendations of the 6th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) and to assess the extent to which CSO have contributed to the implementation of the AFML recommendations (3rd, 4th, 5th)

  3. Event

    ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference 2014

    It is the succeeding event to three previous conferences that tackled and provided recommendations on national and ASEAN-level issues which included developing new methods and tools for improving labour inspection effectiveness, strengthening enforcement of national safety and health laws, and concerns surrounding labour migration, child labour, and the agricultural sector.

  4. Event

    Civil Society Forum on ILO Domestic Workers' Convention, 2011 (No.189)

    The increasing participation of national workers in the formal sectors of the economy generates the necessity to hire foreign workers to perform domestic chores.

  5. Event

    Meeting of Focal Specialists on International Labour Migration Statistics in ASEAN

    The ILO’s ASEAN TRIANGLE Project recently developed the International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database to gather statistical information on migrant workers in the ten ASEAN member states, including a range of previously unpublished sources.

  6. Meeting document

    Report - ILO Consultation/Validation Workshop On the Implementation of Mutual Recognition of Skills in ASEAN Countries, 24-26 September 2014, Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia

    24 April 2014

    Report - ILO Consultation/Validation Workshop On the Implementation of Mutual Recognition of Skills in ASEAN Countries, 24-26 September 2014, Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia

  7. Video

    Saphan Siang (Bridge of Voices)

    25 March 2014

    In 2012, the Saphan Siang campaign and the DEAR Burma school held an interactive art event for Thai and Myanmar youth. The Thai youth group UNITE produced this video to share the campaign's message and migrant workers' stories.

  8. Working conditions

    Employment practices and working conditions in Thailand’s fishing sector

    24 February 2014

    The report, based on the largest survey of working conditions in the Thai fishing sector to date, has been compiled by the ILO’s tripartite project to protect migrant workers within and from the Greater Mekong Subregion and the Asian Research Center for Migration at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Asian Studies.

  9. Meeting document

    Meeting summary of the Role of Employers’ Organizations in Matching Skills and Increasing Mobility Across the ASEAN Region: Employers’ Regional Workshop – ASEAN TRIANGLE Project

    06 November 2013

    Meeting Summary for The role of Employers’ Organizations in Matching Skills and increasing Mobility across the ASEAN region: Employers’ Regional Workshop – ASEAN TRIANGLE Project, 6 November 2013, Bali, Indonesia

  10. Event

    The Role of Employers’ Organizations in Matching Skills and Increasing Mobility Across the ASEAN Region: Employers’ Regional Workshop – ASEAN TRIANGLE Project

    To support national employers’ organizations in responding to issues related to skills and mobility, the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) organized a regional workshop in the framework of the ASEAN TRIANGLE project. Through presentations by regional and global experts and open discussion between ASEAN employers, the workshop aimed to increase businesses’ understanding of the implications of skilled labour mobility and to discuss challenges and good practices of employers in relation to migration in all skill categories.