All events: migrant workers + international migration + irregular migration + migration policy + return migration + labour migration + refugees

National Stakeholder Workshop on Protecting Indonesian Migrant Workers and Their Families against Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS...

Migrant workers, particularly women migrant workers, are disproportionately at risk of becoming infected by HIV. This is evident through the increased number of HIV cases recorded among migrant workers. The Association of Hospital and Medical Center...

Rights-Based Training on Improving the Migrant Workers Prevention and HIV-Health Treatment Access

HIV/AIDS case in Indonesia is growing fast. The Ministry of Health reported the cumulative AIDS case up to Dec 2010 is 24.131 cases. Indonesia classified as a low concentrated epidemic country, focusing the intervention to the key populations (sex...

A Series of Training of Trainers - Budget Smart: Financial Education for Migration-Affected Youth

The series of training of trainers aim to educate prospective migrant workers on how to plan the migration, determine their migration goals, access financial services, as well as invest the earned remittances productively.

Community-Based Training for Local/Religious Leader on HIV and Migration

The training is aimed to improve the awareness and knowledge on HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities in migration cycle for local communities/religious leaders and to reduce stigma and discrimination for migrant workers who living with HIV.

Gender and Migration: Care Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development

A special event by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV)

Training of Trainers on HIV/AIDS and Migrant Workers at National level

HIV/AIDS case in Indonesia is growing fast. The Ministry of Health reported the cumulative AIDS case up to Dec 2010 is 24.131 cases. Even though there is no comprehensive reported data available on HIV and AIDS cases among migrant workers, HIV and...

Stakeholder Workshop on Improving the Prevention and Health Treatment Access for Indonesian Prospective/Migrant Workers

HIV and AIDS case findings in Indonesian migrant workers are increasing. The Ministry of Health reported in December 2010 that the AIDS cases have reached 24.131 cases. Meanwhile, a report from Caring for Migrant Workers, an NGO dealing with the...

Task force for migrants

Ilocos Sur to Set Up Task Force for Migrants

Ilocos Sur Vice Governor Deogracias Victor Savellano expressed his support to setup a provincial task force that will deal with issues affecting migrant workers in the province. The task force will essentially provide assistance on return and...

Returned migrant workers

Building Peer Support for Return Migrants

Former women migrants from the provinces of La Union, Nueva Ecija, Ilocos Sur and the National Capital Region attended a seminar-workshop recently in a purposive move to help themselves overcome negative migration experiences and hasten the...

Workshop on Financial Education for Migrant Workers and Their Families

Realizing to the poor understanding of migrant workers towards financial services and accesses, ILO is developing a financial education programme for migrant workers and their families, aimed to provide direct assistance on financial services and...

Good practices to protect migrants

Forum Highlights Good Practices to Protect Migrants

Community-level mechanisms to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers in the Philippines and Thailand were showcased in a roundtable discussion (RTD) at the ILO Auditorium on 11 January 2012. Chaired by POEA Administrator Hans Cacdac, the...

Regional Workshop on the Role of Trade Unions in Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers in Arab Countries

The majority of domestic workers in Arab countries are migrant women from Asian and African countries. They largely live within the households that receive their services,under sponsorship arrangements. Excluded from labour and social security laws...

A Series of Step-down Workshops on Financial Education for Migrant Workers and Their Families

Realizing to the poor understanding of migrant workers towards financial services and accesses, ILO Jakarta through its Combating Forced Labour and Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers Project is developing a financial education programme for...

Regional Conference towards a Domestic Workers’ Convention

With the recent release of the ILO Third Report on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, or more commonly referred to as the Brown Report, much debate has erupted about the proposed Convention and supplementary Recommendation concerning Decent Work for...

ILO/ACTRAV/Solidarity Centre Workshop on Promoting a Right-Based Approach to Labour Migration in Origin and Destination Countries

As part of our programme on promoting a rights-based approach to labour migration and encourage trade union cooperation on this subject, I am pleased to inform you that our colleagues from the trade union movement in Kuwait, KTUF – Kuwait Trade...

ILO/Japan - MOL National Seminar on Agenda for Labour Migration Policy in Thailand

Jointly organized by ILO/Japan Project on Managing Cross-border Movement of Labour in Southeast Asia and Ministry of Labour, Thailand. The seminar is aimed to inform policy makers, planners and practitioners on: 1) The long-term labour migration...

Protection of Indonesian Domestic Workers: Awareness Raising at National and Local Level

The campaign is aimed to educate and to raise awarenes of migrant workers communities about the protection of the rights of domestic workers, including ensuring the specific protection and needs of female domestic workers, and about the current...

A Series of Specialized Broadcast Events on Migrant Workers

These events aim to raise the public awareness on the protection of Indonesian migrant workers.

The Commemoration of International Migrants Day 2009

International Migrants Day 2009 marks a collaborative effort by the main national stakeholders and the ILO to promote basic human rights and labour protection of migrant workers. The public dialogue aims to foster greater understanding of the human...

ILO/Japan/HRDF Seminar on Managing and Understanding Labour Migration through Social Dialogue at the Provincial Level

Jointly organized by ILO/Japan Project on Managing Cross-border Movement of Labour in Southeast Asia and Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF). The goal of this provincial social dialogue is the promotion and support of migrant worker...