All publications: Singapore
Spotlight Initiative
The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in ASEAN
This brief draws from the findings of research titled "A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in South-East Asia", which aims to fill the gap in knowledge...
ILO working paper 67
Social dialogue in the Public Services in selected ASEAN Countries
A comparative overview of the laws, institutions and practices in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand
Policy brief
Skills development and lifelong learning in Singapore: Challenges for trade unions
This brief examines skills development and lifelong learning in Singapore. The approach takes a macroeconomic perspective of the main challenges and outcomes in terms of labour market performance.
Migrant workers
Home truths: Access to adequate housing for migrant workers in the ASEAN region
The report highlights migrant worker living standards in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia and the steps needed to ensure decent and adequate accommodation.
Migrant workers
Measuring labour migration in ASEAN: Analysis from the ILO’s International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database
This report presents the latest statistics on international labour migration in ASEAN.
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Recovery and labour migration in the post-pandemic future
Thematic background paper for the 14th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour
Social protection
Extending social health protection: Accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific
This regional report documents and analyses country experiences and lessons on the extension of social health protection coverage in the Asia and the Pacific region. It provides a detailed account of progress made, challenges encountered and...
Trade union manual
Organizing women migrant workers: Manual for trade unionists in ASEAN
This training manual was produced in collaboration between ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region, a joint programme of the International Labour...
Trade union manual
Organizing women migrant workers: Handout compendium
This handout compendium is meant to be used with the training manual "Organizing women migrant workers: Manual for trade unionists in ASEAN".
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Implementation of recommendations from the 3rd to 12th ASEAN Forums on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Progress review background paper for the 13th AFML
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Supporting migrant workers during the pandemic for a cohesive and responsive ASEAN Community
Thematic background paper for the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour
Policy brief
COVID-19 and the ASEAN labour market: Impact and policy response
This policy brief highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in the ASEAN region and looks at possible recovery scenarios. The brief shows estimates and projections of working-hour and employment losses, increased unemployment...
Labour migration
Experiences of ASEAN migrant workers during COVID-19: Rights at work, migration during the pandemic, and remigration plans (Second...
This study – conducted from mid-October to December 2020 – is a follow-up to the initial assessment undertaken in March and April 2020.
Green jobs in ASEAN
Regional study on green jobs policy readiness in ASEAN: Highlights
The ILO and ASEAN, with the leadership of Malaysia, worked together to conduct a study to assess policy readiness for promoting green jobs and a just transition across AMS. This document shares the highlights of the report, which includes country...
Green jobs in ASEAN
Regional study on green jobs policy readiness in ASEAN: Final report
The ILO and ASEAN, with the leadership of Malaysia, worked together to conduct a study to assess policy readiness for promoting green jobs and a just transition across AMS. In completing these assessments, the authors drew on responses to an...
Domestic work
Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Progress and prospects in Asia and the Pacific, ten years after the adoption of the...
In 2011, the international community adopted the ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), which recognized for the first time that domestic work is work and that domestic workers should enjoy the same labour protections as all other...
Labour migration
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.
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...
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...
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...