All publications: Singapore
Synthesis report: Skills shortages and labour migration in the field of information and communication technology in Canada, China, Germany,...
Labour mobility between Asia and the Arab States: Sharing of experiences and progress under the Bali Declaration with specific focus on...
Background paper presented at the inter-regional meeting "Labour mobility between Asia and the Arab States: Sharing of experiences and progress under the Bali Declaration with specific focus on women migrant workers" held on 3-4 December 2019 in...
ILO/UN Women
COVID-19 and women migrant workers in ASEAN
This brief explores the multi-dimensional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women migrant workers in and from the ASEAN region. While women migrant workers in the ASEAN region strive to protect their livelihoods and their health, COVID-19 has...
Migration
Experiences of ASEAN migrant workers during COVID-19: Rights at work, migration and quarantine during the pandemic, and re-migration plans
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting labour migration throughout the ASEAN region and globally. In 2019 there were an estimated 10 million international migrants in ASEAN, of whom nearly 50 per cent were women. The ILO undertook a rapid assessment...
TRIANGLE in ASEAN Internal Forward Looking Evaluation summary
TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Effective return and reintegration of migrant workers with special focus on ASEAN Member States
This report was prepared as the background document for the ASEAN Workshop on Reintegration Programmes for Returning Migrant Workers (27–28 August 2019) in Yogyakarta, organized by the Ministry of Manpower, Government of Indonesia, and the ILO...
ESSA Project
Extension of social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region
The report outlines recent trends in informal employment, challenges and opportunities for extending social protection, by different categories of workers and countries. It also documents relevant country experiences and lessons, and proposes...
ESSA Project
How to extend social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region
This policy brief is based on the findings and recommendations of the report, Expansion of Social Protection to Workers in Informal Employment, from the International Labour Organization. The report outlines recent trends in informal employment as...
Labour migration
The future of work and migration
Thematic background paper for the 12th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Women migrant workers
Public attitudes towards migrant workers in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
Public support for migrant workers remains limited in key destination countries in ASEAN, reveals a joint ILO/UN Women report warning against discriminatory attitudes and practices against migrant workers.
Women migrant workers
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...
Fact sheet
Employment and environmental sustainability in ASEAN
The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact sheet for ASEAN is part of a series providing a baseline for key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance in 36 countries across Asia and the Pacific. These indicators...
Fact sheet
Employment and environmental sustainability in Singapore
The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact Sheets series provides key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance. They include: (i) employment in environmental sectors; (ii) skill levels; (iii) vulnerability of...
Women migrant workers
Changing Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Women Migrant Workers in ASEAN: Technical Regional Meeting
This report sets out key areas of learning from the meeting, analyses why communication can be an effective tool for changing attitudes and behaviours, and explores some tools and approaches used to enhance communication for behavioural change.
Women migrant workers
Regional Planning Meeting for Promoting ASEAN Women Migrant Workers’ Rights through Organizing
The report centres women migrant workers' freedom of association and collective bargaining, identifies the challenges to their organizing, and puts forward recommendations to strengthen women migrant workers' leadership and participation in labour...
Singapore - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration (2000-2018)
Migrant workers
Implementation of recommendations from the 3rd to 10th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Progress review background paper for the 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Digitalization to promote decent work for migrant workers in ASEAN
Thematic background paper for the 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)
Singapore - Country baseline under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2018)
TRIANGLE in ASEAN: Independent Mid-Term Evaluation Summary