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Op-ed
Migration in Southeast Asia should be an opportunity for workers, communities and economies – not traffickers
Op-ed by Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, the ILO’s Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific; Mohammad Narciri, the Regional Director of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok, Thailand; and Mr Jeremy Douglas, the...
Fair recruitment initiative
General principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment and definition of recruitment fees and related costs
This document brings together the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment (“principles and guidelines”) and the definition of recruitment fees and related costs.
Safe & Fair: Realizing Women Migrant Workers’ Rights and Opportunities in the ASEAN Region
As part of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, a joint EU, ILO and UN Women programme address women migrant workers’ vulnerabilities to violence, trafficking and labour exploitation.
Safe and fair migration
Establishing synergies and strategies to better protect women migrant workers
Together with relevant national stakeholders, the ILO and UN Women developed synergies and formulated strategies to better protect Indonesia women migrant workers from abuse and exploitation.
Safe and fair migration
Ending abuse and exploitation against women migrant workers
Almost half of the total number of migrant workers in the world today are women. Within the ASEAN region, there are around 10 million migrants, roughly half are women. Yet, they are still vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The ILO and UN Women...
Safe and Fair Migration
Opening address at the Consultative Workshop of the Safe and Fair Project in the Philippines
By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the Consultative Workshop of the Safe and Fair Project in the Philippines, Quezon City, 21 May 2018
Safe & Fair: Realizing Women Migrant Workers’ Rights and Opportunities in the ASEAN Region
As part of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, a joint EU, ILO and UN Women programme address women migrant workers’ vulnerabilities to violence, trafficking and labour exploitation.
Regional Planning Meeting for Promoting ASEAN Women Migrant Workers’ Rights through Organizing
National Project Advisory Committee for Indonesia - SAFE & FAIR: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN...
The National Project Advisory Committee (PAC) for Indonesia will provide technical and strategic guidance and governance to SAFE & FAIR at the country level and ensure that the project remains aligned with country priorities and national frameworks.
10th Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development
Multi-stakeholder Partnership in Facilitating Inclusive Economies and Protecting Rights of Migrant Workers
Discussions will address the critical role that Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs) play in delivering services to migrant workers in order to promote their rights and the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches in facilitating such services.
Labour migration
Regional training to strengthen labour migration and reintegration in Western Visayas
Local governments, Migrant Resource Centres (MRC) and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) helpdesks from six provinces in Western Visayas and partners in Iloilo City gather for an ILO training through its migration programmes to strengthen interagency...
Labour migration
Strengthening gender-responsive recruitment and reintegration and social protection for migrant workers in Western Visayas
The ILO BRIDGE Project and the Safe and Fair Programme with the Center for Migrant Advocacy and Migrants Coordinating Group (MCG) brought migrant workers and their families in Western Visayas to strengthen gender-responsive recruitment and...
Report launch
A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in...
Understanding the diversity of experiences requires recognition that migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE) also have other characteristics - such as ethnicity, gender, nationality - that shape their...
Online webinar
Labour Inspection in the Context of Domestic Work Sector
Organized by the joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme, this webinar aims to adopt a strengthened regional approach to meet the needs of women migrant workers and social partners, and better protection from violence and abuses. It will focus on...
Intersecting identities and experiences during labour migration: Perspectives of migrants with diverse sexual orientation, gender...
Organized by the joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme, this webinar aims to highlight challenges and opportunities labour migrants with diverse SOGIESC face in ASEAN region and ways of rights protection.
Workshop on data gaps in international labour migration statistics in Viet Nam
Commemoration of the 16th Days of Activism on Elimination Violence against Women
Journalism Exhibition and Multi-stakeholders Talk Show in Human Rights Festival 2021 “Moving Together in Diversity, Inclusivity, and...
The event is a side event of the Human Rights Festival, organized by the President’s Office, National Human Rights Commission, INFID and Semarang City Government.
Virtual Media Training and Fellowship: Strengthening Gender Lens and Ethical Journalism on Labour Migration and Violence against Women...
The training and fellowship programmes aim to enhance the gender-sensitive media coverage of the women migrant workers, fighting stereotypes, prejudice and bias against women migrant worker.
ILO and the Spotlight Initiative: Highlights and lessons learned from the world of work on eliminating gender-based violence and promoting...
To mark the anniversary of the adoption of ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206), this event will feature speakers from around the world who will highlight how the EU-funded Spotlight Initiative is...
Spotlight on Gender-sensitive Reporting in Journalism
The joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme, as part of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, will host a webinar to discuss and share good practices for responsible and ethical reporting of labour migration and gender-based violence and discrimination...