The FAIRWAY project, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will establish a Policy Advisory Committee on Fair Migration the Middle East. The Committee will serve as a think tank and advisory forum to the ILO’s Regional Office for the Arab States, providing high quality advice on the ILO strategy to advocate for policy change on labour migration in the region.
During the first meeting, committee members will discuss key themes in promoting fair migration: including recruitment, working conditions under the kafala sponsorship system, collective action and representation of migrant workers, access to justice and dispute resolution, discrimination (institutional and social), issues relating to specific sectors in which migrant workers face abuse, including construction and domestic work, and the future of migrant work in the region.
The Policy Advisory Committee will meet biannually with the next meeting scheduled for April 2017.
