News and updates from TRIANGLE in ASEAN
TRIANGLE in ASEAN delivers technical assistance and support with the overall goal of maximizing the contribution of labour migration to equitable, inclusive and stable growth in ASEAN. See below a compilation of the latest programme news and updates.
4 December 2025
- New ILO report shows how Migrant Worker Resource Centres empower and protect migrant workers (04 December 2025)
- ASEAN employers validate policy positions on social security portability and skills mobility for migrant workers
- Migration and disability rights groups unite to tackle barriers in labour migration (21 October 2024)
- First-ever private employment agency association launched to improve recruitment practices in Lao PDR (28 June 2024)
- Essential contribution of Lao Migrant Workers recognized on International Migrants Day (18 January 2024)
- Call for Expressions of Interest: Final Independent Evaluation of the TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme (12 December 2023)
- Empowering Domestic Workers: The Inaugural Journey of the First Myanmar Domestic Worker Association (6 December 2023)
- ILO report reveals the challenges and precarity experienced by many Lao migrant workers (31 August 2023)
- Australian Ambassador to Lao PDR meets with Migrant Workers at the Migrant Worker Resource Centre in Pakse (26 June 2023)
- Op-ed: Skilled, essential but undervalued. It’s time to solve the domestic work paradox (16 June 2023)
- Study highlights forced labour amongst migrant domestic workers in Southeast Asia (15 June 2023)
- Report launch: Skilled to care, forced to work (15 June 2023)
- ILO welcomes ASEAN Declaration protecting migrant workers and families in crisis situations (22 May 2023)
- Australian Minister visits ILO Migrant Worker Resource Center (26 April 2023)
- Australian Ambassador to ASEAN meets migrant workers and support providers in Thailand (18 April 2023)
- ILO launches regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment for ASEAN regulators (9 March 2023)
- Op-Ed: Social security offers a win-win for migrant workers and ASEAN alike (18 December 2022)
- Australian Ambassador to ASEAN meets migrant workers and support providers in Cambodia (3 October 2022)
- Op-ed: It’s time to give domestic workers across Asia and the Pacific the rights they deserve (16 June 2022)
- Labour Act exclusion leads to low pay and challenging conditions for migrant workers in Thai agricultural sector (20 May 2022)
- Relief provided to 4,500 return migrant workers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (7 September 2021)
- 10 years on from the ILO Domestic Workers Convention: What has changed? (29 July 2021)
- Report launch: 10th anniversary of the adoption of the ILO’s Domestic Work Convention (No. 189); (16 June 2021)
- TRIANGLE in ASEAN helps migrant workers hit by COVID-1 (4 February 2021)
- 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (10-12 November 2020)
- Women Need More Choices in Migration (8 March 2020)
- OpED: An aging Asia increases the demand for domestic workers. But what about their rights? (16 June 2019)
- Save Smart Training of Trainers series launched in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar (7 June 2019)
- ILO welcomes Joint Statement of the ASEAN Trade Union Council and the ASEAN Confederation of Employers (5 April 2019)
- Seventh Migrant Worker Resource Centre opens in Myanmar (21 December 2018)
- ILO supports Cambodia’s new policy and guidelines for enhanced labour migration governance and access to justice (18 December 2018)
- ILO: Social protection coverage has improved in ASEAN, but migrant workers remain among the least protected (18 December 2018)
- ILO supports ASEAN safe migration campaign (13 December 2018)
- New digital service “SaverAsia” helps migrant workers save when sending money home (10 December 2018)
- ASEAN forum adopts recommendations on the use of digital technologies for a fair labour migration (2 November 2018)
- How digitalisation can help achieve fair migration (31 October 2018)
- New Migrant Worker Resource Centre opens in Lao PDR (9 August 2018)
- Labour rights: The means to tackle human trafficking (27 July 2018)
- Why we need to recognize migrant domestic workers’ contribution to our economies (16 June 2018)
- Revised Code of Conduct to promote ethical recruitment of migrant workers (24 April 2018)
- Myanmar: 66 more overseas employment agencies sign up to the Code of Conduct for fairer migration (22 March 2018)
- Malaysian and Vietnamese trade unions to collaborate on protecting migrant workers’ rights (20 February 2018)
- Fewer risks, higher rewards: The promise of better labour migration governance in ASEAN (13 February 2018)
- Labour rights and skills development key to improving outcomes of migration in South-East Asia, say ILO and IOM (15 December 2017)
- ASEAN leaders sign Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (14 November 2017)
- ILO welcomes ASEAN forum recommendations to ensure labour rights protection to domestic workers (02 November 2017)
- Realizing decent work for domestic workers: time to turn commitments into action (25 October 2017)
- ILO: Access to justice often out of reach for migrant workers in South-East Asia (16 July 2017)
- ILO: Restrictions on women’s labour migration can increase risk of exploitation, especially for migrant domestic workers (16 June 2017)
- Overworked and undervalued: New ILO studies find discrimination against women migrant workers in construction and domestic work in Thailand (13 December 2016)
- ILO to launch reports on experiences of women migrant workers in Thailand and Malaysia (06 December 2017)
- ILO welcomes Australian funding for migration project (18 December 2015)
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