Negotiations on the draft of the ASEAN Framework Instrument on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers are in deadlock, with Malaysia refusing to agree on key points. [ More... ]
Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers (TF-AMW) make the following recommendations at the 2nd ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (July 30-31), Bangkok, for consideration and further deliberation by the ACMW during the Chiang Rai Meeeting, 29-31 September 2009. [ More... ]
Statement of the Establishment of the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers [ More... ]
ASEAN Human Rights Commissions"s agreed to prioritize the handling of migrant workers' human rights violations. The declaration would be submitted to a high-level task force as input in the formulation of an ASEAN Human Rights Charter.
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The ASEAN Secretariat and the International Labour Office signed a Cooperation Agreement on 20 March 2007. The Agreement will serve as a platform to strengthen the collaboration and partnership between the two organisations through the exchange of information, research studies as well as participation at working-level meetings. Common interest areas include social security and labour migration.
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All ASEAN member countries signed the declaration, that calls for the protection of millions of migrant workers in the region. ASEAN governments declare to ensure decent working conditions, protection from all forms of abuse and a guaranteed wage to migrant workers from the region. But the ASEAN Declaration will face several problems in implementation.
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The Vientiane Action Programme (VAP), under the goal of promoting human rights, includes a programme area dedicated to the “elaboration of an instrument for the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers”. The commitment of ASEAN member States to such an instrument was recently re-affirmed at Cebu with the ASEAN Declaration on the protection and promotion of the rights of Migrant Workers. [ More... ]
