Thailand

Migrant workers urge better social security cover

Fecha: 17/12/2012 - 08:56

Labour rights activists will take advantage of International Migrants Day tomorrow to lobby the government to improve social welfare benefits for migrant workers.

The social security system has been in place for more than 20 years and is "not primarily designed for migrant workers", Lae Dilokwitthayarat, an economics lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, said.

He said authorities need to amend legal procedures to allow migrants to gain access to welfare benefits, including healthcare, more easily.

"These workers help build the Thai economy.

Thailand Urged to Extend Migrant Worker Deadline

Fecha: 15/12/2012 - 08:12

The head of the U.N. International Labor Organization, Guy Ryder, is expected to urge Thailand to extend a Friday deadline for migrant workers to become documented or face deportation. Bangkok is threatening to deport more than a million migrant workers, most from Burma, who do not finish a process called nationality verification, which activists say is flawed.  The United Nations agency opposes mass deportation.

From our Eyes: Mekong migrants reflections

Fecha: 12/09/2012 - 09:04

New Publication from Mekong Migration Network! 15 migrants reflect on the last 12 years of migration policies in Thailand, plus views from NGOs and fact boxes on laws and regulations.

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Thailand: Don’t Deport Pregnant Migrant Workers

Fecha: 06/07/2012 - 09:19

Thailand’s government should scrap the labor minister’s proposed regulation to deport migrant workers who become pregnant, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposal discriminates against women workers and would not advance the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s stated aim of reducing human trafficking.

Cambodia: No recourse for enslaved migrant workers

Fecha: 28/06/2012 - 08:00

On most nights, Nara* was allowed to sleep no more than a few hours before he was forced to resume his gruelling routine of casting nets, sorting the catch and mending damaged nets, all while being watched by a captain eager to deliver a beating to any deckhand he thought was slacking. 

Suu Kyi wants better deal for migrants

Fecha: 01/06/2012 - 10:11

Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday voiced concerns over the costly process of nationality verification (NV) for Myanmar migrant workers. She also brought up the plight of one million non-registered migrants with senior officials.

Restricted Rights: Migrant women workers in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia

Fecha: 21/05/2012 - 14:38

Migrant workers have played a central part in the economic success story of many South-East Asian countries in recent years. As these countries have embraced the ‘outwards turn’ of export orientation, migrant workers have provided a regular source of cheap labour that has allowed their manufacturing industries to compete successfully on world markets. 

Forced Labour, Child Labour, Discrimination and Violations of Trade Union Rights All Common in Thailand

Fecha: 28/11/2011 - 12:27

A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Thailand, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of its trade policies, reveals serious violations of fundamental workers’ rights including a high degree of prevalence of forced labour.

Migrant Workers Struggling to Escape Thai Floods

Fecha: 03/11/2011 - 17:10

Migrant workers, largely from Burma, Cambodia and Laos, are still struggling to escape inundated areas of Thailand.   

There are no reliable estimates of how many people are stranded in the scores of flooded communities in Bangkok and areas north. Aid workers say that among the millions affected in Thailand, as many as 600,000 migrant workers, largely from Burma, are stranded in worsening conditions.

Thailand: Livelihoods at risk as more flooding expected

Fecha: 21/10/2011 - 08:20

The market in Ayutthaya where Arun Kaewan used to sell goods is now a river. The factory where her son used to work is a lake. 

"We'll start our new lives from nothing," Kaewan, a 43-year-old mother-of-six said from the Thammasat University gym outside Bangkok, one of a string of evacuation centres hastily provided by authorities in recent weeks. 

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