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• AIDS has a new name in Nepal: Mumbaiya

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Sudeshna SarkarKathmandu, Dec 1 (IANS) When Equal Access, an NGO, started a radio programme for Nepalis and Nepali migrants working in India, it broadcast the heart-breaking story of a teen from eastern Nepal.The 13-year-old’s father sold her to two men who in turn dumped her at a brothel in India’s film and ...
  2 days ago

• Migrant workers fill labour supply gaps: Vayalar Ravi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Panaji, Dec 1 (IANS) Governments adopting protectionist immigration policies only end up deepening the negative impact of the economic crisis, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said Tuesday, saying migrant workers from countries like India fill labour supply gaps that cannot be met by the local ...
  3 days ago

• A Construction Migrant Worker’s Notes

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 633
  ChinaHush translates a blog post by a migrant worker currently building luxury homes in Sanya , Hainan: I used to have very low self-esteem, just because I am a migrant worker working at construction sites every day. Maybe it’s because I went to junior college for two years, our manger Yang made me the ...
  4 days ago

• Dubai debt woes a concern for Kerala, says State Finance Minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Kochi, Nov 28 (ANI): In the wake of crisis in the Dubai World conglomerate, Thomas Isaac, the State Finance Minister said that Kerela would be the worst hit if construction activities in Dubai are affected. Dubai World shocked the global financial world on Thursday, when it announced that it would need to restructure ...
  6 days ago

• Abusive Saudi Employer Keeps his Filipino Driver in Jail

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 515
  We have received alarming news about a Filipino man who is currently jailed in Saudi Arabia after suffering months of abuse from his employer while working without pay. The man’s employer is not making any attempts to help his worker, trying to extort money from him. The man, R. M. (full name withheld for his ...
  6 days ago

• paris undocumented workers on strike: so where next?

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  from Où va la CGT : see here for an interview with migrant worker reps and report on the occupation of the Pompidou centre’s restaurant A month on strike for 5,000 undocumented workers in the Paris region: a month of mobilising people, strikes, pickets in the cold and in the rain. Their determination is ...
  1 week ago

• latin american workers in unite: from heroes to pariahs

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  In September 2009 Unite the union ordered the Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS) without notice to vacate the office which it had provided the Association with in its southeast region HQ in Manor House, thus ending a five year partnership. This followed an organised campaign by officials againt LAWAS, because ...
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• Neglect and Discrimination of China’s Migrant Children

  
  China Hope Live — Authority: 124
  China is literally being built by the millions of “migrant workers” who have left their rural villages and rural workload for a semi-legal existence as unskilled labourers in the cities. They are the ones filling the factories and raising the office buildings. Their children not only face routine prejudice from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beijing’s Poor Visit Illegal Clinics

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 633
  The BBC reports on illegal medical clinics set up on the outskirts of Beijing set up to serve migrant workers and the poor: The clinic we visited, in the village of Jinzhan, had been open only for 10 days, according to the man in charge, who declined to give his name. After initially admitting that he treated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book weatherman for failing to give storm warning: Goa BJP

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Panaji, Nov 17 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded that the top weather department official in Goa be booked for murder for not issuing timely warnings to fishermen, 68 of whom lost their lives due to Cyclone Phyan.They demanded the immediate removal of Goa station in-charge of the Indian ...
  2 weeks ago

• cleaners are not objects to be bought and sold!

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  Join the protest 12 noon, Weds 18 November, Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6NU The cleaning contract on London Underground’s Bakerloo, Victoria and Central Lines is set to be renegotiated and a new company is expected to grab it. It is likely to demand new (and worse) conditions and will trawl ...
  2 weeks ago

• 23 killed in China landslide

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Zhongyang (China), Nov 17 (Xinhua) At least 23 people were killed in a massive landslide in north China’s Shanxi province, rescuers said Tuesday.Rescuers had retrieved 12 bodies Monday, and found another 11 bodies by early Tuesday.The landslide, covering an area of about 20,000 square meters, swept over five houses ...
  2 weeks ago

• domestic workers in Lebanon

  
  B-side Beirut — Authority: 400
  More than one female migrant worker dies in Lebanon each week, most of them are either pushed to suicide by abuse and confinement or fall from great heights while attempting to escape these conditions. October alone claimed the lives of eight, according to HRW . The problem has attracted enough attention from NGOs ...
  2 weeks ago

• tribute to ernesto leal… and more attacks on latino workers by unite bureaucrats

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  collaboratively produced by members of the Latin American Workers’ Association ( leerlo en castellano ) October was a sad month for Latin American workers residing in London, for two reasons. First came the death of Ernesto Leal, a Chilean committed to the cause of migrant workers, who was a founding member of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The refugees of boom-and-bust

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 542
  At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.Related Posts Singapore’s economic boom widens income gap Related Posts ...
  3 weeks ago

• no borders newsletter ‘movement’ issue 1

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  The first issue of ‘Movement’, a monthly newsletter covering the latest updates from the No Borders Network and beyond has been published. We are re-launching the No Borders Newsletter in an attempt to create a more regular and broad based publication. Click image below for PDF. The issue features ...
  3 weeks ago

• Before... And... After

  
  LIANAIN FILMS — Authority: 395
  Remember that hovel in District 9 ? For months, dozens of Chinese migrant workers lived in filth in the middle of Singapores poshest neighbourhood. And then, one very brave man decided to say something. His little video triggered outrage on the internet. It even led to a petition for better living conditions for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 506
  Ive blogged before on the situation of migrant domestic workers -- largely composed of females and ethnic minorities, without permanent legal status and working in the "private" sphere, this group of laborers is uniquely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All ...
  3 weeks ago

• Swine flu menace looms large over Nepal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Kathmandu, Nov 6 (IANS) Though not yet having lost a patient to swine flu, Nepal Friday sounded an alarm after the discovery that the epidemic could be spreading in two districts in the west where school children and security personnel tested positive for the disease.Schools were closed in Parbat and its neighbouring ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Migrant-Rights Design

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 515
  We are happy to share with you the new redesign of one of our projects, Migrant-Rights.org . Migrant-Rights was created to raise awareness about the common abuse of migrant workers in the region. We worked hard on this design, trying to make the site more welcoming and increase its functionality. We hope you like it! ...
  4 weeks ago

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