THE Philippines, with 8 million overseas workers, will intensify its campaign to ratify the United Nations treaty that protects the rights of migrant workers after Arab countries adopted the Manila Declaration at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting that seeks “to safeguard and protect” the rights of migrant workers against illegal acts, [...]
BEIRUT, Nov 21 (IPS) – October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers – over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.
The body of 20-year old Anget R. of Madagascar was found hanging from a rope at her employer’s bedroom door Nov. 11. [...]
On 16 September 2009, WIDE Austria, in cooperation with the Trade Union for Metal, Textiles and Nutrition, Women’s section (Bundesfrauenabsteilung der Gewerkschaft Metall-Textil-Nahrung, in short G-mtn frauen), arranged an evening around Women and Migration at the union’s comfortable fifth-floor lecture hall. The occasion for the evening event was the presentation of the latest issue of [...]
