“As the COVID-19 pandemic struck and retail stores shut down, many global brands responded by cancelling billions worth of orders, passing the financial burden of the disruption to the most …
Set up a mechanism for ensuring migrant workers wages, labour rights activists say
As a large number of migrant workers have become victims of wage theft in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, migrant rights activists and trade union representatives have demanded the …
Thai Appeal Court decision on Mitr Pohl paves the way for Asia’s first transboundary class action on human rights abuses
Today, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. The …
Addressing Forced Labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
“The forced labor of ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), as part of a broader pattern of severe human rights abuses, is a significant and …
Samoan chief in New Zealand sentenced to 11 years in jail for slavery but experts say he is just the tip of the iceberg
They were told they would leave Samoa — a small island nation in the South Pacific — for their larger neighbor, a country with about 25 times the population. Once …
Aux Maldives, la pandémie de Covid-19 aggrave le sort des travailleurs migrants
Aux Maldives, de nombreux travailleurs migrants n’ont pas reçu leurs salaires depuis près de six mois. Ce blocage a déclenché une importante vague de manifestations, dont la plus récente s’est …
Tesco to end contracts with migrant worker agencies
Tesco Malaysia has confirmed that it will terminate its contracts with employment agencies that supply foreign workers. “In order to adhere to new government policies on recruiting workers from outside …
The Compounding Impacts of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers in South East Asia
“Closed businesses, empty city streets, and airports have become global symbols of the COVID-19 pandemic. All of us have been directly or indirectly impacted through lockdown measures – movement and travel …
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Losing More Than Their Health – COVID-19 and Migrant Worker Wage Theft
“The fear of losing jobs is worrying everyone at the moment.” These are the words of Sharif Uddin, a Bangladeshi construction supervisor, who sends the bulk of his wages to his family in Bangladesh …