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International labour migration. A rights-based approach

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"This book offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of international labour migration and the ILO's efforts to protect migrant workers through a rights-based approach. It gives new insights into the factors that motivate people to seek work outside their country of origin and the significant development effects on both origin and destination countries. Exposing the often limited access of migrant workers to their fundamental rights at work, it describes in detail the international norms more...

Added by Zunia on April 05, 2010

Migrant worker remittances and their impact on local economic development

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"The international labour migration has become a common approach for many poor countries to alleviate unemployment and to work out from poverty. These countries are generally characterized by soaring unemployment, low economic development, and high population growth rate. Remittances and skills gained from working abroad are thought to be the crucial outcomes of migration, which will have profound impact on economic development and welfare of individual migrant family, community and the nation."

Added by Zunia on January 12, 2010

Towards a fair deal for migrant workers in the global economy

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"Migration has emerged as a central issue of our times. Each year millions of men and women leave their homes and cross national borders in search of greater human security for themselves and their families. Most are motivated by the desire for higher wages and better opportunities, but some are forced to leave their homes on account of famine and poverty, natural disasters and environmental degradation, and violent conflict or persecution. Most migration is between neighbouring countries, more...

Added by Zunia on November 18, 2009

Facing the global jobs crisis: Migrant workers, a population at risk

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"The global economic crisis is posing new challenges for the world's 100 million migrant workers. They may face reduced employment and migration opportunities, worsening living and working conditions and increasing xenophobia. Although no massive return of migrant workers has been observed so far, the crisis is having repercussions on their earnings and the remittances they send home. Ibrahim Awad, Director of the International Migration Programme at the International Labour Office, more...

Added by Zunia on November 18, 2009

Informal employment curbs trade benefits for developing countries

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"A joint study from the International Labour Organization and the WTO has found that high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries' ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition."

Added by Zunia on November 04, 2009

The migration of professionals in an integrating East Asia

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'This paper examines the trends in high-skilled migration within East Asia and from East Asian countries to outside the region, against the backdrop of increasing regional economic integration.'

Added by Zunia on April 19, 2009

Royal Thai Government Ministries Launch New Guidelines in Responding to Human Trafficking

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ILO Bangkok: The Royal Thai Government took an important step in June 2008 in adopting a set of Guidelines that will help the authorities better respond to cases of trafficking for labour exploitation in the Kingdom. The adoption of Operational Guidelines on Prevention, Suppression, Assistance and Protection of Trafficked Persons for Labour Purposes is the result of a joint initiative of the Ministry of Labour (MOL) and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS). The more...

Added by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on September 16, 2008

'The Mekong Challenge - Underpaid, Overworked and Overlooked: The realities of young migrant workers in Thailand'

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'The Mekong Challenge - Underpaid, Overworked and Overlooked: The realities of young migrant workers in Thailand' This in-depth bi-lingual report by the ILO and Mahidol University's Institute for Population and Social Research – believed the first of its kind in Thailand – has uncovered significant human rights violations of young migrant workers ranging from physical assault, forced labour, a denial of freedom of movement, children in hazardous work – definable as worst forms of child labour – more...

Added by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on September 16, 2008

Skilled Labour Migration from Developing Countries

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This is a country case study on the impart of highly skilled labor emigration – comprising both professionals and students – from India, and analysis of polices and policy options aimed at reducing the negative effects and consolidating the positive effects of the brain drain.

Added by Zunia on August 09, 2008

Issues in regulation and supervision of microinsurance

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The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and the Consultative Group for Assisting the Poor (CGAP) released a paper outlining several features of regulation and supervision of microinsurance and providing inputs for high level expert discussion among regulators, supervisors and other stakeholders involved in the provision of insurance services for lower income segments. The ILO Social Security Department and the STEP Programme advocate their vision of microinsurance as a more...

Added by Carmen Villegas Caballero on September 25, 2007

The Landscape of Microinsurance in the World's 100 Poorest Countries

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A paper on landscape study analysing more than 350 microinsurance products and over 100 social security schemes, developed by the MicroInsurance Centre. Microinsurance products and services were found to cover 78 million lives, in 77 of the world's 100 poorest countries. Certain trends became apparent in this research (significant presence of health microinsurance, limited regulation of microinsurance, a noticeable lack of microinsurance in North Africa and the Middle East, minuscule donor more...

Added by Carmen Villegas Caballero on September 25, 2007

Visions for Asia's Decent Work Decade - ILO report

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Asia's vast labor force, already estimated at some 1.8 billion workers, is expected to grow by more than 200 million by the year 2015, posing a series of environmental, economic and social challenges to the region's rapidly growing economies, according to a new report by the UN International Labor Organization (ILO). "One thing is clear: doing business as usual is not sustainable over the long term," ILO Director-General Juan Somavia said of the report, Visions for Asia’s Decent Work Decade: more...

Added by DR.PRABIR Dutta on August 16, 2007

ILO: Global employment trends for youth 2006

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The International Labour Organization has recently released a major publication focusing on global employment trends for youth in 2006. The publication is available in French, Spanish and English. According to the study, the world is facing a growing youth employment crisis. Both developing and developed economies are faced with the challenge of creating decent and sustainable jobs for the large cohort of young women and men entering the labour market every year. The issue features prominently more...

Added by Thomas BEKKERS on November 23, 2006

ILO youth employement Web section

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The ILO's Web site youth employment section delivers latest news and information about ILO's projects in this area and youth employment in general. You will find a news section, events and some relevant documentation and reports. From the introduction: "Within the international community, the ILO has a special role to play in promoting youth employment. With its expertise, tripartite constituency and global alliances, it can act as a catalyst in mobilizing support and implementing integrated more...

Added by Thomas BEKKERS on October 24, 2006

Asian decent work decade

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BUSAN, Republic of Korea (ILO News) - Worker, employer and government leaders concluded the 14th Asian Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) today by launching an "Asian Decent Work Decade" aimed at linking the goal of decent work with the global poverty reduction agenda. The delegates, representing Asian, Pacific and Arab ILO member States also committed to promoting "tangible" policy measures to better ensure that economic growth translates into productive more...

Added by Thomas BEKKERS on September 11, 2006

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