Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Women migrant workers face the risk of violence and trafficking, discrimination and insecurity while accessing fair and sustainable employment, and supportive services. Experts agreed on these points during a conference to launch the project "Safety and Justice: The Rights and Opportunities of Female Migrant Workers in the ASEAN Region in the period of 2018-20," held on Thursday in Hà Nội by the United Nations Office on Gender Equality and Empowerment (UN Women), in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Women migrant workers will have positive experiences and contribute sufficiently when their safety, labour rights and human rights are adequately protected, they noted. Chang-Hee Lee, director of ILO, said in ASEAN, more women were migrating. International labour migration has increased in the past few decades to some 10 million people, nearly half the movement being driven by women. Migration of female … [Read more...] about Experts discuss safe work conditions for female migrants
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Lesbos: Europe’s migrant barrier nears breaking point
Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press Updated 5:14 am, Friday, May 11, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-10', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 10', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-15', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 15', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-20', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery … [Read more...] about Lesbos: Europe’s migrant barrier nears breaking point
Migrants stranded in Med by diplomatic standoff arrive in Italy
People onboard the Aquarius rescue boat that docked in Italy on Thursday. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP More than 100 migrants who were stranded in the central Mediterranean for three days during a diplomatic standoff between Rome and London after their rescue off the coast of Libya arrived in Italy on Thursday. Rome decided this week to allow 105 people to land in Italy following a back-and-forth with British authorities over who should take them. Nearly 700,000 people have landed on Italian shores since 2013. One of the group to arrive at Sicilian city Catania on Thursday, which included six women, 32 teenagers and six children, was Vitoria, a 21-year-old Nigerian who told AFP that she had been in Libya for just over a year before setting off over the weekend. She said that she had spent nearly six months in dreadful conditions in a Libyan prison after a failed first crossing last year. The country's notorious detention centres have been blasted by human rights groups and the … [Read more...] about Migrants stranded in Med by diplomatic standoff arrive in Italy
Lagerfeld may drop German citizenship over migrant welcome
"Did she really need to say it was necessary to welcome one million migrants at a time when France, which casts itself as the land of human rights, pledged to take in 30,000?" Lagerfeld said in an interview with French weekly Le Point published Thursday. Again dismissing Merkel as a "pastor's daughter who can't accept the evil that Germany carried out after 1933," the designer accused her of fostering the emergence of the far-right Alternative for Germany party. "The AfD didn't exist, yet with one sentence she made it exist by alienating two million voters and sending 100 of these neo-Nazis into parliament," he said, referring to the 92 AfD lawmakers who obtained seats in the Bundestag in last September's election. "If this keeps up, I'll abandon German citizenship," Lagerfeld said, without indicating what he might trade it for, though he has gushed previously that "a new day is dawning in France" with the arrival of President Emmanuel Macron. "I like Macron personally, and (his … [Read more...] about Lagerfeld may drop German citizenship over migrant welcome
Aid group: Migrants ‘prefer to die’ than return to Libya
Updated 6:21 am, Thursday, May 10, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Felipe Dana, AP Image 1of/5 CaptionClose Image 1 of 5 Refugees and migrants are transferred to the SOS Mediterranee Aquarius rescue ship a day after being rescued by members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after they tried to leave Libya and reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat, Monday, May 7, 2018. Italy's coast guard said Monday it had granted authorization for 105 migrants rescued at sea by a Spanish aid group to transfer to a sturdier boat after more than a daylong bureaucratic tussle left them exposed to the elements on the Mediterranean Sea. less Refugees and migrants are … [Read more...] about Aid group: Migrants ‘prefer to die’ than return to Libya