Report/Press release
Abusive Labour Migration Policies Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers Day of General Discussion on Workplace Exploitation and Workplace Protection
- Date
2014
- Authors
Amnesty International, International Secretariat
- Abstract
This paper focuses on labour migration policies that increase migrant workers’ risk of suffering labour exploitation and other abuses at the hand of private actors such as recruitment agencies and employers. Amnesty International offers these observations to the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) as contribution to the Day of general discussion on workplace exploitation and workplace protection, which the Committee will hold on 7 April 2014.
- Links
- Economic sectors
General relevance - all sectors
- Content types
Systemic/state violation of right/freedom
- Target groups
(Im)migrants workers
- Geographical focuses
China, Italy, Qatar, and South Korea