KUALA LUMPUR, 21 Jan 2010: Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM) Asia is proud to announce that it is now launching two videos to enhance our ongoing online advertisement campaign for employers to sign petitions to give a weekly paid day off for migrant domestic workers.

 

The two videos will be blasted out in cyberspace through personal emails to individuals with links to the online petition created one month ago since the online advertisement campaign was launched in five different media outlets in Asia.

 

These include Al Jazeera, Malaysiakini, The Standard, Prachatai and Online Citizen. These videos can be accessed at;

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96J8t5fX6-U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFQwyqHozE

COPENHAGEN, 7th-13th Dec, 2009:   In the second half of 2009, an extensive research project was launched by the Information and Communications Officer (ICO), investigating the linkages between climate change and the impact on migrants and mobile populations.

Following a serious of presentations to the secretariat, Board of Directors (BoD) and members, and the completion of a detailed paper, it was decided that the ICO would attend COP15 and sideline NGO events namely, the Peoples’ Assembly on Climate Change. Due to the research conducted, CARAM Asia was invited to attend and act as a speaker during one of the sessions at the People’s Assembly in order to address some of its research findings and to provide a summarisation of the link between migrants and refugees and the way we should aim towards in the future.

KUALA LUMPUR 18 Dec, 2009: As today marks a day where the international community seeks to recognise the contribution of migrant workers, Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM Asia) calls on all governments to mark this occasion by immediately signing and ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW, 1990). CARAM Asia notes with concern that despite the convention going into its 20th year, not a single developed nation or those that rely on the use of foreign labour have sought to ratify this crucial piece of legislation and this leaves migrants without basic employment rights or protection mechanisms.

14 December 2009, Geneva - A global campaign to challenge countries to end abuse of migrants by protecting their human rights will be launched around the world on 18 December.
Events in Brussels, Cairo, Geneva, Kuala Lampur, Nairobi, New York and Paris will kick off activities on all continents to mark the 20th anniversary year of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW) in 1990.