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Migrant Women Robbed Off Rights |
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KUALA LUMPUR 8 March, 2010: 100 years after the world recognized the role of women in society, women are still robbed off their rights.
On the occasion of the 100th year anniversary of International Women's Day, CARAM Asia calls upon governments in both sending and receiving countries to protect the rights of migrant women who constitute more than half of the migrant population in the world today. CARAM Asia also urges States to invest in the health -including sexual, reproductive and HIV programmes and services - and education of women to ensure that migration becomes a choice rather than a necessity for survival. |
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Address Suffering before Suicide Occurs |
February- 2010 The shocking cases of suicides committed by migrant workers in Bahrain reported since the beginning of 2010 are the continuation of a trend that should have been addressed years ago. The BCHR and CARAM Asia condemns the failure of authorities and Bahraini civil society to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers, which in previous cases has been shown to lead to acts of desperation such as suicide. |
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Abused ex-maid claims Damages for Pain and Humiliation |
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By M. MAGESWARI KUALA LUMPUR, 29 Jan 2010:Abused Indonesian maid Nirmala Bonat is suing her former employer for damages, claiming she suffered pain, humiliation and physical and mental anguish while working for the 42-year-old former boutique manager. |
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CARAM Asia Announces Day off for Migrant Domestic Workers |
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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; |
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CARAM Asia Attends COP15 Process to Warn of Impact on Mobile Populations |
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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.
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