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Reported migrant worker abuse cases surged globally by 37% in early 2025, reaching 445 documented incidents from January to June, up from 324 the prior year, per Business & Human Rights Resource Centre data. The
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Migrant workers keep key sectors running—from construction and agriculture to caregiving, logistics, and hospitality—yet many remain exposed to unsafe work, wage theft, and weak legal protections. Rights groups and labor economists note that while migrant
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Canada has announced new immigration levels that aim at inviting skilled labour to boost economic development as well as alleviating labour emulsions in major sectors. The new strategy is to enhance the talent pool of
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Migration is said to be a decision to have better wages, security or possibilities. It is also a survival tactic among many women, freeing them out of debt, unemployment, weather pressures, or even violence. However,
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Women migrants in domestic work are essential to care economies worldwide, yet they remain among the least protected and least recognised workers. From childcare and eldercare to cleaning and cooking, migrant domestic workers enable millions
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The new structure of overseas migration in India is being marketed as a digital upgrade that will simplify the clearance procedure, monitor workers, and enhance the safety of people seeking employment in other nations. But
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For many future migrants, social media has become the first—and sometimes only—place to get real advice about migration. While recruiters promise high salaries and easy jobs abroad, TikTok and YouTube are filled with testimonies from
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Women migrant workers are increasingly stepping into leadership roles in Indonesia’s labour migration landscape. Through gender-responsive advocacy and fair recruitment initiatives, they are challenging discrimination, unsafe working conditions, and exploitative middlemen. Civil society organizations, unions,
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The abuse of migrant workers is getting monitored in a more systematic manner in 2025 and the results are very alarming. A new dataset of 665 documented cases shows that exploitation is not random or
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In many parts of the world, migrant workers face harsh conditions that raise a disturbing question: are they modern-day slaves? Passport confiscation and wage theft are two of the most common and abusive practices affecting
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