Form guidelines to ensure rights of migrant workers
SAMReN urges Saarc
South Asian Migration Resource Network (SAMReN) yesterday urged South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) to formulate guidelines to protect rights of South Asian migrant workers and for their welfare.
Saarc could be an appropriate forum to set a common guideline to overcome the challenges of migrant workers they are facing, they said.
They told a press conference organised by SAMReN, an organisation of South Asian migration researchers, at a city hotel. Prof Ravi Srivastava of Indian Jawaharlal University; Dr Jagannath Adhikari of Nepal Institute of Development Studies; Dr Rajith Lakshman of University of Colombo; LK Ruhunage of Sri Lanka Bureau for Foreign Labour Employment; and Dr CR Abrar, executive director of Refugee and Migration Movements Research Unit of Bangladesh; were present.
Dr Abrar placed some recommendations for the guidelines including declaration of minimum standard for migrant workers; abolition of sponsor system; formulation of a standard database of workers; investment in the migration sector; ratification of 1990 UN Convention on migrant workers; developing partnership between sending and receiving countries and keeping gender sensitivity in mind.
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