Mercy Global Concern - 2007
 Special Report Number 2: January 2007
Good Practices To Protect Women Migrant Workers
This UNIFEM publication is the result of the High-Level Government Meeting on Good Practices to Protect Women Migrant Workers held in Bangkok, December 2005. The report explores the successes and challenges in protecting migrant domestic workers in terms of management, regulation and laws. It shows the development of country-specific good practices in various countries of employment, namely Bahrain, Brunei, Jordan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Finally, Senior Government Officials present at the meeting agreed to a set of recommendations regarding migration management, welfare and support services and coordination.
Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia, A Briefing Kit
This kit developed by UNIFEM is informed by the experience of struggle, resilience and creative practice of women migrant workers and their support groups. It enhances an understanding of how prevention of discrimination and abuse of women migrant workers should be addressed as issues of ensuring gender equality and basic human rights; promoting sustainable development and good governance. Finally it reinforces commitment to collaborative action between government and civil society stakeholders within and across countries and regions, in ways that meaningfully protect and empower women migrant workers.
Human Rights Protection Applicable to Women Migrant Workers, A UNIFEM Briefing Paper
This briefing paper is intended to provide tools for human rights advocates working to advance the rights of women migrant workers. It examines a set of concerns facing women migrant workers – with an emphasis on women in domestic service. It further demonstrates how the five most relevant major human rights instruments – the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families (MWC), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) –can be applied.
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UNIFEM-CEDAW Panel on Addressing Women Migrant Workers' Concerns
This publication is a report of the UNIFEM-CEDAW Panel on Addressing Women Migrant Workers' Concerns, held during the CEDAW session in New York, June 2003. The report highlights the explicit and disproportionate rights violations of women migrant workers in relation to men at all stages of the migration process; and how the rights of women migrant workers can be more effectively addressed through the CEDAW process in both countries of origin and employment.
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Promoting Gender Equality to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children
This publication is a product of the seminar on "Promoting Gender Equality to Combat Trafficking in Women and Girls", co-organized by The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden and UNIFEM in co-operation with UNESCAP, 7-9 October 2002. It highlights key trends in trafficking; briefly reviews current initiatives to address the same; maps out the salient elements of a gender sensitive rights-based development perspective on the issue; fore-grounds key gender concerns throughout the trafficking process and suggests strategic interventions, essentially preventive strategies –economic empowerment; social protection and security; education; legislation; safe migration and transformation of attitudes and behaviour - to address the issue.
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Claim and Celebrate Women Migrants' Human Rights through CEDAW, The Case of Women Migrant Workers, A UNIFEM Briefing Paper
This publication takes women's migration for work as an illustration to demonstrate how CEDAW's methodological framework – in fact the entire Convention – can be effectively used to address the long term and be significantly strengthened through the adoption of a *General Recommendation* on migrati**on.
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Good Practices To Protect Women Migrant Workers
This UNIFEM publication is the result of the High-Level Government Meeting on Good Practices to Protect Women Migrant Workers held in Bangkok, December 2005. The report explores the successes and challenges in protecting migrant domestic workers in terms of management, regulation and laws. It shows the development of country-specific good practices in various countries of employment, namely Bahrain, Brunei, Jordan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Finally, Senior Government Officials present at the meeting agreed to a set of recommendations regarding migration management, welfare and support services and coordination.
Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia, A Briefing Kit
This kit developed by UNIFEM is informed by the experience of struggle, resilience and creative practice of women migrant workers and their support groups. It enhances an understanding of how prevention of discrimination and abuse of women migrant workers should be addressed as issues of ensuring gender equality and basic human rights; promoting sustainable development and good governance. Finally it reinforces commitment to collaborative action between government and civil society stakeholders within and across countries and regions, in ways that meaningfully protect and empower women migrant workers.
Human Rights Protection Applicable to Women Migrant Workers, A UNIFEM Briefing Paper
This briefing paper is intended to provide tools for human rights advocates working to advance the rights of women migrant workers. It examines a set of concerns facing women migrant workers – with an emphasis on women in domestic service. It further demonstrates how the five most relevant major human rights instruments – the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families (MWC), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) –can be applied.
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UNIFEM-CEDAW Panel on Addressing Women Migrant Workers'Concerns
This publication is a report of the UNIFEM-CEDAW Panel on Addressing Women Migrant Workers' Concerns, held during the CEDAW session in New York, June 2003. The report highlights the explicit and disproportionate rights violations of women migrant workers in relation to men at all stages of the migration process; and how the rights of women migrant workers can be more effectively addressed through the CEDAW process in both countries of origin and employment.
Download entire publication
Promoting Gender Equality to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children
This publication is a product of the seminar on "Promoting Gender Equality to Combat Trafficking in Women and Girls", co-organized by The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden and UNIFEM in co-operation with UNESCAP, 7-9 October 2002. It highlights key trends in trafficking; briefly reviews current initiatives to address the same; maps out the salient elements of a gender sensitive rights-based development perspective on the issue; fore-grounds key gender concerns throughout the trafficking process and suggests strategic interventions, essentially preventive strategies –economic empowerment; social protection and security; education; legislation; safe migration and transformation of attitudes and behaviour - to address the issue.
Download entire publication
Claim and Celebrate Women Migrants' Human Rights through CEDAW, The Case of Women Migrant Workers, A UNIFEM Briefing Paper
This publication takes women's migration for work as an illustration to demonstrate how CEDAW's methodological framework – in fact the entire Convention – can be effectively used to address the long term and immediate concerns of women migrants, at all stages of the migration process, even in the absence of a specific Article on migration. It further shows how CEDAW's existing potential to address migration can be significantly strengthened through the adoption of a *General Recommendation* on migration.
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