ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

Date Shared:

Monday, September 24, 2018 - 16:31

Countries and areas:

Asia

2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:

Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers

GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:

Objective 6: Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work

Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration

Contributors:

Regional Consultative Processes and International Regional Fora

Chairmanship:

Germany-Morocco 2017-2018

Geographical Relevance:

Regional

Tags:

Regional Consultative Processes and International Regional Fora, Labor Mobility

Summary:

The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) is a regional tripartite platform to discuss issues faced by women and men migrant workers from and within ASEAN.

The annual AFML is an open platform for review, discussion and exchange of good practices and ideas between governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, and civil society stake-holders on key issues facing women and men migrant workers in South-East Asia and to develop recommendations to advance the implementation of the principles of the ASEAN Declaration on Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers .

The forum provides opportunity to share stakeholder activities to implement the various Recommendations from AFML meetings. Each year the AFML is hosted by the current chair of the ASEAN with support from the ASEAN Secretariat, and inputs from ILO, IOM, UN Women and the Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers .

Link:

For more information:

https://www.ilo.org/asia/WCMS_214213/lang--en/index.htm

GFMD Source:

GFMD 2018 - Background Paper RT Session 2.1 "South-South Mobility: Trends, Patterns and Transferable Learrning"