Workshop concludes with recommendations to support women migrants in Asia - 11 Dec 2003

United Nations, Jakarta – A two-day workshop on empowering women migrant workers ended in Jakarta with government and NGO participants agreeing on a set of recommendations to support and promote the rights of women migrants.

The workshop reviewed the difficult situation faced by women throughout the migration process, and discussed new options for linking policies and programme in both labour source and destination countries.

The workshop is part of UNIFEM’s regional programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia. The 2001-2004 programme has helped to create a new working contract for migrant women in Jordan; brokered a bilateral agreement between Jordan and Indonesia; reviewed a provincial law on migration in Blitar, Indonesia; and set up a savings and investment programme for returning migrants in the Philippines.

Read the Jakarta Recommendations

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