by Migra-Info | Feb 4, 2020 | Articles and Research, Labour Exploitation, Labour Rights
“The objectives of full employment and raising the standard of living around the world are as essential as ever”. With this statement, the International Labour Organization (ILO) summarizes the overall message of its World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2020...
by Migra-Info | Jan 8, 2020 | Articles, Articles and Research, Research
Informing about migration is no longer a simple task. Complex times bring complex migratory contexts. Stand-alone figures do not seem to be enough to account for the current trends and patterns, so a comprehensive analysis is needed in order to understand migration in...
by Migra-Info | Sep 24, 2019 | Advocacy, Articles and Research, Climate Change & Migration, Labour Rights, Research
A recent study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) found that climate change and the subsequent warming up of the planet is a cause for workers’ distress and a threat to many economies’ productivity. This phenomenon is called heat stress by which the body...
by Migra-Info | Jul 3, 2019 | Articles and Research, Fishing and Agrofood Industry, News & Events, Research, Uncategorized
In recent years, Environmental Justice Foundation’s reports, along with those by journalists and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), have repeatedly shown how overfishing and illegal fishing have substantially increased the risks of serious human rights...
by Migra-Info | Jul 3, 2019 | Articles and Research, Labour Rights, Remittances
The Governments of Thailand and Cambodia should increase cooperation to expand the scope of their MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) on labour migration, allowing also in the future the regularization of migrants who are already working in Thailand. This is one of the...
by Migra-Info | Jul 2, 2019 | Articles and Research, Climate Change & Migration, Research
In the occasion of the conference on environmental migration and the conflicts over the control of blue gold, GVC Italia presented the report “Hands on water”, prepared by GVC and the Master in Water Resource Management in the International Cooperation of Milano...
