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Upholding Labor Standards For Agricultural Workers, More Urgent During COVID-19 Crisis – PANAP

PAN Asia Pacific, Press Release

PENANG, Malaysia – Regional advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) today urged governments to not just ensure that immediate financial relief are provided to agricultural workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but to respect and promote their rights based on already globally recognized and established labor standards.

“Upholding labor standards that guaranteeing […]

Labor Day 2019: Agricultural workers, among the most exploited and oppressed

Statement

The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) joins the rest of the working people around the world in observing the International Workers’ Day today. We raise our voices with them in demanding that the collective rights of workers in all sectors be recognized, respected and advanced.

Over a billion strong, agricultural workers comprise about a third […]

Wage Crisis of the Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka: Fair & Living Wage for the Plantation Workers

Background Information:

The Plantation People (Indian Origin Tamils) form a Minority community that consists of about  4.4% (2012) of the population in Sri Lanka and   at   present it is estimated as approximately 1.5 million. When in the 18th  century plantations were started in Sri Lanka, people from India and specially from Tamil Nadu were brought as […]

Statement on the massacre of 9 agri workers in Hacienda Nene, Philippines

Photo credit: KASAMA TK

Satement

The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) condemns the massacre of nine agricultural workers, including four women and two minors, allegedly by 40 armed goons on October 20 in Hacienda Nene, Sagay City, Negros Occidental, and calls on the Duterte government to immediately bring to justice the perpetrators of such heinous and inhumane […]

Agricultural Workers Demand Military to Keep Out of Sumifru Strike

The Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) today demanded that the military stay out of the ongoing strike of the 900 workers of Japanese conglomerate owned Sumifru Corporation Philippines in Compostela Valley.

According to John Milton “Butch” Lozande, secretary general of UMA, the striking workers of Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Suyapa Farm (NAMASUFA) went on strike […]

Migrant workers in the plantation sector expect and deserve no less

Following up on its statement on Women in Oil Palm, Tenaganita turns its attention to the situation of migrant workers in oil palm plantations.

The majority of workers (about 85%), in oil palm plantations in Malaysia are migrant workers from neighboring countries such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal , Cambodia ,India. In some plantations, there are also workers […]

Crackdown not in sync with ‘new Malaysia’, immigration told

PETALING JAYA: Activists have questioned immigration director-general Mustafar Ali after he defended the nationwide crackdown on undocumented workers despite criticism from rights groups.

Vocal migrant rights organisation Tenaganita said the main problem with the crackdown was the way the foreigners were arrested, depriving them of basic human rights.

Read more here: http://www.tenaganita.net/news-and-press-releases/news/crackdown-not-in-sync-with-new-malaysia-immigration-told/

Stop and think, govt warned of vicious cycle in crackdown against migrant workers

PETALING JAYA: Prominent migrants’ rights group Tenaganita has highlighted the need to understand the root causes of undocumented migrant workers in the country, saying the problem goes back to government agencies’ failure to strictly enforce laws including on human trafficking.

“Migrant workers enter the country with valid documents. But instead of getting themselves documented, they end […]

Agricultural Workers Condemn Duterte’s Intensifying War against Peasants

The Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) today decried the Duterte regime’s intensifying war against peasants including agricultural workers.

According to UMA Secretary General John Milton “Butch” Lozande, the military under the 8th IBPA illegally mass arrested additional 6 women farm workers on July 3, 2018 in Brgy. New Eden, Pangantucan, Bukidnon.

They were accused by […]

Bring to justice the killers of Filipino farm worker leader, end impunity

Joint statement
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI)

We strongly condemn the recent killing of another farm worker leader in the Philippines. On June 27, Julius Broce Barellano died of gunshot wounds. Mr. Barellano was the chairperson of Hacienda Medina Farm Workers Association in Negros island in central Philippines. He was also […]

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