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Asia Monitor Resource Centre
The Asia
Monitor Resource Centre is an independent
Non-Government organisation which focuses on
Asian Labor Concerns. Founded in 1976, the
organisation has been leading the way in
promoting workers rights and democratic labour
movements in Asia and the Pacific for over 25
years.
International Labor
Organisation
The
International Labor Organization is the UN
specialized agency which seeks the promotion of
social justice and internationally recognized
human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919
and is the only surviving major creation of the
Treaty of Versailles which brought the League of
Nations into being and it became the first
specialized agency of the UN in 1946.
The ILO
formulates international labour standards in the
form of Conventions and Recommendations setting
minimum standards of basic labour rights:
freedom of association, the right to organize,
collective bargaining, abolition of forced
labour, equality of opportunity and treatment,
and other standards regulating conditions across
the entire spectrum of work related issues. It
provides technical assistance primarily in the
fields of:
• vocational training and vocational
rehabilitation;
• employment policy;
• labour administration;
• labour law and industrial relations;
• working conditions;
• management development;
• cooperatives;
• social security;
• labour statistics and occupational safety and
health.
Maquiladoras Safety
Network
The "Maquiladora
Health & Safety Support Network" is a volunteer
network of 400 occupational health and safety
professionals who have placed their names on a
resource list to provide information, technical
assistance and on-site instruction regarding
workplace hazards in the 3,000 "maquiladora"
(foreign-owned assembly) plants along the
U.S.-Mexico border.
Asia Pacific
Occupational Safety & Health Organisation
The objective
of APOSHO is to promote mutual understanding and
cooperation among the communities in the
Asia-Pacific region as well as to contribute to
the enhancement of occupational safety and
health in these communities through the exchange
of information and views.
Union Aid Abroad
APHEDA is the overseas humanitarian aid agency
of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
MAP
OHS Project
The Migrant Action Program (MAP) is a project
aimed at improving OHS needs for migrant workers
from Burma who are now living in Northern
Thailand (Chiang Mai) district. The project is
headed up by Andy Hall.
Andy Hall (bottom right) with
Burmese Migrant Agricultural workers in Northern
Thailand.
Construction villages for
Burmese migrant workers barely have basic
conditions. This village has approximately 100
workers and just one hand dug toilet.
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