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20Jul2023

Migrant Domestic Workers Need Equal Access to Social Security

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). However, a recently published report titled “Skilled to care, forced to…

16Jun2023

Skilled to care, forced to work?

In 2022 Rapid Asia carried out a major study on migrant women domestic workers and private household employers in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. The…

16May2023

Rooms for Improvement to Combat Trafficking in Persons in ASEAN

The ASEAN Convention against Trafficking in Persons (ACTIP) was signed by ten ASEAN Heads of State in 2015 and became effective in 2017. The…

25Apr2023

Trafficking victim protection in ASEAN

Rapid Asia undertook an extensive study commissioned by ASEAN-ACT to examine the extent to which the ACTIP has been implemented in seven ASEAN member…

28Feb2023

What drives meaningful youth engagement?

Photo credit: United Nations More and more international organizations have realized the importance of engaging youth in sustainable development programs. Various youth engagement programs…

09Feb2023

Rapid Asia presented the evaluation results after the implementation of a responsible recruitment model (RRM) developed by Plan International

The synopsis of the Thailand – USA Webinar on Responsible Recruitment and Human Rights Due Diligence both English and Thai version can be found…

27Jan2023

KAP Survey on Forest Crime in the Lower Mekong Region and in China

In late 2021 – early 2022, Rapid Asia conducted a study on  KAP Survey on Forest Crime in the Lower Mekong Region and in…

25Jan2023

Cost-benefit analysis of Responsible Recruitment

Can responsible recruitment lead to profitability? The answer is yes! A cost-benefit analysis carried out by Rapid Asia on a seafood processing company found…

19Oct2022

Business Case Study Report: FAIR Fish Responsible Recruitment Model (RRM)

In late 2021 – early 2022, Rapid Asia conducted a study for the Fostering Accountability in Recruitment for Fishery Workers (FAIR Fish) project of…

29Jul2022

How to measure democracy

Democracy is a complex and loaded term, applied in myriad ways. Democracy means more than just the rule of the majority, and when we…

06Jul2022

Gender and Age Inequality in Disasters

Credit: Oxfam in the Philippines When disaster strikes a community, how does it impact different people of different ages and genders differently? Surprisingly little…

13May2022

Gender and Age Inequality of Disaster Risk in Southeast Asia

In late 2020, Rapid Asia conducted the study on Gender and Age Inequality of Disaster risk in Southeast Asia. The full report can be…