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30Jan2024

Why employers risk employing undocumented migrants

Most of the migrants in Thailand are from Myanmar and have been coming to the country since the economic boom between 1987 and 1996….

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…

27Oct2020

Report Discussion on Public Attitudes towards Migrants in Asia

Event date: Wednesday, 4th November 2020 Event time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Location: SEA Junction, Room 408, 4th Floor, SEA Junction Available on Facebook live…

25Sep2020

Rapid Asia 10 years, the Founder’s story

It was late 2009 when I got fired from my job. Everyone I spoke to asked me if I had plans to start my…

12Mar2020

Forced labour in the Thai fishing industry

Photo credit: Mahmud Rahman The Thai fishing sector has been under scrutiny in the recent years and the ILO “Ship to Shore Rights Project”…

12Mar2020

Endline research findings on fishers and seafood workers in Thailand

This was an endline survey carried out by Rapid Asia on fishers and seafood workers in Thailand. The study was done on behalf of…