| Foreign workers are not criminals: groups |
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"How can we ask the international community to care about Taiwan if we cannot give proper attention to foreign workers’ educational and labor rights," said Joanna Lei, a legislator from the opposition Kuomintang caucus. "We should ask why they ran off instead of treating them like criminals."  |
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| PRESS RELEASE: Release of the TIP Report 2007 |
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VMWBO has two main reactions to the removal of Taiwan from the Tier 2 Special Watch List: The Report places too much emphasis on the increased detection and attempted prosecution of traffickers as well as on action plans and draft legislation. It fails .... |
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| Press Release |
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For many years, non-governmental organizations (NGO) have pushed for the right of migrant workers to freely choose employers. This will help eliminate abusive employers by allowing workers to vote with their own feet. We’re calling on the CLA to revamp their policy to incorporate this basic right to better protect migrant workers. |
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| Press conference to demand the amount of time spent at the shelter not be deducted from the working visa time period in which the migrant worker is entitled to work. |
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| Taiwanese Policy Victimizes Migrant Workers |
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The Council of Labor Affairs states that the victims may not work during the time in which they are being sheltered; yet, the grievance process for these victims take an average of three months to even a year. For many of these victims this long grievance process is detrimental to earning money, as well as the livelihoods of their family back in Vietnam. |
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| Migrant Laborer Fall Victim to Human Trafficking |
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Taiwan is currently labeled as a Tier 2 Watch List country in the United States Department of State 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. Although the government claims that efforts are being made to eliminate human trafficking; many migrant workers continue to fall victim to human right abuses. |
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| The U.S. State Department has released the "Trafficking in Persons Report - 2006" |
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A significant share of foreign workers primarily from Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are recruited legally for low-skilled jobs in Taiwan’s construction, fishing, or manufacturing industries or as domestic servants, and are subjected to forced labor or involuntary servitude by labor agencies or employers upon arrival in Taiwan.... |
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| Tainan’s Massive Labor Trafficking and Rape Case |
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... the elderly man demanded that she performed sexual acts for him, otherwise his son will not find her work. Mai began to describe how the broker systematically beats, rapes and forces the women under his care. He threatens them with immediate repatriation ... |
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| The Shelter of Compassion |
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The residents live together as a big extended family. They share laughter as well as tears: stories about their ordeal, their life as an worker in a foreign land. Thank goodness that we still have laughter to share with each other. |
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Commits to provide immediate relief to the victims of abuse