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02jun10 MR-News - 020610
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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
MYANMAR: Tricked by traffickers
Alien worker scheme flops in Phuket
For Immediate Release 1st June 2010: Human Rights Watch/HRDF Joint
Statement on Situation of Migrants in Thailand to the UN Human Rights
NEWS ON REFUGEES
Camp police beat up refugee
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ေရြ ႔ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားမ်ားသတင္း
ယာယီပတ္စပို႔မ်ား ထိုင္းဘက္တင
ြ ္ ထုတ္ေပးရန္ ညိႇႏိႈင္း
ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားမ်ားလည္း ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးခံစားခြင့္ရိွ
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ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားသတင္း
မယ္လစခန္းတြင္ ၀မ္းေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡသည္ ၂၀ေက်ာ္
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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
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MYANMAR: Tricked by traffickers
YANGON, 31 May 2010 (IRIN)
Ko Hla* paid an agent US$800 and then started work on a Taiwanese fishing ship,
thinking it was good money at $260 a month. He toiled 18 hours a day.
“We weren’t allowed to complain, we weren’t allowed to contact our [families]. Often
we were beaten and intimidated,” the 30-year-old said. “It wasn’t what we expected.”
He quit 16 months later and returned home to find that the agent, who was supposed
to send his salary to his family, had run away without making a single payment.
Due to limited job opportunities and low incomes, tens of thousands of Burmese seek
work abroad, hoping to earn a better living, but many like Ko Hla and his friends fall
prey to human traffickers.
Although there is no reliable data on human trafficking in Myanmar, experts believe
several thousands are trafficked annually.
Human prey
The Burmese government says China is the main destination, followed by Thailand,
Malaysia and Singapore.
Women and girls are trafficked to China for forced marriage and sex work, while
adults and children are sent to Thailand and Malaysia for forced labour and sexual
exploitation.
“The victims of trafficking blindly believe whatever they’re told by the brokers
without trying to get correct information regarding the job,” Nan Tin Tin Shwe, anti-
trafficking coordinator of the international NGO World Vision, told IRIN.
The country also has internal trafficking from rural areas to the Chinese and Thai
borders – known international trafficking routes.
“Children can fall prey to traffickers once they have migrated internally to these areas
– or they may end up in exploitative and abusive labour in these areas,” said Lamia
Rashid, director of child protection for Save the Children.
Agencies say traffickers with job offers are targeting children and young people in the
Ayeyarwady Delta, which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis two years ago.
“Children and young people are keen to take these risks and migrate, and there is a
high possibility for them to end up in exploitative working conditions, including
sexual exploitation,” Rashid said.
Coordinated fight
The government and international agencies have been working on a national plan of
action to combat human trafficking, raising awareness through the media and
community meetings.
In addition, the government has 23 anti-trafficking task forces to rescue survivors and
stringent laws to punish the traffickers.
Experts say ongoing efforts are needed to protect victims once they have returned
home and to scale up prevention efforts in vulnerable communities.
“Victims of trafficking come from source communities that are spread across the
country, often living in villages that are remote and situated a long distance from
services available from the Department of Social Welfare, the Myanmar Women’s
Affairs Federation, and NGOs,” said Maciej Pieczkowski, programme manager of the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Myanmar.
“Just raising awareness in the country of origin is not enough,” said Ohnmar Ei Ei
Chaw, national project coordinator of UNIAP.
“The countries of destination, too, should take action effectively against the industries
that use cheap labour and exploit the workers… The international community needs to
put pressure on those countries of destination.”
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89319
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Alien worker scheme flops in Phuket
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
PHUKET: Phuket is facing a shortage of alien labor as the numbers of registered alien
workers requesting extensions of their permits are down 15,166 year-on-year,
according to official figures.
The Phuket Provincial Employment Office (PPEO) said that this year only 49,017 out
of 64,183 registered workers from Burma, Laos and Cambodia extended their work
permits.
The vast majority of these, 99% or 48,661 people, were Burmese. There were also
326 Laotian and 30 Cambodians who extended under the program.
Workers from these three countries are grouped separately from others by the PPEO,
as most do not hold passports issued from their home countries.
Official sources estimate there could be as many as 100,000 low-wage workers from
neighboring countries working on the island.
In a move to legalize more of them, those who can prove that they are from Burma,
Laos or Cambodia are able to register as legal workers.
If they do, they are allowed to work for up to two years, but must renew their worker
ID cards annually.
The large decline in the number seeking work permit extensions shows that there may
have been problems with workers obtaining identification in their home countries.
Some are believed to have returned home, while others have remained working
illegally in Phuket, where trucks packed with Burmese and ethnic Mon workers are a
common sight on roads.
Phuket Immigration Superintendent Phanuwat Ruamrak told the Gazette that from
October last year, Phuket Immigration deported around 5,000 illegal workers, 90% of
whom hailed from areas under the control of the Burmese government.
Phuket is not the only province in Immigration Police Region 6 to have a problem
with unregistered alien workers.
“Our numbers are still lower than Songkhla and Surat Thani provinces,” he said.
“I can’t tell what happened with the missing numbers; maybe they went home, or
perhaps they are still working here. We will continue to search for illegal alien
workers.
“I have spoken to employers in Phuket and found that we still need more alien
workers, who tend to work hard for less pay than Thai workers. They usually take
only one day off a year as well,” he said.
PPEO statistics show that this year 7,472 employers registered with them, asking for
120,000 workers.
In chorus with Col Phanuwat, PPEO chief Nopadol Ployoudee said, “Most alien
workers are doing difficult and dirty jobs like cleaning, construction and
fishing…These are jobs that Thai workers don’t want to do and that’s why we need
more alien workers,” he said.
“In the near future, we will have a team from Bangkok working in the search for
illegal alien workers to ensure that we will have only legal workers in Thailand,” he
added.
http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2010/article8773.html
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For Immediate Release 1st June 2010: Human Rights Watch/HRDF Joint
Statement on Situation of Migrants in Thailand to the UN Human Rights
Mr. President,
Human Rights Watch, with the support of the Human Rights and Development
Foundation of Thailand, thank the Special Rapporteur on Migrants for his report on
communications, which highlights the plight of migrants in Thailand. An estimated
two to three million migrants work in Thailand. The majority originate from Burma,
but significant numbers are also from Laos and Cambodia. These migrants work in
the most dangerous and lowest paid jobs, contributing 6 to 7 percent of Thailand’s
GDP and making up 5 to 10 percent of its workforce.
Main challenges faced by Thailand’s migrants result from the government’s emphasis
on presumed nationality security concerns and economic imperatives over respect for
human rights. Thailand continues to lack a long-term strategy for integrating migrants
into its society or protecting their fundamental rights. This means migrant access to
hygienic and sustainable housing, as encouraged in the Special Rapporteur’s report,
remains a distant reality. Policies to promote migrant access to health care are more
promising, but migrants continue to be regarded as second-class citizens and subject
to systematic discrimination, and access to these services are also severely limited in
practice.
The past year has seen migrants in Thailand continue to face routine exploitation at
work by employers and lack of effective access to labor rights protection mechanisms,
dangerous working conditions, severe restrictions on freedom of movement and
organizing, and regular victimization through systematic targeting for arbitrary arrest
and extortion by police and other government officials. Allegations of national
security concerns resulted in reversal of a promising policy by the Transport
Department to allow migrants access to driving licenses (though now they lawfully
can own vehicles).
Human Rights Watch expressed concerns at the Human Rights Council last year
regarding treatment of migrants disabled as a result of work accidents. Despite the
Special Rapporteur’s extensive correspondence with Thailand on this issue, and an
ILO Committee of Experts report concluding Thailand is breaching ILO Convention
No. 19, to which it is a party, migrants continue to be denied access to the Workmen’s
Compensation Fund, as well as deprived work accident rehabilitation services and
disability registration. The discriminatory treatment of migrants violates Thailand’s
obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination and contravenes the extensive pledges on non-discrimination
and respect for migrant rights made in Thailand’s recent membership campaign for
this Council.
Mr. President, we note finally that the Special Rapporteur has yet to receive a
response to his request for an official visit to Thailand. Human Rights Watch strongly
supports such a visit as a means to constructively support Thailand in its efforts to
adhere to its international obligations to promote migrant rights and thereby honor its
recent pledges to this Council.
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NEWS ON REFUGEES
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Camp police beat up refugee
Monday, 31 May 2010 18:32
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A refugee was severely tortured by the camp police on May 30,
at about 9 am, for cutting down a small tree near his shed in the camp which he grew,
said a refugee leader from the camp.
The victim is Ibrahim (32), son of Jaffar Ahmed, residing in MRC # Z-1989, Shed #
869, Block # C and Shed # 1 of Nayapara refugee camp.
Ibrahim was cutting down the small tree for repairing his shed, when a group of
policemen saw him and tortured him severely for cutting the tree without permission
from the authorities.
“It is grown by me, and it is not necessary to take permission from the authorities, I
believe,” said a relative quoting the victim.
After severely beating him up, the police left the camp. Later, the victim went to the
UNHCR office to lodge a complaint. But, the police patrol of the camp saw the victim
in the UNHCR office and became furious. He was severely beaten up again after
being dragged out of the UNHCR office.
The victim became unconscious and was immediately carried to MOH hospital in the
camp by the refugees. The victim is still in the camp hospital.
The camp situation is no different from the situation in Arakan State, Burma, said a
refugee from the camp.
http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2
607:camp-police-beat-up-refugee-&catid=120:may2010&Itemid=2
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ေရြ ႔ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားမ်ားသတင္း
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ယာယီပတ္စပို႔မ်ား ထိုင္းဘက္တင
ြ ္ ထုတ္ေပးရန္ ညိႇႏိႈင္း
ျမတ္ခိုင္Uီး / ၃၁ ေမ ၂၀၁၀
ထိုင္းႏိုင္င
ံ တြင္း ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမားUီးေရ စုစုေပါင္း (၂) သန္းခန္႔ရွိမည္ဟု
လုပ္သမားေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသူမ်ားမွ ခန္႔မွန္းထားၾကသည္။
http://khitpyaing.org/index.php?route=detail&id=1768
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ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားမ်ားလည္း ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးခံစားခြင့္ရိွ
ျမတ္ခိုင္Uီး / ၀၁ ဇြန္ ၂၀၁၀
ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတင
ြ ္ ဆႏၵျပပြမ
ဲ ်ားေၾကာင့္ နစ္နာခဲ့သူမ်ားား ထိုင္းစိုးရက ကူညီေပးရာတြင္
ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမားမ်ားလည္း ပါဝင္ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
ထိ
ု စီစU္ရ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံရိွ ေသးစားႏွင
့္ လတ္စား စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္း ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးဘဏ္မွ
ဘတ္ေငြ (၅) ဘီလီယံကို ေသးစားႏွင
့္ လတ္စား စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ (၂,၀၀၀) ခန္
႔ ား ဘတ္ေငြ (၃)
သန္းထိ ေငြေခ်းေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္သည္။
ေရရွည
္ ေႂကြးေပးစနစ္ကို တည္ေဆာက္သြားမည္ ျဖစ္သည္
့ တြက္ ေစ်းႏႈန္းသက္သာစြာ ရစ္က်
ျပန္လည္ေပးဆပ္ရမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး လိ
ု ပ္သည့္ စာရြက္စာတမ္းမ်ားကို ဇြန္ (၃၀) ရက္ ေနာက္ဆံုးထား၍
တင္သင
ြ ္းရမည္ျဖစ္သည္။
လိ
ု ပ္ေသာ ေသးစိတ္ သတင္းခ်က္လက္မ်ားကို သိလိုပါက ေဖာက္သည္ဆက္ဆံေရးဌာန၊
စိုးရိမ္ရာဆိုင္ရာဘဏ္၊ ဖုန္းနံပါတ္ (၀၂-၆၄၅၉၀၀၀) သို႔ ဆက္သြယ္စံုစမ္းႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
http://khitpyaing.org/index.php?route=detail&id=1865
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ထိုင္းေတာင္ပိုင္းတြင္ ဆူနာမီကယ္ဆယ္ေရး စမ္းျပဳလုပ္
ျမတ္ခိုင္Uီး / ၀၁ ဇြန္ ၂၀၁၀
၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ
္ တြင္း ျဖစ္ပာြ းေသာ ဆူနာမီေရလႈိင္းဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ထိင
ု ္းႏိုင္ငံတင
ြ ္ ထိခိုက္ဆံုး ျဖစ္ခဲ့သည့္
ဖန္ငခ႐ိုင္၊ တကြာပၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ဘန္နမ့္ခမ္း ေက်းရြာတြင္ ကုန္းေရပူးတြဲ စမ္းေလ့က်င့္မႈ ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး
ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမားမ်ားလည္း ပါဝင္ေလ့က်င့္ခဲ့သည္။
ဆိုပါေလ့က်င့္ပ၏
ဲြ ထူးျခားခ်က္မွာ ယခင္ကမပါဝင္ဖူးေသာ ေရျပင္ေပၚရွိ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး ေလ့က်င့္မႈလည္း
ယခုခါတြင္ ပါဝင္လာသည္။ ဆိုပါ ကုန္းေရပူးတြဲ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး ေလ့က်င့္မ
ႈ တြက္ ေရယာU္ (၄) စီး၊
ရဟတ္ယာU္ (၁) စီးတို႔လည္း ပူးေပါင္းားျဖည့္ခဲ့သည္။
ကိုယ္တိုင္ကိုယ္က် ပါဝင္ေလ့က်င့္ခ့ေ
ဲ သာ ျမန္မာလုပ္သား ကိုတာက “ခုလို ေရေကာကုန္းေကာ
ပူးတြလ
ဲ ုပ္တာ ပထမဆံုးပဲ၊ ရင္ကဆိုရင္ ကုန္းေပၚမွာပဲလုပ္တာ” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ေလ့က်င့္ပတ
ဲြ င
ြ ္ လူUီးေရ (၃၀၀) ေက်ာ္ပါဝင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယခင္ႀကိမ္မ်ားထက္ လူပါဝင္မႈ နည္းသြားသည္ဟု
သိရသည္။ ယခင္ စမ္းသပ္ေလ့က်င့္မႈ ႀကိမ္မ်ားတြင္ ေလွလုပ္သားမ်ား၊ ပန္းရန္လုပ္သမားမ်ားလည္း
လုပ္ပိတ္ထားေပးၾကသျဖင့္ ပါဝင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယေန႔ေလ့က်င့္ပြဲတင
ြ ္မူ လုပ္သမားမ်ားစုမွာ
လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ဆင္းေနရသျဖင့္ ပါဝင္ဆင္ႏႏ
ႊဲ ိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေပ။
ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတင
ြ ္ လူေပါင္း (၅,၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ ေသေၾကပ်က္စီးခဲ့သည့
္ နက္ ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမား
(၁,၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ ပါဝင္ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
http://khitpyaing.org/index.php?route=detail&id=1871
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မယ္လစခန္းတြင္ ၀မ္းေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡသည္ ၂၀ေက်ာ္
၂၀ေက်ာ္ ေဆး႐ံုတင္ထားရ
ေမလ ၃၁ရက္
၃၁ရက္။ ေနာ္ျဖဴျဖဴသင္း (ေက
ေကုိင္စ)ီ
မယ္လစခန္း ေမ္ိုင္ေဆး႐ံ
ု ုပ္ ဆရာေစာေနစဲန္က “က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေဆး႐ံုမွာ ၀မ္းေလွ်ာေရာဂါနဲ႔ လူနာ
၂၀ေက်ာ္ ေရာက္ေနတယ္။ ဲဒ
ီ္ ထဲမွာ ၉ေယာက္က ကာလ၀မ္းေရာဂါ positive ျပၿပီး
က်န္တသ
႔ဲ ူေတြကေတာ႔ negative ေျဖထြက္တယ္။ လူနာေတြကိုေတာ႔ မယ္လေဆး႐ံု ႀကီးန႔ဲ စီတီစီမွာ
ထားထားၿပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔ တတ္ႏုိင္ဆံုး ေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္ လုပ္ေပးထားေတာ့ သူတို႔ရ႕ဲ ေျခေနက
ေကာင္းပါတယ္”ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ယခုခ်ိန္တင
ြ ္ မယ္လဒုကၡသည္ စခန္း၌ ၎၀မ္းေရာဂါေၾကာင္႔ ယင္နားေသာစားစာႏွင့္ မွည့္လြန္
သီးႏွံမ်ား မစားရန္ ေၾကညာ ခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ထားေၾကာင္း မယ္လဒုကၡသည္တစ္Uီးက ယခုလို
တည္ျပဳ ေျပာဆိုသည္။ “ဟုတ္တယ္ ေၾကညာထားတယ္။ သီးႏွွံေတြကို မေရာင္းဖို႔န႔ဲ
ယင္နားစာေတြကို မေရာင္းဖို႔။ မွည့္လန
ြ ္တဲ့ ဒူးရင္းသီး၊ ၾကက္ေမာက္သီးေတြနဲ႔ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါး၊ သုပ္။
ဲဒါေတြကို မေရာင္းဖို႔ ပိတ္ ထားတယ္”ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ယေန႔မနက္ ၁၀နာရီတင
ြ ္ စခန္းေကာ္မတီႏွင့္ ျခားေသာ ဖြဲ႔စည္းမ်ား စုေပါင္း၍
စခန္းတြင္းေနထိုင္ၾကသူမ်ား ၀မ္းေရာဂါမျဖစ္ောင္ ႀကိဳ တင္ကာကြယ္မႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ရန္ႏွင့္ ႏွစ္ပတ္
သံုးပတ္တြင္း ၀မ္းေရာဂါ ပေပ်ာက္ောင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းႏိုင္ေရးတြက္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု သိ ရသည္။
http://www.kicnews.org/?p=2837
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aemfE&kd if; 1 ZGef 2010
http://burmese.dvb.no/textonly/
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မီး႐ိႈ႕ခံရ၍ ပ်က္စီးဆံုး႐ံႈး သြားသည့္ Uယ်ာU္ၿခံ Eက ၅၀၀ ၀န္းက်င္ရွိေၾကာင္း ခန္႔မွန္း
ဇြန္လ ၁ရက္။ ေစာခါးစူးညား (ေက
ေကိုင္စ)ီ
လက္ရ
ွိ ခ်ိန္တင
ြ ္ ေတာင္ငူခ႐ိုင္၌ နဖ စကခ(၇) လက္ောက္ခံ ခမရ(၄၂၄)၊ (၄၂၆)၊ (၄၂၇)၊ (၃၆၆)၊
ခလရ(၂၅၀)၊ (၂၅၁) (၁၀၂)ႏွင့္ ေကဲန
္ ယ္လ္ေ တပ္မဟာ(၂) လက္ောက္ခံ တပ္မဟာ
စစ္ဆင္ေရးတပ္ဖ႕ဲြ ၊ တပ္ရင္း(၆)တို႔ ပံုမွန္ လႈပ္ရွား လွ်က္ရွိသည္။
http://www.kicnews.org/?p=2851
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