Despite reaching stable growth in the number of female migrant workers, Vietnamhas not yet paid due attention to their specific rights and demands, said a UNofficial.
Speaking at a seminar on empowering women migrant workers inHanoi on March 11, Suzette Mitchell, Chief Representative of the United NationsDevelopment Fund for Women (UNIFEM), stressed that women are easily vulnerableto abuse in the countries where they work. The mass media can play an importantrole in detecting abuse and making it public when it occurs, she said.
According to Director of the Overseas Labour Management DepartmentNguyen Ngoc Quynh, the number of female migrant workers has continuouslyincreased in recent years, accounting for 25-30 percent of the annual total of80,000 guest workers.
Women sent to work abroad through unofficialchannels face the risk of being exploited and abused or becoming the victims ofhuman trafficking activities, he said.
At the seminar, experts,reporters and representatives of labour export businesses discussed policies,the real situation and measures to protect the benefit of female labourers whenworking overseas.
The seminar was the first activity of a project toempower women Vietnamese migrant workers implemented by the Ministry of Labour,War Invalids and Social Affairs with financial and technical support fromUNIFEM.
The two-year project focuses on developing national policies andrecruitment services in order to meet the demands and protect the legitimaterights of female Vietnamese guest workers.
The project is part ofUNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers which is beingimplemented in six labour exporting countries, including Cambodia , Indonesia ,Laos , the Philippines , Lebanon and Vietnam and by eight labour importersnamely Malaysia , Singapore , Hong Kong , Thailand , Jordan, the UAE, Syria andQatar./.
Speaking at a seminar on empowering women migrant workers inHanoi on March 11, Suzette Mitchell, Chief Representative of the United NationsDevelopment Fund for Women (UNIFEM), stressed that women are easily vulnerableto abuse in the countries where they work. The mass media can play an importantrole in detecting abuse and making it public when it occurs, she said.
According to Director of the Overseas Labour Management DepartmentNguyen Ngoc Quynh, the number of female migrant workers has continuouslyincreased in recent years, accounting for 25-30 percent of the annual total of80,000 guest workers.
Women sent to work abroad through unofficialchannels face the risk of being exploited and abused or becoming the victims ofhuman trafficking activities, he said.
At the seminar, experts,reporters and representatives of labour export businesses discussed policies,the real situation and measures to protect the benefit of female labourers whenworking overseas.
The seminar was the first activity of a project toempower women Vietnamese migrant workers implemented by the Ministry of Labour,War Invalids and Social Affairs with financial and technical support fromUNIFEM.
The two-year project focuses on developing national policies andrecruitment services in order to meet the demands and protect the legitimaterights of female Vietnamese guest workers.
The project is part ofUNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers which is beingimplemented in six labour exporting countries, including Cambodia , Indonesia ,Laos , the Philippines , Lebanon and Vietnam and by eight labour importersnamely Malaysia , Singapore , Hong Kong , Thailand , Jordan, the UAE, Syria andQatar./.
