Donna J. Guest , Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman (chair)
14 October 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Amnesty International has focussed on migrant rights in Malaysia and Thailand, as two main receiving countries of migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Migrant workers suffer from a wide range of abuses in both countries, from their employers, recruiting agents, and the security forces. Amnesty campaigns for an improvement in their work and labour conditions and calls on both countries to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention.
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Speakers
Donna Guest is the Deputy Director for the Asia Pacific Program at Amnesty International. Her recent work includes Research Policy Coordinator at Amnesty and Editor in Chief, Child Soldiers Coalition 2008 Global Report.
Eva-Lotta Hedman is a Research Fellow of the Southeast Asia International Programme at LSE IDEAS. Dr Hedman is a member of the Editorial Board of Government & Opposition, and Series Editor, Berghahn Books on Forced Migration. =
Location
B212, 2nd Floor Columbia House, London School of Economics. Map.