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Written by MAP
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 08:09 |
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Stranded in factories or dormitories during the floods, often without their passports and documents in their possession, many migrant workers are now facing hefty fines for overstaying their visas and/or their 90 days notification.
Burmese migrant workers at the Sang Chareon Hot Dip Galvinize Co Ltd in Pathum Thani told MAP Foundation that they are being fined over 15,000 baht for overstaying because of the floods. The workers visas expired on 28th October 2011 and the Human Resource manager who held their passports could not get to the Immigration office because Pathum Thani was under water . On November 25th, they were told that immigration would charge them 15,000 baht each for the 20 days overstay. Overstay fees for visa are 500 baht a day with a maximum of 20,000 baht fine.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2011 08:15 |
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Written by MAP
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Friday, 25 November 2011 18:59 |
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Stepping Into the Light
MAP Foundation Statement
International Day to Stop Violence Against Women, November 25th 2011.
On Nov 10th 2011, the Chiang Mai Court sentenced a 31yr old local man to 29 yrs 3mths in prison for the rape of the 7yr old daughter of migrants
MAP Foundation, a Thai NGO, working with migrant workers from Burma, runs activities dedicated to reducing violence against migrant women and girls and to increasing their access to justice. Burmese migrant women have written their stories of violence, exploitation and abuse, and the stories of their efforts to get justice and compiled them into a report: Stepping into the Light, soon to be released by MAP Foundation .
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2011 08:17 |
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Written by MAP
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April 7th 2011
On Monday 4th April 2011, 16 Burmese migrant workers were killed and 50 seriously injured when the overcrowded truck crashed.
The Mekong Migration Network (MMN) and the Action Network for Migrants (ANM) are deeply concerned by the continued practice of packing workers
onto trucks in a manner which puts their lives at serious risk: read more JOINT STATEMENT of MMN and ANM
Click here for an example of the dangerous overcrowding of trucks. In these pictures migrants sit cramped in two levels on an immigration truck which has travelled from Phuket in the south of Thailand to deport the migrants at Mae Sot, in the North.
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KUALA LUMPUR, 28th August 2010:
Most migrant women in Asia are working as foreign domestic workers. Such predominance in domestic work is obvious in countries where female migrants outnumbered men, such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka. As today marks the international Solidarity Day
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