Asian Labour Update

Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

• Editorial: Globalized agricultural workers: feeding the world, uncertain of their own next meals
• Contract Farming and Riverine Aquaculture - The Realities of the ‘Slave Contract’ and the Risks those Farmers Must Bear
• Struggle of Tea Plantation Workers in North East India
• Pineapple Giant Moves to Unseat Militant Union
• Strengthening the Peasant and Plantation Workers' Movement in North Sumatra

By Issue No: 74 January - March 2010

By Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC)

Malnutrition and Starvation Deaths 

‘Due to malnutrition people started falling sick, in the last five years more than 200 people have died on this (Tea) estate alone.’

‘They do not have any rice, they are hungry and they have to work on empty stomach- so they fall ill and die. All of them died due to hunger and malnutrition. This is how my husband died, he worked without enough food and he died because the tea garden was shut down.’ 

Issue No : 73  October - December 2009

Ros Dina

Sinapan Samydorai

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is moving forward in their regional economic integration by 2015. The regional integration includes setting up regional social protection for all migrant workers and labour standards recognizing migrant workers as an integral part of labour who need social security. The migration of workers and their families, including low and unskilled workers, many of whom are undocumented, needs more serious consideration within the national and portal regional  social protection schemes.