Increase minimum wage to 177USD in Cambodia: start of online campaign!

 Is 177$ for Cambodian garment workers really too much to ask for?
Standing in solidarity with Cambodian workers today who make clothes.

Tweet it: Cambodian workers need $177 a month. @hm @ca_europe @levis #weneed177

Put it on their facebook pages:
- http://www.facebook.com/ca.belgium
- https://www.facebook.com/#!/hm/timeline
- https://www.facebook.com/#!/Levis.benelux
- https://www.facebook.com/Zara/?fref=ts

Take a picture with the sticker and post it online, and send it to wouke.oprel@wsm.be

Place of elderly in Belgium and Bangladesh: look and learn visit between OKRA and GK

With population growing ever grayer, both the north and the south are faced with realities and challenges of how to care for these elderly, integrate  them and offer them a dignified retirement. Clearly, social protection plays a major role in this. To share practices, a look and learn visit from OKRA, a Belgian member organisation of the Belgian Christian workers movement which caters for the specific needs of the 55+, to GK in Bangladesh. 12 volunteers from OKRA, including Jef Van Hecken, who was previously based in Dhaka for WSM, and two colleagues from WSM are participating for two weeks. 

You can follow their blog (in Dutch) here.

MoU to assist Nepali migrant workers in Qatar

In a bid to protect the rights of Nepali migrant workers in Qatar, which numbers to over 450,000 workers in varied sectors, the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal and the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and activation plan.

National Human Rights Commission Nepal Chair Anup Raj Sharma and National Human Rights Committee Qatar Chair Dr Ali Bin Al Marri signed this agreement to provide mutual assistance for the protection of migrant workers. The Nepalese delegation consisted of Mr Kamal Thapa Chettri and Ms Kalpana Jha as commission officers. Mr Laxman Basnet, SARTUC General Secretary, also accompanied the Nepalese delegation. SARTUC played a crucial role in bringing the two Human Rights Commissions together for facilitating the signing of this MoU. Solidarity Centre provided assistance for this accomplishment. Mr Laxman Basnet hailed the signing of MOU as a great step towards protecting Nepali migrant workers’ rights, and also stressed that such agreements shall be facilitated between NHRC Nepal and other countries of destination for Nepali migrant workers.

During the Qatar visit, SARTUC organised meetings and held discussions with Qatar-based Nepali organizations and groups regarding their conditions. The NHRC Nepal team and SARTUC General Secretary visited labour camps and the Nepalese Embassy in Qatar.

WSM Asia partners support the Social Protection 4 All campaign

All WSM Asia partners expressed their support to the Social Protection Campaign 4 All during the Continental Planning Workshop in Indonesia...