In The News

Transient Workers Count Too(TWC2) a local non-governmental organization that advocates for the well-being of migrant workers and improvements in the relationship between employers and employees, would like to submit the following statement as some of our concerns with regards to the policies of World Bank(WB) and the International Monetary Fund(IMF). Trade liberalization, privatization, and labour market deregulation are some of the policies that impact labour movement and labour standards of migrant workers.

During the World Bank/IMF forum held in Singapore in 2006, TWC2 organised a forum of its own. Aimed primarily at the press, 'Un-Accounted For' took place at The Substation Theatre on Monday, 18th September 2006.

TWC2 held a forum while the September 2006 World Bank-IMF meeting was taking place in Singapore. It issued two statements to the press. This was when the TWC2 report, 'Debt, Delays, Deductions: Wage Issues faced by Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore', was released.

Balearjo, Indonesia - Fitriyah was 14 when her mother left their Java village to work as a maid in Saudi Arabia. There were two letters from Sulastri after she arrived in Riyadh, and then a silence for seven years: no calls, no letters, and no money.