Empowering woman migrant workers in Asia: briefing kit files

This kit explores migrant women’s experiences through real-life stories, facts about women's migration for work in Asia, accounts of gendered violations and impacts throughout the migration cycle, and the contributions and capacity of women migrants. It explores the the links and differences between trafficking, smuggling and migration and provides practical leads on what can be done: strategic interventions, examples of good practice and tools and references for gender- and rights-based programming.

The kit aims to:

• enhance awareness and understanding of the vulnerabilities of overseas women migrant workers to discrimination, exploitation and abuse, throughout the migration process
• enhance an understanding of overseas women migrant workers not just as victims, but as survivors and a productive force
• promote policies, legislation and programmes that prevent abuse and protect and empower women migrant workers
• enrich an understanding of why and how prevention of discrimination and abuse of overseas women migrant workers should be addressed as issues through promoting gender equality and ending all forms of discrimination, racism and xenophobia; upholding basic human rights; and ensuring sustainable development and principles of good governance.