Theme: migrant workers

Roundtable discussions on the problems of migrant workers coming from neighboring countries were held on May 30, 2016 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, as part of the project of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). The discussion was…

Precarious work, or agency labor, is a kind of “leasing” of workers: under these types of contract recruitment or employment agencies provide workers, who are officially employed by the employment agency, to other companies (in this case the workers enter…

The situation of Tajik migrants in Russia is deteriorating, said FIDH and ADC Memorial in the new released report. Increasingly restrictive migration laws are pushing migrants into irregular situations and increasing their vulnerability, while exploitation goes unchecked. The dire economic…

On 18 September 2012 employees of ADC ‘Memorial’ helped a citizen of Uzbekistan to protect her labour rights which were violated by ‘Algos-Foods’ company. The work which was done by the applicant at canteen ‘1 Kopeyka’ wasn’t paid completely. During…

ADC Memorial hosted a human rights conference «Problems and risks of migration in the Russian Federation: protection of the rights of migrant workers, foreign citizens and stateless people». For two days experts and human rights activists from Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,…

The State Duma is considering a bill “On Amending the Federal Law of the Legal Status of Foreign citizens in the Russian Federation” (Article 13.1, paragraph 3, item 5 and paragraph 7,1, item 6), requiring migrants to obtain a work…