Category: Opinion
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South Korea’s response to Yemeni asylum seekers is satisfying no one
Hugh S Shin writes in Policy Forum & The Monsoon Project. Asylum seekers have landed in South Korea, and along with them, the rise of a ‘two-faced’ policy that fails to hold water. Earlier this year, more than 550 Yemeni asylum seekers flowed into the South Korean resort island of…
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Protecting migrant workers in Indonesia
Antje Missbach and Wayne Palmer write in Policy Forum. Despite its international legal obligations, Indonesia is not doing enough to protect the work rights of asylum seekers and victims of trafficking. Under the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW), irregular…
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