Petiton for the Protection of Migrant Workers in the Taiwan Area
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The Honorable, Director General Juan Somaviaf of the International Labour Organization
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We, the undersigned organizations, institutions, churches and individuals appeal to the Director General Juan Somaviaf of the International Labour Organization to immediately take appropriate actions to investigate the cause of the most recent violent riot by ethnic, migrant workers that erupted late on Sunday August 21, 2005 by more than 1,600 migrant workers building a mass transit railway project in Kaohsiung Taiwan.
We demand that Council of Labor Affairs Chairwoman Chen Chu (闡腑) be removed and expelled from that position for her gross dereliction of her duties. Specifically to timely investigate and provide appropriate assistance to the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers currently in the Taiwan area.
We are appealing to the Director General Juan Somaviaf of the International Labour Organization to investigate the current maltreatment of migrant workers in the Taiwan area and to refer said findings to the International Court of Justice.
We call for the formation of an independent oversight institution composed of migrant workers in the Taiwan area to take positive actions to prevent further violence as well as extend free, timely, appropriate and full assistance to all distressed migrant workers.
Labor standards for migrant workers in the Taiwan area fall below the
minimum standards of basic labor rights in terms of freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, equality of opportunity and treatment, housing, facilities for recreation, cultural expression and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues.
We seek the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights for all migrants in the Taiwan area. The decision to migrate, in the same way as the decision to authorize or not to authorize migration for employment is an rational decision, based on knowledge of the conditions of work and life in the areas of employment and is needed to remedy general or sectoral labor shortages.
Provisions for the protection of migrant workers do, themselves, have effects on the protection of the entire workforce that in protecting migrant workers against exploitation and stipulating first and foremost the principle of equality of treatment, followed by equality of opportunity and treatment with non migrant workers.
The powers that be, in the Taiwan area fail to implement instruments and fulfill their obligation to apply, without discrimination in respect of nationality, race, religion or sex, to immigrants lawfully within Taiwan area.
We demand the protection of human rights for all migrant workers and an end to state sponsored discrimination, contemporary forms of slavery, indentured servitude and forced labor in the Taiwan area.
Director General, the time to act is now. Migrants' rights are human rights!
We demand that Council of Labor Affairs Chairwoman Chen Chu (闡腑) be removed and expelled from that position for her gross dereliction of her duties. Specifically to timely investigate and provide appropriate assistance to the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers currently in the Taiwan area.
We are appealing to the Director General Juan Somaviaf of the International Labour Organization to investigate the current maltreatment of migrant workers in the Taiwan area and to refer said findings to the International Court of Justice.
We call for the formation of an independent oversight institution composed of migrant workers in the Taiwan area to take positive actions to prevent further violence as well as extend free, timely, appropriate and full assistance to all distressed migrant workers.
Labor standards for migrant workers in the Taiwan area fall below the
minimum standards of basic labor rights in terms of freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, equality of opportunity and treatment, housing, facilities for recreation, cultural expression and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues.
We seek the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights for all migrants in the Taiwan area. The decision to migrate, in the same way as the decision to authorize or not to authorize migration for employment is an rational decision, based on knowledge of the conditions of work and life in the areas of employment and is needed to remedy general or sectoral labor shortages.
Provisions for the protection of migrant workers do, themselves, have effects on the protection of the entire workforce that in protecting migrant workers against exploitation and stipulating first and foremost the principle of equality of treatment, followed by equality of opportunity and treatment with non migrant workers.
The powers that be, in the Taiwan area fail to implement instruments and fulfill their obligation to apply, without discrimination in respect of nationality, race, religion or sex, to immigrants lawfully within Taiwan area.
We demand the protection of human rights for all migrant workers and an end to state sponsored discrimination, contemporary forms of slavery, indentured servitude and forced labor in the Taiwan area.
Director General, the time to act is now. Migrants' rights are human rights!
449 Signatures
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Wu Kai Lee
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- Director General, the time to act is now. Migrants' rights are human rights!
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Glen Denton
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- Former Taiwan Resident
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david oliver
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Team Omega
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Kelly Lynn Harris
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Fu L. Cho
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Richard Wong
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- Taiwanese corporations need to stop harassing all Taiwanese and foreign workers' human rights!!!
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william rowland
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- Foreign Workers and Immigrants invited by employers and your Government need to have their Human and Civil Rights protected and employers who entice them to come to Taiwan to work and failed to live up to the terms of their contracts and agreements with the workers need to be tried and placed in prison and never allowed to operate any business again in Taiwan. If you do not protect the human and civil rights of workers and protect them from mistreatment---a campaign will go forth to deprive Taiwan of any and all of it's immigrant and invited workers for which no one in Taiwan will be able to hire them at any price. They will be going to other countries where their treament is much better.
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David Winston
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Huang, Wei Li
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- I am a Taiwan citizen! Please help before the Chen Shui Bian governement of Taiwan slander the good name of all Taiwanese people everywhere! Taiwanese are not slavers we respect human rights. Indict this this illegitimate government for their criminal acts upon our neighbors.
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Kaj Dorstenia
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- I urge the Protection of Migrant Workers in the Taiwan
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Shiloh Lalumiere
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Mai Lee
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Lennon Ying-Dah Wong
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- Local and migrant workers, unite!
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Chanah Hollander
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Jeannette Sierra
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Louis Sierra
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Amanda Stuckey
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Dona Dougherty
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E Victor Mereski, USN Ret E9
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Lydia Sevilla
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Jose Medhina Awad
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Elizabeth I Benson
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R. D
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- Workers should get their rights. No one deserves to be exploited, helpless & poor workers, least of all. Please do the needfull.
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Eric
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Bernard Doalongbong
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- As matter of fact not only Tailand workers but also Taiwan workers have been deprived Basic Labors Rights--To stage a strike must be "approved" by police under current The Assembly and Demonstration Law of R.O.C.;Moveover,when we outcry Corporations' boss or the capitalists for their suppression,we're used to be sued under the "Vilifying Crime"--which is not a crime in a truely democratically nations such as U.S. and British of their criminal court.
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Fred Y. L. Chiu
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- It is really appalling to witness such a practice of intdenture labourer trading scheme in this 21st century.
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Liz Perry
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Moisйs Gutierrez
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craig clark
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Lawrence Wright
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Juan Schoch
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- FL - USA
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Tim Willard
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DENNIS ALLEN DURKOP (TRUST)
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- If one kicks a dog to often it will eventually bite!
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megan kramer
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Serda Kucukyan
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HsiaoMei Hsieh
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susan churchill
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Aaron Gao
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- neo_alto
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Thomas Yates
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- This is inhumane and deceiving
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Krista Zabor
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Jan King
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- the petition speaks highly for the human rights of all people and no amount of money is worth it or right to acquire that money at the expense of another human being!
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Sally Mengel
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David May
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John Arteaga
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Jessica White
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Jackson Jo
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katie hughes
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Bruno Ciceri
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- This incident is only the point of the iceberg. In Taiwan hundred of migrant workers are deprived of their basic rights (such as using the cellphone to call theirs families, having a day off, etc.) all of these is done by the government in collusion with the brokers that collect exorbitant fees and get away with any sort of illegal deductions. Is time that the Taiwan will make a serious review of the "Taiwan migration policy". Migrants rights are human rights!
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Fr. Edgar Andrew Carbon, SDB.
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