UN RBHR Forum Side Event: Women's Initiatives to Interrogate the Corporates' Accountability

Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) was invited by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) to talk in the side event organized by APWLD during the United Nations Responsible Business and Human Rights (UN RBHR) Forum, happening on 24-27 September 2024 at United Nations Conference Center (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand.

The side event itself happening on 24 September 2024 at 2.30PM Bangkok. Titled Grassroot Women's Initiatives to Interrogate the Corporates' Accountability, the side event aims to expose the failures of the current system which is dominated by corporate hegemony, demask the true faces of corporate greed in different sectors, share cases from different Asian and Pacific countries on several aspects such as labour, agriculture, and public sector and provide recommendations so that communities and people’s movements can further their resistance to fight for a sustainable, just, and equitable development paradigm. 

Present as speakers were women from various sectors, namely Azra Sayeed from Roots for Equity, Pakistan; Nang Moet Moet from Women League of Burma, Burma/Myanmar; Dewi Amelia from Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants, SAR Hongkong; and Brenda M Yasay from Center for Women's Resources Inc, Philippines.

Dewi Amelia from APMM presents the role of business in the migration journey of migrants, from pre departure to the return home. By taking example from Indonesia, she points out that deregulation in the field of labor migration has ensured migration facilitation is handed over to the private sector, including through educational and training institutions, financial institutions, and recruitment or placement companies. She also explained the situation of migrant workers' rights under the current migration facilitation.

The side event went well and in general able to meet its objectives.

Please read the full APMM’s presentation here