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Article

21 Jan 2008

Author:
Lin Noueihed, Reuters

Asian countries discuss migrant labour in UAE

Officials from more than 20 labour importing and exporting countries meet in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to discuss the regulation of the market for Asian migrants amid growing calls for their protection from abuse...The two-day meeting organised with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) includes the 10 Asian labour-exporting countries that meet under what is known as the Colombo Process to discuss their contract migrant workers.