The report sets out the findings of an investigative mission conducted by FIDH in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in June 2009, which documented the situation of migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees in both countries. The mission took place within the framework of FIDH’s actions aimed at the promotion and protection of migrants’ rights in the region. [1]
As Kazakhstan prepares to take the Chair of the OSCE in January 2010, FIDH highlights the reforms urgently required to ensure that migrant workers and refugees receive the protection to which they are entitled under international law.
Kazakhstan/ Kyrgyzstan: Exploitation of migrant workers, protection denied to asylum seekers and refugees.
Last Update 20 January 2011FIDH issues a report: "Kazakhstan/ Kyrgyzstan: Exploitation of migrant workers, protection denied to asylum seekers and refugees".
Footnotes
[1] Migration in Russia, April 2007, (available in Russian) http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Migranrussie472-4russe2007.pdf, and Migrant Workers in the Russian Federation: The Use of Forced Labour, July 2008, http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Migration_Russie_ENG_180908.pdf
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