This is the final issue of the Law and Society Trust Review for 2010. The Review includes a number of perspectives on the rights of migrant workers, factors for labour migration and its context together with recent observations by an international monitoring body.
The first paper in this Review deals with the issues of female migrant workers often blamed for the shattering of family unity because of their search for work overseas in search of better standards of living. Complimentarily the next paper focuses on the rights of labour workers. The paper examines each step in the migration process critiquing it in light of the applicable legal standards and deficiencies in relation to migrant worker rights protection. The incidents in which abuse, torture, vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections, rape and the possibilities of being employed for prostitution occurs are highlight in this paper.
The final paper in this publication is Concluding Observations of the United States Committee on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (2009). The paper calls on the Sri Lankan government to negotiate bilateral agreements on labour migration with major-labour receiving countries in order to secure the protection of migrant workers. This includes additional recommendations such as the need for the Sri Lankan Government to monitor and investigate all complaints of abuse or violence against migrant workers as well as carrying out gender sensitisation for those providing legal and consular assistance to Sri Lankan migrant workers overseas.