OBJECTIVE 6 - RECRUITMENT AND DECENT WORK
Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
Promoting full respect for the human and labour rights of migrant workers at all skills levels, including migrant domestic workers will allow societies to reap the economic benefits of migration like boosting productivity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and income growth.
Labour migration has the potential to make a positive impact on the livelihoods of migrant workers, their families, as well as the countries of origin and destination. However, the outcomes depend on several factors such as the existence of legal and social mechanisms that ensure the protection of migrant worker rights.
Especially for low-skilled labour migration, there are significant concerns about their vulnerability to exploitation and high recruitment fees. For this objective, particular attention needs to be paid to the situation facing children and women migrant workers.
The focus of the SDGs on decent work and safe working conditions helps address trafficking for forced labour and other forms of exploitation and abuse like debt bondage, slavery, child labour etc. This requires increasing opportunities for decent work, facilitating safe migration and improving labour standards.
Promoting decent work is an integral component of the 2030 Agenda, as seen in Goal 8, and this entails many direct links with labour migration. There are also important links between employment, inequality, gender and migration. In this way, the SDGs recognize that progress in other areas will affect labour migration dynamics.
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8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
8.7: Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
8.8: Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
10.7: Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies
16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
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