The Joint Committee for Migrants in Korea (JCMK) lists the Top 10 Best Migrants/Human Rights News of 2020. Check out what news made it to the top 10:
Top 10 news for migrant human rights in 2020
The top 10 news for migrant human rights in 2020 can be found meaningful in that it is the news chosen by migrants and related people such as NGO staff.
The top 10 news keywords for migrant human rights in 2020 are exclusion and discrimination.
By ranking: 1. The Constitutional appeal to Restrict Changes to workplaces under the Employment Permit System for migrants 2. Exclusion of Disaster Subsidies for Migrants 3. The discrimination in distribution of Public Masks for Migrants 4. Call for the Enactment of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
Among the news, discrimination-related articles were the most, with 46% of the total, which was Public masks distribution, Disaster subsidy, Special child care subsidy Non-face-to-face learning subsidies and 80% of migrants in the flood were excluded from flood damage subsidies even though they were migrant workers.
Then, 36% of articles related to migrant labor policies such as employment permits. Constitutional appeal for the employment permit system that restricts workplace changes, Unreasonable special re-entry system of the employment permit system, Fishing migrant workers’ wages, such as labor conditions, attracted a lot of attention.
The remaining 18% is Minnu award is enacted, which is a part that Korean society should pay more attention to in order to live with migrants in the future in relation to the cultural and social activities of migrant workers.
Although it was not selected as one of the top 10 news, there were many recommendations for the publication of poems by Nepalese migrant workers, the BLM movement spreading to the Middle East, industrial accidents for migrant workers, and migrant children who are not registered for a long-term stay.
2020 is the year when human rights in Korean society were revealed by Corona 19. Migrants are facing discrimination in various parts of society, including public masks, disaster subsidies, foreign student care subsidies, disaster information letters, and self-isolation. The rapid raising of issues by migrant human rights camps against such discrimination led to institutional improvement, but government policies and politicians taking migrant discrimination for granted have not changed.
The results of the selection of the Top 10 News for 2020 showed that there is no difference from the selection of the Top 10 News for Migrant Human Rights in 2003, ahead of the abolition of the industrial trainee system and the launch of the employment permit system. The reality of this land is that there is still discrimination and exclusion from the era of the industrial trainee system, which was criticized as a modern slave system and disappeared behind the scenes of history.
The Top 10 News on Migrant Human Rights in 2020 showed that migrants are not hoping for a favor, but are talking about their right to be free from discrimination. In view of these results, JCMK wants to accelerate the promotion of migrant rights and interests.
Ahead of World Migrant Workers Day in December 2020
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