Tuesday, 4 August 2009
A series of trainings on "Migration of women" for the representatives of labour and social welfare agencies started in Ferghana on 25 July.
The training organizers are a UNDP project "Promotion of the rights of women migrant workers" and the Women's Committee of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.
The training is aimed at providing participants with information on basic definitions on migration, international experiences, regulation mechanisms and the institutes of migration process as well as teach them basic skills and methods of migration process regulations, gathering, analyzing and evaluation data.
Training participants looked into practice of migration process and coordination of activities of state and local administrative agencies in regulation of labour migration. They also received materials, reflecting contemporary migration processes, including legal and illegal migration, schemes for territorial movement of population, main trends of migration in Uzbekistan.
"A number of migrating women had been on rise and reached nearly 50% of all labour migrants in the world. Also, a number of "independent" female migrants has also increased. Abundance of labour resources in some regions has been caused by demographic factors and resulted in a tough competition in labour market. Women often lose such competition to men. This prompts women to seek employment outside the main residence area", one of the trainers, Abduhalil Rakhmonov, said.
The training in Ferghana will be followed by trainings in the Jizzakh and Tashkent regions.
The trainings has been conducted to execute the Law of Uzbekistan "On fighting human trafficking" dated 17 April 2008 and the National Action Plan on improving efficiency of combating human trafficking in 2008-2010.
The main objective of the Project is to improve protection of human rights of the women involved in labor migration and to increase the quality of services provided by relevant government and nongovernmental bodies to women migrant workers and victims of human trafficking.
