According to the data obtained from Department of Foreign Employment, nearly 65,000 labour permits were issued to Nepali workers going to Bahrain in the last two and a half decades, from 1993/94 through 2017/18. The number of labour permits issued for Bahrain increased from a scanty...
Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Nepal and The Government of the United Arab Emirates in the recruitment, employment and repatriation of workers. The Memorandum of Understanding came into force on 14th June 2019....
Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Nepal and the Government of the Republic of Mauritius on the recruitment and employment of workers from Nepal. The agreement was signed on 11th June 2019....
This report on returnee women migrant workers (RWMWs) draws from insights shared by 1,210 women to understand the influences, conditions, and challenges that characterize women’s migration from and reintegration to Nepal. This is a summarised and edited version of the report ‘Retu...
Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the National Police Agency of Japan and the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of the Government of Nepal on a Basic Framework for...
With the increase in female migration, especially in the domestic sector, and accompanying reports of worker exploitation and abuse, labour-sending countries are grappling with the question of how to protect these workers. Drawing on a critical feminist policy analysis framework, this...
The South Asia Work in Freedom Transnational Evaluation (SWiFT) is a five-year programme of research and evaluation funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID/UKAID). SWiFT assesses and informs the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) DFIDfunded Work in Free...
Memorandum of Understanding signed on 29th October 2018 between the Government of Nepal and the Government of Malaysia on the recruitment, employment and repatriation of the workers....
The increase in female migration from Nepal may be attributed to the changing global labour market and household structures, which have resulted in differential impacts on women in sending and receiving countries....
As international female labour migration has increased, so too have efforts to prevent the exploitation of labour migrants. However, evidence to underpin prevention efforts remains limited, with little known about labour migrants’ migration planning processes. Using data from a surv...
Contribution Based Social Security Rules 2017 (2074) came into effect on November 2018 (2075). The Social Security Regulations provides measures for the implementation of provisions made in Social Security Act....
The Government of Nepal enacted the new Labor Rules 2075 (2018) on May 27, 2018, which are formulated under the new Labor Act 2074 (2017). The Labor Rules revoked the previous Labor Rules 2050 (1993)....
This brief describes Nepalese returnee migrant women’s international migration processes and experiences. It is based on research findings from a sample of returnee women living in Morang, Chitwan and Rupandehi, three of the districts targeted by the ILO Work in Freedom (WiF) interv...
यस जानकारी पत्रमा विदेशमा काम गरेर फर्केका नेपाली महिलाले भोगेका अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय प्रवासन प्रक्रिया र उनी�...
‘General Agreement in the Field of Manpower between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Government of Nepal’ signed on 18 October 2017....
Governing Labour Migration in Nepal looks at the legal and policy framework that regulates migrant labour originating in Nepal. It examines the country’s laws related to foreign employment, bilateral agreements signed with destination countries and international conventions ratifie...
Objectives Growing numbers of people are migrating outside their country for work, and many experience precarious conditions, which have been linked to poor physical and mental health. While international dialogue on human trafficking, forced labour and slavery increases, prevalence d...
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