The Regional Multi-Stakeholder Forum: Responsible Business Conduct for Safe Labour Migration in ASEAN was convened on 19-20 September 2018 in Pasay City, Manila, the Philippines.The Regional Multi-Stakeholder Forum: Responsible Business Conduct for Safe Labour Migration in ASEAN was convened on 19-20 September 2018 in Pasay City, Manila, the Philippines.

It was attended by participants representing the ASEAN Senior Labour  Officials Meeting (SLOM) / ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (ACMW), Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC), ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), ASEAN  Secretariat, civil society organizations (CSOs) including ASEAN CSR Network, employers’ organisations, workers’ organisations, recruitment agencies, migrant workers’ associations, think tanks, and UN Agencies namely International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN Women.

The Forum acknowledged the complementarity and mutual reinforcement of ASEAN frameworks (notably the ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant  Workers (ASEAN Consensus), ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and  Children (ACTIP), and ASEAN Guidelines for Corporate Social Responsibility on Labour) and global agendas of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in promoting responsible business conduct for safe labour migration in the region.

The Forum emphasized the importance of ensuring syncronisation of actions taken at local and national levels with ASEAN Member States’ commitments, both legally and non-legally binding, at regional and international levels.

Read the recommendations here.