Andy Hall - Migrant workers rights activist

Media About Me and My Work

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Main Media Citations/Quotes

2025

The Media said:

“Andy Hall has spent over 20 years investigating and exposing forced labour, human trafficking, and abuse of migrant workers, particularly across Asia, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom. His campaigning and corporate engagement on this issue have contributed significantly to accountability, government reform, and global awareness of migrant worker rights issues.”

The Media said:

“Medicerum chairman thanked migrant rights activist Andy Hall for facilitating the dialogue between the company and its Bangladeshi workers under challenging circumstances, and for Hall’s commitment to finding a fair and mutually acceptable resolution to the problem.”

Andy Hall said:

“This doesn’t cover all the workers’ costs, including interest rates of up to 30% they must pay on their loans.”

Andy Hall said:

“The Supreme Court’s final decision to reject Dyson’s appeal efforts, again seeking to deny the UK court’s jurisdiction in the migrant workers’ forced labour claim against them, is another moment of hope for vulnerable foreign workers looking to hold big businesses accountable in the English courts.”

Andy Hall said:

“This decision sends a strong message: companies can’t avoid responsibility by outsourcing to countries where migrant workers struggle to access justice. Despite long delays, the UK justice system hasn’t disappointed these workers.”

Andy Hall said:

“The sum is to cover the extortionate fees charged by recruitment intermediaries, including Malaysian security agents and Nepali manpower agents.”

The Media said:

“A migrant worker recruitment syndicate has become active again and may block efforts to reform the hiring of Bangladeshi and Nepali workers when Malaysia reopens the intake of foreign workers, according to a migrant rights activist. Andy Hall said the syndicate is believed to have some control over the recruitment and management of foreign workers in Malaysia and caused serious problems for Bangladeshi workers between 2022 and 2024.”

Andy Hall said:

“Each major glove company uses millions of moulds every year, so there is a need to ask for evidence of the conditions under which these moulds are made,”

2024

The Media said:

“Migrant labour rights activist Andy Hall said the government’s failure to check the authenticity of companies that apply to recruit foreign workers had also contributed to the problem. However, he said, the real issue was the government’s failure to combat the organised crime network trafficking Bangladeshi workers into forced labour in Malaysia.”

The Media said:

“Independent migrant worker rights specialist Andy Hall described the government-mediated settlement as “offensive and inadequate”

The Media said:

“Lawyer Andy Hall, who has worked on labour rights in Asia for more than 10 years, has proposed roundtable talks between brands, factory owners and workers’ representatives.”

Andy Hall said:  

“The Appeal Court’s decision to accept jurisdiction in the migrant workers’ forced labour claim against Dyson means the workers now have an important legal channel to pursue their claim”

Andy Hall said:

“Hopefully a sign the company, and Shimano, are willing to accept responsibility for the alleged wrongdoing that has occurred here”.

Andy Hall said: 

“Despite this important licence revocation, which resulted from the Guardian’s groundbreaking investigation and media coverage, no one has received any remediation for vulnerable migrant victims.

The Media said:

“Andy Hall, a labour rights activist who is supporting the Indonesian workers, said UK companies are increasingly turning to migrant workers because of Brexit.”

Andy Hall says: 

“This scandal shows once again that the entire burden of shouldering the multiple risks associated with the seasonal workers scheme in the UK is placed not on supermarkets, farms, scheme operators or other supply chain actors but on vulnerable workers from overseas.”

The Media said:

“Migrant worker rights specialist Andy Hall closely monitored the situation in Malaysia and said last year that workers’ testimonies met several of the ILO indicators of forced labour and were ‘akin to modern slavery”.

Andy Hall said:

“Based on years of unsuccessfully engaging the Malaysian government on cases of alleged human trafficking and forced labour, I strongly disagree with today’s tier 2 upgrade for the country”

The Media said: 

“Andy Hall, a migrant rights activist working on labor migration in Southeast Asia, told UCA News that high recruitment costs remain the main culprit behind migrant workers’ exploitation.”

The Media says:

“Independent migrant worker rights specialist Andy Hall said the failure of the Malaysian and Bangladesh governments to respond to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ communications within the 60-day timeline points to a lack of accountability, and might be taken to suggest that they endorse human trafficking.”

Andy Hall says: 

“Based on many years of unsuccessfully engaging the Malaysian government on these and many other similar cases of alleged human trafficking and forced labour, I conclude that a failed migrant work management and recruitment system continues to exist in the country that promotes impunity, is devoid of the rule of law and is systemically corrupt.”

The Media said:

“The Fair Labor Association (FLA) has joined with Andy Hall, an international migrant worker rights specialist with deep knowledge of responsible recruitment programs across Asia, to develop guidance for the industry, highlighting industry responsible recruitment challenges, and provide guidance for overcoming these challenges. We hope this document is a helpful resource for companies/buyers and other stakeholders as they work to eradicate recruitment fees for workers and promote decent work in global supply chains.”

The Media said:

“Migrant rights activist Andy Hall says Malaysia’s failure to tackle labour trafficking could lead to a drop to Tier 3 in the upcoming US TIP report.”

The Media said:

“Migrant labour rights activist Andy Hall has expressed concern over the government’s announcement that foreign workers without proper papers may return home without facing legal action under the migrant repatriation programme from now until Dec 31.”

The Media said:

“NGOs and activist Andy Hall recently claimed that 10,000 passports belonging to FGV workers were being held by immigration pending the renewal of their work permits.”

The Media said:

“NGOs and activist Andy Hall recently claimed that 10,000 passports belonging to FGV workers were being held by immigration pending the renewal of their work permits.”

Andy Hall said:

“This high profile Pengerang abuse case required a deterrent kind of settlement within the justice and law enforcement systems to show the government and judiciary took seriously its duty to crack down on this organised crime syndicate that is trafficking Bangladeshi victims into Malaysia. This result is not the strong punishment against the perpetrators that was committed by the ministers in the latest joint press conference,”

Andy Hall said:

“I would say at least one lakh Bangladeshis have become jobless as per the information of the home minister. Because, after reopening the labour market for Bangladeshi workers, around 60% of total recruitment came from the south Asian nation.”

2023

The Media said:

“This comes after migrant rights activist Andy Hall wrote to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on workers allegedly caught in debt bondage after being abandoned without jobs.”

Andy Hall said:

“Migrant workers migrating to dangerous conflict zones in search of work, with little protection and legal enforcement, has been a big issue for decades”

The Media said:

“In the report, migrant rights activist Andy Hall said a worrying number of Bangladeshi workers were left high and dry upon arrival in Malaysia.”

The Media said:

“According to Andy Hall, another matter of concern is that the number of Bangladeshis entering the country far exceeds other nationalities coming to Malaysia to work.”

The Media said:

“In a strikingly similar case, a pineapple processing company in southern Thailand filed multiple criminal and civil charges against British labour activist Andy Hall in 2013 over a report he helped research which alleged that the company had mistreated its workers.

The trials and appeals went back and forth, alternately finding Mr Hall guilty and not guilty, sometimes overturning these verdicts, for seven years, eventually forcing the activist to leave Thailand because he said the endless court appearances were preventing him from working.”

Andy Hall said:

“The farms, supermarkets, recruiters and law enforcement in both countries needed to make a concerted effort to address the allegations. 

Passing the buck and claiming a lack of primary remit or responsibility for solving these cross-border issues by any of these actors in either country must stop.” 

Andy Hall said:

“Migrant workers are too often excluded and forgotten from most global conversations about the climate crisis even though they are clearly one of the most vulnerable groups at risk,”

The Media said:

“The high profile case of Andy Hall, a workers rights campaigner who was sued by a fruit company, definitely sent a chilling message to anyone trying to expose firms abusing their workers.”

In the below articles, Andy Hall said:

“These workers are at high risk of forced labour and severe destitution,”

Andy Hall said: 

“Thousands of vulnerable workers have faced conditions akin to forced labour and debt bondage due to the negligence of seasonal worker scheme operators, including AG Recruitment, the broader framework of a failing seasonal worker scheme and sponsorship licence system, as well as the failures of the UK’s largest retailers and farms to protect this essential workforce from such abuses.”

Andy Hall said:

“The demand for workers is generally sold to the highest manpower agent bidder and given so many agents and much competition in Nepal, the cost is now usually in excess of Rs300,000 per worker,”

Andy Hall said:

“So many fake social media posts encouraging Nepali workers to seek job opportunities in the UK.”

Andy Hall said:

“If the seasonal work scheme operators have decided not to source any workers from Nepal, and that includes not bringing back the old workers, many of whom didn’t get six months of work last year and were promised 2023 work to pay off their past debts, it really would be terrible” 

2022

Andy Hall said: 

“If the scheme is rapidly expanded, the modern slavery risk really increases, particularly the risk of debt bondage. There needs to be a simultaneous increase in regulation and enforcement if they’re going to increase the number of workers because even now the scheme is failing to protect them.”

Andy Hall said:

“The farms, supermarkets, recruiters and law enforcement in both countries needed to make a concerted effort to address the allegations.”

Andy Hall said: 

“It seems the GLAA, Home Office, [Foreign Office] and also UK government officials working in overseas UK embassies have no remit or authority to actually monitor or investigate potential or real recruitment abuses in the source countries of workers migrating to the UK for work.”

The Media said:

“Despite Malaysia being relatively economically advanced, its migration, labour and employment policies continue to mirror that of developing countries”

The Media said:

“Andy Hall, an independent labour activist who has investigated Brightway, said factories should not be the only players penalised for labour violations”

Andy Hall said:

“If 6,000 Nepali workers of Top Glove get around $1,500 each, that’s $9million dollars”

The Media said:

“Labour rights activist Andy Hall, who filed the petition to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to investigate Supermax, has said his interviews with the firm’s workers showed the workers paid high recruitment fees – which resulted in debt bondage – faced unlawful wage deductions and lived in cramped conditions.”

The Media said:

“Central Medicare also explained how it is currently identifying former workers, with the help of its recently contracted adviser, Andy Hall, to secure their reimbursements. It raised its basic wage to 1,300 ringgit from the country’s minimum wage, 1,200 ringgit, starting from January 2022, an 8 percent basic wage increase.”

The Media said:

“Andy Hall, a migrant workers’ rights specialist, first brought the workers’ complaints to Dyson’s attention in 2019. A Dyson representative said on a Channel 4 program that the company conducted six audits of ATA between November 2019 and June 2021. The final in-depth audit conducted by ELEVATE reportedly identified major forced labor risks. To date, none of these audit reports have been made public. The company representative said that they were proactively working to drive improvements in the factory and took the “ultimate sanction” of terminating the contract with ATA “when it was not making improvements in a timely manner.” 

The Media said:

“Between 2019 and 2021, Andy Hall, a labour rights activist in south east Asia, received repeated complaints from whistleblowers about forced working conditions at ATA and contacted Dyson to raise the alarm.”

The Media said:

“Labour rights activist Andy Hall, who filed the petition to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to investigate Supermax, has said his interviews with the firm’s workers showed the workers paid high recruitment fees – which resulted in debt bondage – faced unlawful wage deductions and lived in cramped conditions.”

Andy Hall said:

“Letters were issued to the workers on Friday, in which the company also agreed to part-recompensation of recruitment fees the workers had paid to agents and interest on past recruitment fees”

2021

The Media said:

“VS INDUSTRY Bhd has changed all id activist Andy Hall.ts migrant workers hired through a recalibration programme to direct employment following its engagement with labour rights activist Andy Hall.”

Andy Hall Said: 

“According to recent US customs records, Brightway Group is a significant supplier of gloves to both Ansell and Kimberly Clarke Corporation (KCC), two of the world’s largest gloves and personal care companies to whom I have also complained about appalling conditions at Brightway Group since early 2020,” 

Andy Hall said: 

“The risks of a failed or corrupt recruitment process to Malaysia’s government and industry reputation at this time, already reeling from U.S. forced labour sanctions and a blackened image globally, are real,”

The Media said:

“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) opened an investigation into ATA in April over unethical recruitment practices and poor working and living conditions, according to independent labour rights activist Andy Hall, who sought the inquiry. He showed Reuters a letter dated April 19 from the agency informing him of the investigation. CBP declined to comment.”

The Media said:

“The activist, Andy Hall, shared a letter the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had sent him informing him it had agreed to investigate an ATA unit after he flagged complaints received from workers.”

Andy Hall said:

“That’s a big contract, These purchasing practices are contributing to modern slavery practices in Malaysia.”

The Media said:

“From rock bottom four years ago, much of Malaysia’s glove industry has embarked on efforts to achieve greater transparency and better conditions”

Andy Hall said:

“I welcome the decision to lift the ban in light of the considerable improvements in foreign workers living and working conditions at Top Glove”.

Andy Hall said:

“He welcomed the decision to lift the ban “in light of the considerable improvements in foreign workers’ living and working conditions at Top Glove.”

The Media said:

“Citing evidence gathered from labour rights activist Andy Hall, the report alleges that workers are being duped with false contracts, are paying extortionate recruitment fees and are at risk of bearing the cost for quarantine on arrival in Qatar. It references several advertisements for recruitment to World Cup contractors Urbacon Trading & Contracting (UCC), Al Jaber and Galfar Al Misnad that do not comply with the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy’s ethical recruitment standards.”

Andy Hall said:

“We’ve seen so many of the workers in the industry during the COVID working every single day, so they’ve been working in excess of what’s allowed under Malaysian law and definitely what’s allowed under international standards,”

Andy Hall said:

“I crucially continue to engage IOI directly on specific issues of concern relating to forced labour risks in its operations,” 

The Media said:

“Migrant rights activist Andy Hall told Reuters he had petitioned the CBP over concerns of forced labour indications in IOI’s operations, as alleged by the workers.”

Andy Hall said:

“I crucially continue to engage IOI directly on specific issues of concern relating to forced labour risks in its operations”

The Media said:

“The Edge cited two letters sent by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to labour rights activist Andy Hall, who petitioned the agency to investigate the firms. In both letters, the CBP said it has sufficient information to “investigate the merits” of Hall’s allegations,” 

The Media said:

“U.S. Customs is examining forced labour allegations including debt bondage, excessive overtime and poor accommodation, according to a letter the agency sent to Nepal-based independent labour rights activist Andy Hall after he drew the agency’s attention to details in the audit report. Reuters reviewed a copy of the letter.”

Andy Hall said:

“Top Glove remains an unethical company which prioritizes profits and production efficiency over the welfare and basic rights of its workers.”

CNN, March 30, 2021 – US will seize all Top Glove imports after finding ‘sufficient evidence’ of forced labour

Andy Hall said:
 
“CBP’s decision should be a wake-up call to the rest of Malaysia’s rubber gloves industry because much more needs to be done to combat the systemic forced labor of foreign workers that remains endemic in factories across Malaysia.”

Andy Hall said:

“CBP decision should be a “wake-up call” to labour-intensive industries, the government and customers. Top Glove’s investors now urgently need to be held to account also as it is the company’s owners and investors who have profited most handsomely from this failure to combat forced labour,”

Andy Hall said:

“Activists from NGOs, trade unions and community groups need to be able to undertake their important and independent work in promoting responsible corporate conduct in societies across the world, without fear of legal action.

Companies that are receptive to constructive criticism and seek to engage openly and transparently with civil society actors, whatever their views, will surely have available to them stronger and more sustainable due diligence processes to combat human rights risks in their operations and supply chains in the long run, than those that engage in litigation.

Specifically, SPD can also now re-focus its efforts on ensuring that any indicators of forced labour amongst its own foreign workforce are investigated and remediated in a worker-centric and fully transparent way.

As this legal action for discovery has now been withdrawn, I have decided to continue to work alongside the SDP Board and Impactt as a member of SDP’s Expert Stakeholder Human Rights Assessment Commission, in contributing to support further moves by SDP towards a situation where it’s operations are considered free of systemic forced labour as soon as possible.”

Andy Hall said:

 “Nepal and Qatar’s governments need to urgently come with a transparent, legal and ethical agreement that ensures the upcoming increase in recruitment of security personnel needed for the FIFA World Cup 2022 can be undertaken in a way that prevents the systemic extortion of the candidates involved. Recruitment must be legal and ethical with all costs borne by the Qatari state or Qatari employers.”

2020

Andy Hall said:

“Migrant workers across Asia continue to remain at high risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19 due to their inability to practice social distancing both at their labor intensive workplaces and at their crowded and often insanitary living accommodation,”

Andy Hall said:

“The U.S. sanctions are translating into real impact and real money into workers’ pockets in remediation and remedy, which is really important.”

Andy Hall said:

“To hire foreign laborers, Malaysian rubber glove companies rely on recruitment agencies and subagents in the workers’ home countries, with whom they sign contracts containing hiring targets, sometimes through another layer of intermediary agencies located in Malaysia”

“There is often a single bathroom and toilet for up to 25 workers, so they have to get up 2 or 3 hours before work to queue up for these facilities”.

Andy Hall said:

“These laws can easily be used maliciously or inappropriately in a variety of ways. No one wins from this situation where expensive cases drag on for years thereby also clogging up the court systems.”

Andy Hall said:

“There would be close monitoring by multiple stakeholders across [Top Glove] sites to see whether orders are shifted to get around the CBP. 

Top Glove will find it hard to sidestep the impact of the ban given the severity of the challenges facing the company’s reputation now.”

Andy Hall said:

“It’s a terrible situation. Many people come to Malaysia from Bangladesh owing up to US$5000 in recruitment fees, from Myanmar and Nepal owing US$1000 or US$1500. This means they can work for months, or sometimes years, just to pay back that debt.” 

Andy Hall said:

“Forced foreign labour in Malaysia’s gloves industry could only be addressed and reduced when past recruitment fees and related costs, which hold such workers in debt bondage, are fully repaid.

In order to ensure no future debt bondage of these workers, ethical recruitment practices or zero cost recruitment policies should be put in place in practice, if the industry moves ahead to recruit more foreign workers in the future,”

Andy Hall said:

“It’s a very risky situation. These hostels are not designed with a decent way of living in mind. They’re incredibly congested.”    

Andy Hall said:

“Most of the workers who are producing the gloves that are essential in the global COVID-19 endemic are still at high risk of forced labor, often in debt bondage,”  

2019

Andy Hall said:

“So they’re quite tense. It’s clear that, I think, it’s going to be a lot better than in the past because everyone’s focusing on this now after the last scandal, when workers were … having to pay up to $5,000 each.”

“Forced labor remains systemic throughout Malaysia’s manufacturing sector. I helped with the U.S. probe of WRP and was told by U.S. authorities that several more Malaysian companies in the rubber glove industry and others, more than a dozen in all, were under investigation for possible withhold release orders. They’re investigating so many cases in Malaysia, and the pressure is on.

The import ban on WRP was meant to put the rest of the industry on notice. What WRP will find now is when they negotiate with U.S. authorities to try to lift the ban, the U.S. authorities will be saying to them, ‘But all these workers are in debt bondage, and so the only way that you can get them out of debt bondage and hence out of forced labor is to pay back the money.’ And so once WRP realized that, the message will start going through the industry,”

Andy Hall said:

“Workers at WRP and many other rubber glove factories have been forced to pay staggering fees as high as $5,000 in their home countries, including Bangladesh and Nepal, for jobs that don’t meet their promise.

Some of the rubber glove makers don’t pay workers for months, house them in unkempt and overcrowded conditions, hold their passports so they can’t leave and don’t allow them to quit.

CBP’s detention orders fired a starting gun to warn both Malaysian and Thai governments that rubber manufactured products like gloves, condoms, medical equipment as well as an array of other labor intensive products from the region that are currently manufactured using systemic migrant forced labor cannot be exported to the US.”

Andy Hall said:

“The death sentence against the two accused and their conviction should be reversed and quashed.”

Andy Hall said:

“My activism for over a decade in Thailand intended only to promote and uphold the fundamental rights of millions of migrant workers in the country.”

2018

Andy Hall said:

“The Myanmar brokers, or their sub-agents, scour rural villages for workers and transfer all the extra costs to them, leaving migrants trapped in “debt bondage” as they struggle to pay the exorbitant fees”

The media said:

“Andy Hall’s protracted legal battle stemmed from a 2013 report that alleged labour abuses at Natural Fruit’s pineapple canning operation.”

The media said:

“Andy Hall was taken to court in one of a series of lawsuits relating to alleged human rights abuses by Natural Fruit.

A court in the Thai capital has ordered a British labour rights activist to pay 10 million baht (£226,000) in damages to a company which filed a civil defamation suit after he helped expose alleged human rights violations at its factory.”

2017

Andy Hall said:

“The mass movement leaves undocumented workers vulnerable. It’s clear to me tens of thousands of migrants only move like this after instigation. Despite the threat of punishment, corrupt officials would try to seek bribes and mass profit is to be made in a short time from the panic and commotion.” 

The Media said:

“The mass movement leaves undocumented workers vulnerable, said Andy Hall, a British specialist in migrant workers’ rights who has monitored such migration in Thailand for more than a decade. ‘It’s clear to me tens of thousands of migrants only move like this after instigation,’ Hall, who has worked extensively with Myanmar workers, told Reuters.

Despite the threat of punishment, “corrupt officials” would try to take bribes from fleeing migrants, he said. ‘Mass profit is to be made in a short time from the panic and commotion,’ Hall added.”

Andy Hall said:

“We believe this negotiation will be successful and lead to a trickle-down effect where other employees will be empowered and feel confident to organise and collectively bargain to make demands of their employers,”

2016

Andy Hall said:

“We’re trying to hold Betagro responsible for the system of contract farming,” he said. “If we can, it will have huge implications for contract farming and the responsibility of corporate supply chains across Thailand.”

Andy Hall said:

“The policies of the Myanmar government have not contributed to safe migration at all – if anything they were complicit. The NLD government was very willing to change these policies, but we see huge challenges: the military controls the Home Affairs Ministry and holds veto power over many migration issues.”

The Media said:

“However, Andy Hall, a British lawyer and migrant activist, said Thailand had made ‘some significant improvements’ last year, and putting the nation on Tier 2 ranking could give authorities the chance to show a commitment to combating trafficking. ‘If there is no further significant progress during this one year or if developments backtrack or slow, it could and should be back to Tier 3,’ Hall said.”

Andy Hall said:  

“In 2012, she gave a promise to the workers … that she would support them, both to return to Myanmar but also to have a better life here,”

Andy Hall said:

“100 percent of the costs of recruitment is falling on workers. This is completely unacceptable. Companies should be paying to recruit workers, or at least they should be taking a very fair share of the burden,”

“It’s the main issue leading to human trafficking, debt bondage and slavery these days,”

Andy Hall said:

“Certainly there seems to have been a lot of changes. But whether that’s led to some kind of reduction in exploitation is very difficult to say. I mean we see the policies that are coming out from the government that are really not making much sense in terms of having a long term migration policy that promotes human security. So we’re still very skeptical that there has been significant improvements.”

The Media said:

“Andy Hall is waiting for his meditation class to begin in a Bangkok hospital as we talk over Skype, and our conversation is occasionally interrupted by fast-talking Thai voices. Hall answers my questions calmly. The human rights defender doesn’t seem like a man carrying the weight of multiple prosecutions and the possibility of seven years in a Thai prison.”

2015

Aljazeera, August 24, 2015: Thailand indicts rights worker over labour abuse report

The Media said:

“Andy Hall, 35, could face up to seven years in prison if found guilty of criminal defamation by publication and offences under the country’s Computer Crimes Act.”

The Media said:

“We are innocent and we were not involved in this horrific crime, we didn’t kill. We want freedom, the duo was quoted in a statement released by Andy Hall, a British human rights defender based in Thailand, after he visited them in prison”

2014

Andy Hall said:

“They’ve come out with this commission saying that they are setting up this commission to address migration issues. I mean I think it is a good thing because migration as a policy in Thailand has been absolutely chaotic. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have been left with without any policy,”

2012

The Media said:

Andy Hall, a migrant specialist at Mahidol University’s Migration Center, said brokers charge $600 or more to process the paperwork, costing months’ worth of wages.

“So, whereas the migrants become legal through this process, the costs are very exorbitant,” said Hall. “And, what we’ve seen is, we’ve seen a shift from like this informal corruption by police officers, who are shaking down workers, immigration officials and labor officials, who are taking money from workers. We’ve seen a shift from that to this irregulated broker system whereby brokers who are in charge of national verification process, who are in charge of issuing passports, are now getting money through these vulnerable migrants through these other means.”

Andy Hall Said:

“About 2.5 million people from Myanmar work in Thailand, often in low-paid jobs, contributing as much as 7 percent of Thailand’s G.D.P.”

2011

Andy Hall said:

“Why are the migrant [workers] staying there? They are staying there because maybe they do not understand the situation, maybe they are scared because the do not have documents, maybe they are being coerced to stay in their communities there are mafia [style] organizations in those areas who want to prevent undocumented workers coming in contact with authorities.”    

2010

Andy Hall said:

“The need for labor is there; it’s there and the workers need to be in the country. But the system for managing that is a real failure at the moment. It’s not been well thought out,” said Hall. “And when you have system failures, you don’t have good planning, you don’t have sustainable management of migration, then you’re going to see human rights abuses like we’re seeing at the moment.”  ,

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