By Moses Nyirenda

Lilongwe, June 6, Mana: International Organization for Migration (IOM) has committed to supporting government in regulating issues of labour migration such promoting the welfare and human rights of Malawians working outside the country.

This comes as the government is exporting labour force to Israel on signed deal with Israel government.

IOM Immigration and Border Governance Programme Officer, Jeremiah Joshua told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Thursday in Lilongwe that as an organization they are responsible for supporting government in ensuring safety and consideration of human rights for Malawians working outside the country.

“We are responsible for making sure that while people must move to work outside the country, we guarantee safety and consideration of human rights as human beings, we guarantee that wherever people are going to work nobody should exploit them,” he said.

 Joshua added that IOM was committed to working with private recruiting agencies in the country in order for them to follow proper guidelines when they are recruiting people to work outside the country.

Recently, IOM organized validation workshop for labour migration regulation which attracted officials from Ministry of Labour, private recruiters and other concerned parties for labour migration whereby among other things they discussed issues regarding orderly labor migration.

Principal Secretary (PS) for Ministry of Labour, Chikondano Mussa applauded IOM for its commitment to supporting government in regulating labor migration.

She said that as government their focus was to ensure that there was order as well as ethical employment for people who are working abroad.

“We want to have orderly as well as ethical employment and ensure that there is dignity for the workers and also their rights are being provided at work,” Mussa said.

She commended IOM for facilitating validation of labour migration regulation saying that the validation of labour migration regulation assisted to come up with regulations aimed at governing issues of labour migration in the country.