Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Rapport/communiqué de presse

Bitter Harvest: Exploitation and Forced Labour of Migrant Agricultural Workers in South Korea

Date

2014

Auteurs

Amnesty International, International Secretariat

Résumé

As of 2013, around 250,000 migrant workers were employed in the Republic of Korea
(South Korea) under the Employment Permit System (EPS). Since the establishment of the
EPS ten years ago, Amnesty International has repeatedly raised concerns on how this work
scheme directly contributes to human and labour rights violations by severely restricting
migrant workers’ ability to change jobs and challenge abusive practices by employers.
Similar concerns have also been raised by a number of UN bodies,2 but the South Korean
government has consistently failed to implement their recommendations. As a consequence,
a significant number of migrant workers continue to be regularly exposed to serious
exploitation, which includes excessive working hours, unpaid overtime, denial of rest days and breaks, threats, violence, trafficking and forced labour Following Amnesty International’s previous research on the EPS in 2006 and 2009,3
this
report focuses on migrant agricultural workers, who account for some 8% of all EPS workers.4
Agriculture is one of the sectors with the least legal safeguards and, consequently, migrant
workers in this sector are at greater risk of exploitation and abuse.

Numéro de document

ASA 25/004/2014

Number of pages

87

Institution responsable

Amnesty International, International Secretariat

Lieu de publication

London, UK

Fichiers joints

Liens

Mots-clés

Underpayment, Late payment, Denial of Leave, Excessive hours

Secteurs économiques

Agriculture and horticulture workers et Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general

Types de contenu

Policy analysis, Cas d’abus documentés, Statistics on work and life conditions, Current Policy, Numbers of migrant workers et Systemic/state violation of right/freedom

Groupes cibles

Législateurs et Sensibilisation du public

Pertinence géographique

South Korea

Langues

Anglais