DUSHANBE, April 17, 2009, Asia-Plus — Some 30,000 anticrisis jobs have been created in Tajikistan for returning labor migrants, deputy chairperson of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), Ms. Shujoat Hasanova, told reporters yesterday following the regional parliamentary on labor migration that was organized in Dushanbe jointly organized by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) and Tajikistan”s Parliament with the support of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.
According to her, 180,000 new jobs are scheduled to be created in the country this year.
Discussions focused on the effects of the financial crisis on labor migration in the region, managing labor migration regionally and combating trafficking in human beings. The seminar also touched on other topics such as legislative reforms and regional frameworks, policies of host countries and protecting workers” rights. Legislators from several OSCE participating States, including Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Finland, Norway, Poland, France and Germany, took part in the seminar.
