The Chinese government has implemented a whole raft of policies over the last decade to improve the lives of migrant workers’ children. However, a new survey published by the All-China Women’s Federation shows that between 2005 and 2010, the numbers of left-behind children and migrant children in the cities both increased, while the long-standing issues of separation, loneliness and vulnerability, as well as the lack of access to decent education, healthcare and social services remained largely unresolved.

A Chinese province is likely to abolish mandatory HIV tests for teachers, state media said Tuesday, making it the first region on the mainland to eliminate the measures long-branded as discriminatory.

The vast majority of China’s public institutions (事业单位) blatantly discriminate against job applicants from outside their local area, the Legal Daily reported today.

Bangladesh currently gives its workers and their families a fixed lump sum for workplace accidents regardless of crucial factors like a worker's loss of potential earning and an employer's extent of responsibility. Most companies also do not insure their workers against workplace injury and death. Labour activists demand that a dead worker's family be compensated an amount equal to his lifetime's earnings. And according to the International Labour organisation, an injured worker is entitled to 60 percent of his prior earnings as periodical payment for temporary or permanent disability.