Aswathy Krishna Koikkaramparambil

Project Coordinator, Centre for Indian Migrant Studies
India
Aswathy is a Project Coordinator at CIMS. Aswathy has been working with the issues of the migrants from India to the Middle East countries and taking up issues through a television program –Pravasalokam. She has also been conducting a survey on general conditions of returnee migrant women domestic workers. Aswathy hopes this DTP course will help to improve her knowledge on international human rights perspectives and will also provide an opportunity to interact with others fighting for this cause. , Aswathy works to protect the rights of Indian migrants in the Middle-East and of migrant domestic workers when they return back to India. Her organisation has pioneered a groundbreaking approach of using television to document stories of the missing and to reconnect and reunite them with their families. The television program – Pravasalokam – is widely broadcast in the Middle-East and it is used to local the missing – and to inform migrants of their rights and relevant developments. It takes up issues including trafficking, like confiscation of documents, discrimination, inaccessibility to food and water, and abuses. Aswathy also registers grievances to Madad, an Online Grievances portal by the Government of India. Aswathy believes the DTP program will improve her knowledge in the field of International human rights perspectives and help her bring new strategies to his work on issues of migrants and human rights of migrants.

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