African Union advances continental framework for safe labour migration

The AU's labour migration framework gains binding protocols on recruitment standards, aiming to protect the continent's fast-growing migrant workforce.

African Union member states agreed binding protocols on ethical recruitment and portable social protections, responding to documented abuse of African migrant workers in Gulf domestic work and European agriculture.

The framework establishes a continental register of licensed recruiters and a mutual recognition system for complaints, giving origin states leverage they have lacked in bilateral negotiations.