ARTICLES, PRESS RELEASES AND NEWSLETTERS

• BAHRAIN: New deal for migrants urged.
  06/10/2009 - Activists yesterday urged employers to ensure that migrant workers are being treated fairly under the harsh conditions imposed by the global recession. The call follows a United Nations Development Pr(...) Gulf Daily News (Bahrain)

• International migration: The gender angle.
  06/10/2009 - A gender perspective on migration is important, not only in itself, but because when women migrate it can have different implications for remittances over the business cycle. C. P. Chandrasekhar and J(...) Haaretz Daily (Israel)

• Human Development Report challenges common migration misconceptions
  05/10/2009 - Allowing for migration—both within and between countries—has the potential to increase people’s freedom and improve the lives of millions around the world, according to the 2009 Human Development Repo(...) UNDP (U.S.A.)

• USA: We made them millions and they complain about it.
  21/09/2009 - Lupe Chavez, a housekeeper at the San Francisco Hilton, tells her story to David Bacon. Truthout (U.S.A.)

• Call for EU action on the situation of unaccompanied and separated children of third country origin to be recognised as a policy priority. (137kB) (PDF)
  16/09/2009 - Call for such EU action to be founded on a rights based approach. This implies that EU action affecting children in the field of asylum, migration and trafficking should consider these children as chi(...) Save the Children (U.K.)

• Understanding Irregular Migration in Northern Europe. (PDF)
  15/09/2009 - This report highlights key points of the discussion of a wide range of actors who attended a workshop within the “Clandestino” project, an interdisciplinary project funded by DG Research of the Europe(...) PICUM - Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (Belgium)

• UN human rights chief lists tackling discrimination and impunity among top priorities
  14/09/2009 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said today that the treatment of migrants is "one of the most serious human rights problems in our world today" citing the numerous deaths at sea, and(...) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Switzerland)

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