Full Coverage: Migration

27.12.2005 Managing director of Parwaz Microfinance Institute Katrin Fakiri said that institutions of microfinance would greatly affect business of the usurers and would also help in protecting women from forced marriages.

19.12.2005 According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and return to his country." Sunday marked International Migrants' Day; learn about this fundamental freedom and what it means to immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and others.

16.12.2005 A renewed call for universal ratification and implementation of the UN Migrant Workers Convention - which emphasises the human rights of migrant workers and their families and underlines the fundamental principle of non-discrimination - is made on the occasion of International Migrants Day on Sunday.

15.12.2005 Nearly 600,000 Sri Lankan women work as domestic servants in other countries. However, the lure of substantial earnings and freedom from povery leaves their children vulnerable to child abuse, incest and other expolitation. Dumeetha Luthra for BBC News, Colombo...

14.12.2005 Goran Svilanovic, the Chair of the First Table of the Stability Pact for SEE, said that the so-called “Schengen Wall” is the biggest barrier in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

14.12.2005 "Blank Face, Public Strength: Romani Identity as Represented
in the Public and Private Sphere," researched and written by Azbija Memedova (Macedonia) and Shayna Plaut (United States of America) argues that the search for a singular identity begins with the wrong premise – it is not whether Roma have a "weak" or "strong" identity but rather, who they should be "proving" this identity to, and under what standards.

14.12.2005 HONG KONG (Reuters) - While the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong this week may hold promises of more free trade and a better livelihood for mainstream society, for some, it is a matter of life and death.

10.12.2005 Remittances from the world's 200 million overseas migrants are now almost triple the value of all official aid and form the second-largest source of external funding for developing countries after foreign investment, according to a new report by a global commission set up by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

08.12.2005 NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 7: After several studies, reports and even lobbying by MPs and states, the Planning Commission is finally ready with the list of 200 districts where the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the UPAÂ’s showpiece legislation, will be implemented.

07.12.2005 Discussion on the "devastating" rise in recruitment of health professionals from developing countries to work in Britain, 19 December, London.

06.12.2005 Addressing the inaugural session of the three-day informative meet titled "UN's Millennium Development Goal for gender equality and women empowerment" Judge Mohan Prasad Ghimire of the Appellate Court of Pokhara has said around 7,000 women are being trafficked from Nepal every year.

05.12.2005 Uttar Pradesh has been a beneficiary of our obsession with Bihar. As in Bihar, the state has withered away in many parts of UP, especially the eastern districts, without anybody noticing it.

02.12.2005 Regional integration and cooperation in South Asia can become a reality if developmental issues are given primary importance. Issues like intra-regional trade can be taken up as secondary concerns for facilitating investment and helping development process.