Full Coverage: Migration

28.06.2005 Over one half of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina would leave the country for good and move to another country, should they get an opportunity, shows the poll conducted by UNDP B&H, prepared under the Quarterly Early Warning System.

27.06.2005 Internally displaced Egyptians living in Rozaje, Montenegro appealed today on national and local governments, NGOs and all other competent institutions for immediate assistance.

23.06.2005 Organisée par Solidarité sans frontières, un réseau montréalais de comités autonomes de migrant-es, de réfugié-es, d’immigrant-es et d'allié-es, la marche Personne n'est illégal! sur Ottawa a lieu du du 19 au 25 juin 2005.

23.06.2005 A report by the International Organization for Migration says that the movement of workers around the world boosts economies in both the new adoptive homelands and migrantsÂ’ native countries, countering the view of Western governments that migrants take away jobs and cause tax hikes.

23.06.2005 The United States has historically been a haven for those fleeing persecution from their own countries. But since 9-11 the U.S. acceptance rate has dropped by more than half as the government seems to have forgotten the distinction between refugees and terrorists, says Tram Nguyen, who once found refuge in the United States from a troubled Vietnam.

20.06.2005 While the violence in Iraq continues to garner attention, the situation in Haiti--where the Bush administration also played a key role in creating regime change--is going from bad to desperate, reports Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service.

15.06.2005 The government is under attack from all sides for its denial of human rights to asylum-seekers and migrants. Whilst the issue of detention tends to capture the headlines, the progressive withdrawal of legal aid over the last 12 months has persuaded many law firms to abandon this area of work.

07.06.2005 The Department of State is required by law to submit a report each year to the U.S. Congress on foreign governmentsÂ’ efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons.

03.06.2005 Kosovo doesn't intend to introduce any restrictions or visa regime to Macedonia, UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] Head Soren Jessen-Petersen said late Wednesday [1 June] at a working supper with Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski.

01.06.2005 The majority of youth in Serbia believes that their status wonÂ’t change in the next two years. Approximately two thirds of the polled would leave Serbia for good, were they given a chance, while one third doesnÂ’t think they would be able to find a job corresponding to their education. These are the results from the survey conducted by the Youth Coalition.