Full Coverage: Migration

30.03.2006 The city of Dubai is experienceing one of the largest construction booms in the history of the world--on the backs of migrant laborers who face abusive labor practices and squalid living conditions, according to Human Rights Watch.

29.03.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 28 (OneWorld) - The past three weeks' nationwide protests against proposed immigration reforms considered anti-immigrant mark the rise of a new American civil rights movement, say protest groups.

28.03.2006 The full US Senate is due to debate a controversial immigration reform bill that would toughen laws dealing with illegal immigrants.

28.03.2006 Many believe that the recent mass rallies across the United States in support of immigrants' rights led a Senate committee to promote an immigration reform bill Monday that--in sharp contrast to a House bill passed in December--would put migrant workers on a path to citizenship. Hispanic media outlets paved the way for the impressive show of people power.

24.03.2006 The Board of Kosovo Women Members of Parliament organized a national conference on the topic: "How are we organized to fight the trafficking with human beings in Kosovo". A number of international and local representatives and entities that work on treatment as well as fight against trafficking in human beings took part in the conference. The conference emphasized that Kosovo is moving from a transit country, which it was before the war, to a destination country of trafficking.

24.03.2006 According to the information collected by the Union of WomenÂ’s Organizations of Macedonia (SOZM), the trafficking in human beings in the country has increased over the past several years.

23.03.2006 A court ruling has awarded some 1,500 migrant workers compensation for the visa and travel fees their employers charged, which illegally dropped their wages below the federal minimum.

18.03.2006 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania has become an affiliate member of ECPAT International, a network of organisations and individuals working together to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. ECPAT it seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation.

15.03.2006 Now more than ever immigration is a family affair.

13.03.2006 Kashmiri refugees in Pakistan say that they cannot return back to their homes as their houses lie damaged and fields and lands have been devastated by landslides.

06.03.2006 A controversial bill before the U.S. Congress would authorize a 700-mile border fence between Mexico and the U.S. and criminalize immigrants, their families, and organizations that advocate on their behalf, say faith, labor and rights leaders rallying in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

01.03.2006 Britain and Canada have been singled out in an international study for failing to meet their obligations to protect victims of human trafficking.