Full Coverage: Migration

24.08.2006 DHAKA, Aug 23 (Reuters): Bangladesh on Wednesday sought international assistance, including from the United States, to help find a new home for thousands of refugees from Myanmar, saying it couldn't afford to keep them any longer. Some 21,000 Rohingya Muslims from mainly Buddhist Myanmar have been living in two camps in Cox's Bazar district, 450 km (280 miles) southeast of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka for more than a decade.

18.08.2006 Millions of tonnes of iron ore from scores of small mines that have sprung up in the onion fields around this small town in southern Karnataka state are going into building China's gleaming, steel and glass office towers and stadiums for the 2008 Olympic Games.

17.08.2006 from It's Getting Hot in Here blog:
The 250,000 climate refugees since Hurricane Katrina are an example of how global warming is forcing the U.S. coastal population to move inland, says Joe Florence.

17.08.2006 from Islands of Spice blog:
“Climate change is fueling migration and making people move to areas where other people don’t want them. And it’s all about water, and it’s all about energy.” An interview with Leslie Fields, a woman with a mission.

14.08.2006 The UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) has launched the Reference Guide on Protecting the Rights of Child Victims of Trafficking in Europe, a new tool designed specifically for use by those working to protect children victims of trafficking within the European region.

14.08.2006 Leading national and global developmental organisations have called for developing concrete measures to ensure safe labour migration across the world. This was stressed at a regional consultation organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the South Asia Regional Initiative and Equity Support Programme in the Capital where several key issues relating to the safety of migrants and natives were discussed.

01.08.2006 The new series of documentary films, titled SOS – Dossier (Violence in the Family), with authentic stories of women from Southern Serbia victims of violence, was produced by the Vranje Human Rights Committee and the department of video production of the Vranje Press Agency (AVP).