Full Coverage: Migration

25.09.2006 A meeting organized by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Presence in Albania, aims to promote partnerships between anti-trafficking and Roma non-governmental organizations to better fight the increasing phenomenon of trafficking in Roma across Europe.

15.09.2006 Ministry of labour has opened a multilingual site that provides information for employers hiring foreigners and foreigners coming to work in Finland or already living in Finland. The material explains the rules of working life, permits needed to work in Finland and the Finnish working culture.

12.09.2006 This year's report, A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, highlights the diverse experiences of women migrants and emphasizes the need for migration laws and policies that safeguard the rights of women and support their needs for health care and other essential services.

07.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 7 (OneWorld) - Thousands of Latino community leaders from across the country convened in Los Angeles Wednesday for what organizers say is the first massive gathering of Latino community leaders, organizations, and elected officials since 1977.

07.09.2006 Governments must do more to address the human rights violations and lack of opportunities that force women and girls, who make up half the worldÂ’s 95 million migrants, to leave their homes, while countries need to work together to make migration safer and in particular stamp out human trafficking, according to new reports issued today by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

07.09.2006 Dominican Republic women who migrated abroad to earn more money were empowered by their new roles as household breadwinners and decision-makers but were still expected to conform to traditional gender roles, according to a study released today by the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).

07.09.2006 Women constitute almost half of all global migrants worldwide — 95 million or 49.6 per cent — yet, it is only recently that the international community has begun to recognise their contribution to the economy and social well-being of populations living in both the origin and receiving countries and the challenges women confront in the new land.

04.09.2006 Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rucker today welcomed the commencement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of specialized medical treatment for lead toxicity for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of the Roma-Ashkali-Egyptian (RAE) communities.