Full Coverage: Migration

13.10.2008 As climate change, sea-level rise, earthquakes and floods threaten countries such as Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Vietnam and Tajikistan, the U.N. University warns that by 2050, some 200 million people will be displaced by environmental problems.

23.09.2008 The UN Children's Fund has welcomed the British government's decision to grant children seeking asylum, migrant children and those who have been trafficked into the UK the same rights as British children, including their right to education, health care and social services.

03.09.2008 Keep your eyes open for rare opening days of 19 Princelet Street, London's museum of migration, a magical unrestored Huguenot master silk weaver's home, whose shabby frontage conceals a rare surviving synagogue built over its garden. There are four chances to visit in September.

30.04.2008 A first batch of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal has landed in America. Described as one of the largest resettlement programmes in the world, the US has agreed to take in 60,000 refugees. Away from sub-human conditions in the camps, they are finding their new life both strange and full of prospects.

24.04.2008 Dr Marcella DÂ’Souza, executive director of Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) in western India, has been awarded the Indian Merchant Chambers' Woman Of The Year Award. During an interview to OneWorld South Asia, she talks of her dream where rural folk live in harmony, secure sustainable livelihoods and enjoy an enhanced quality of life.

16.04.2008 The Blue Alert campaign in five Indian coastal cities witnessed hundreds calling for government action to mitigate climate change threats. An earlier report by Greenpeace has highlighted possible displacement of over 125 million people in India and Bangladesh that puts vulnerable coastlines at risk.

03.04.2008 For people running from bullets and shells their whole lives, the idea of a peaceful future is like a mirage. With peace returning in Sri Lanka the internally displaced population are being resettled. But will they be able to live a normal life? The question lingers.

01.04.2008 In line with the policy of closing down all refugee camps in Pakistan by December next year, the government continues to send back Afghan nationals back to their country. In March alone, over 10,000 of them were repatriated. Currently, over three million registered and unregistered Afghan refugees are living in Pakistan.

27.03.2008 Greenpeace has warned that if current levels of emissions of greenhouses gases are not curtailed and global warming is not kept below 2-degree point, a major humanitarian crisis is awaiting the South Asian region. This can result in massive displacement of 125 million people in India and Bangladesh alone.

25.03.2008 Thousands of bonded labourers released from granite and marble quarries of north India have settled in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. They are now trying to rebuild their lives, free from the exploitative shackles of contractors.

14.03.2008 Lack of employment opportunities and the fear of starvation in rural areas in the wake of last yearÂ’s cyclone are forcing Bangladeshis to throng cities in search of livelihood. Most do menial jobs as loaders, and rickshaw pullers, earning barely enough to save their families from hunger back home.

19.02.2008 Afghanistan government has urged Iran not to deport its illegal migrants, as it does not have the capacity to absorb them. More than two million Afghans live in Iran, of which less than half have the status of valid refugees.

11.02.2008 Young women need to be part of an organisation to understand the 'collective consciousness', says Ruth Manorama, whose efforts have helped make a space for Dalit women in the mainstream feminist movement in India. In a close conversation, she looks back at her three decades of struggles and many victories.

06.02.2008 NepalÂ’s recent decision to resettle refugees from Bhutan in third countries is good news for over 107,000 people who have lived in camps for the last 17 years. The first groups of refugees are expected to begin departing next month.

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14.01.2008 New technological innovations in agriculture, electronics and medicine have helped boost income and reduce the number of people living in poverty, says a new World Bank report. Developing countries also need to strengthen the spread of technology through better infrastructure and improved research, the report adds.

09.12.2007 A leading Bangladeshi academic and development activist has come up with a novel way of overcoming the unwillingness of rich countries to put cash into a fund to help developing countries cope with the climatic changes produced by the greenhouse gas emissions of the industrialised world. He is proposing “villagers for carbon” swaps.

05.11.2007 Children of mothers who work overseas are most likely to be subject to Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE), says a leading child protection group in Sri Lanka. There are currently 40,000 commercial child prostitutes in the country, with most of them working in the coastal areas.

31.10.2007 Fourteen minors were recently rescued from the clutches of a sub-contractor, working for clothing giant GAP, by a local NGO in Shahpur Jaat area in the Indian capital. But what about the 100,000 child labourers still engaged in embroidery and zari sweatshops in Delhi?

25.10.2007 Following reports of tigers vanishing from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in the western state of Rajasthan, the state forest department and the Ministry of Environment and Forests have worked out voluntary relocation packages for families living in 11 villages in Sariska. The move will hopefully help bring IndiaÂ’s national animal back to the reserve.