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NEW YORK: This year, International Migrants Day has a special poignancy to it. The millions who were forced by conflict and economic hardship to abandon their homes, family and friends in 2020 have done so amid a pandemic that has made visible the world’s deep-seated inequalities. From braving harsh winters in makeshift camps to venturing into the sea looking for a safe haven in foreign lands, the most vulnerable are too often left to fend for themselves. “Millions upon millions of people h...

Editor — December 19, 2020 comments off The African Migration Observatory was inaugurated, on Friday, December 18, 2020, in Rabat, at the proposition of HM King Mohammed VI, in His capacity as African Leader on the issue of migration, with the aim to develop a process for collecting, analysing and sharing information between African countries in this area. The opening ceremony was chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad Mr. Nasser Bourita, the Comm...

Vatican: Coronavirus Should Not Take Attention Away from Migrants 18 Dec 2020 ROME — “The pandemic must not make us forget other dramatic situations, such as violence and abuses against migrants,” said Father Fabio Baggio of the Vatican’s office for Migrants and Refugees in an interview with Vatican News Friday. Commemorating the U.N.’s International Migrants Day Friday, Father Baggio said that “a whole series of dramas that existed before the pandemic are still there and some are e...

Pakistan seeks enhanced International cooperation for well-being of migrants December 18, 2020 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Joining the International Community in the observance of International Migrants Day on Friday, Pakistan has sought greater solidarity among Countries by strengthening cooperation to enhance the protection, well-being, working conditions, and effective integration of migrants in addition to ensuring that in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, no one is left behind. In a statemen...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS in their diaspora are demanding £1 billion in reparations for the loss of their living from fishing that resulted from their forcible eviction. Over five years in the sixties and seventies the entire population of the Chagos Island were expelled from their homeland by the British colonial authorities acting at the behest of the United States. This brutal act of dispossession which sent the inhabitants of this Indian Ocean island into exile started in 1968, and by 1973 — wh...

Opportunity to Learn Lessons for Future An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020.  © Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan) – An Italian program to provide undocumented migrants with a pathway to residency adopted amid the Covid-19 pandemic did not live up to its promise, Human Rights Watch said today. It is too early to know how many people will ultimately benefit ...

Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2020: Assessing Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration Format Migrants in Asia and the Pacific at Higher Risk of COVID-19 and its Socioeconomic Fallout Bangkok – The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout pose great risks to migrants in the Asia-Pacific, a new United Nations report reveals. They are more likely to be exposed to the virus, lack access to health care and other essential services, be stranded in countries without work or social...

Covid-19 pandemic: socio-economic fallout poses great risk to migrants in Asia-Pacific Representational image of Bangladeshi migrant workers. File Photo: Reuters Star Online Report Star Online Report The Covid-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout poses great risk to migrants in the Asia-Pacific, a new United Nations report reveals on the International Migrants Day being observed today. They are more likely to be exposed to the virus, lack acces...

COVID-19 Bangkok – The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout pose great risks to migrants in the Asia-Pacific, a new United Nations report reveals. They are more likely to be exposed to the virus, lack access to health care and other essential services, be stranded in countries without work or social protection and face rising xenophobia. However, as essential workers and remittance providers, migrants are also key to recovering better. Unlike nationals, migrants have generally not...

International Migrants Day: UNESCO mobilized on information, migration and COVID-19 LISTEN DEC 18, 2020 Within the framework of the project "Empowering Young People in Africa through media and communication", UNESCO is committed on the occasion of International Migrants Day on December 18, 2020 in a digital awareness campaign in West and Central Africa. December 18 is recognized by the United Nations as the International Migrants Day which is an opportunity to dispel prejudices and raise aw...