UWN correspondent wins labour migration reporting award
08 January 2021
The North African correspondent for the Africa edition of
University World News (UWN) and contributor of news from the Middle East and Africa to the publication’s global edition, Wagdy Sawahel, has been named one of eight category winners in the inaugural African Labour Migration Reporting Awards.
Sawahel, an associate research professor at the National Research Centre in Cairo, Egypt, with wide-ranging expertise on the higher education sector, science, technology, innovation and the knowledge economy, won the Governance of Labour Migration category for an article about the migration of African health workers to the West titled, “COVID-19 drives medical brain drain – Is it all bad?”.
IOM Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa COVID-19 Response - Situation Report 18 (09 - 28 December 2020)
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As of 27 December 2020, a total of 2,807,699 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, out of which 49,307 fatalities have been reported.
On 10 December 2020, IOM MENA co-organized a webinar on Expanding Universal Health Coverage among refugees and migrants: Challenges and Opportunities together with WHO EMRO, UNHCR MENA, and UNRWA to commemorate the Universal Health Coverage Day. At the round table discussion, Dr. Chiaki Ito, Regional Migration Health Specialist emphasized that no one will be safe if migrants are not included in health care systems ensuring health for all.
EU: The Black Book of Pushbacks : testimonies of pushbacks affecting over 12,000 people
07 January 2021
The Black Book of Pushbacks has been produced by the Border Violence Monitoring Network to document the horrific violence suffered by over 12,000 people at the hands of authorities on the EU’s external borders . The publication, which documents so many incidents that it comes in two volumes, was launched on International Migrants Day. Today the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) are releasing a landmark publication on illegal border pushbacks. The ‘Black Book of Pushbacks’ brings together a wealth of evidence on these violations, analysing in detail the way that these brutal acts have become systematised at the external border and renewing calls to end impunity for perpetrating EU authorities.
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