By Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
IRISH TIMES, DUBLIN - Minister for Integration Conor Lenihan has stressed the need to provide retraining for unemployed immigrants with the latest figures showing foreign nationals are far more likely than their Irish counterparts to lose their jobs in the economic downturn.
Mr Lenihan met senior Fás officials yesterday to discuss how [...]
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By Cho Ji-hyun
KOREA HERALD, SEOUL - Migrant workers will be exempted from paying long-term care insurance fees starting in September, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said yesterday.
Those who employ these foreign workers under the Employment Permit System will also be exempted from making such payments, ministry officials said.
But foreign laborers, if [...]
CANWEST NEWS SERVICE, OTTAWA, CANADA - International immigration fuelled an increase in Canada’s population in the last quarter of 2008, particularly in the western provinces, Statistics Canada said Thursday.
The new figures show a population increase of 0.19 per cent, the fastest fourth-quarter growth rate since 1992, the agency said.
‘The increased pace in population growth can [...]
By Karen Lema
REUTERS, MANILA - Like millions of Filipinos, Alma Ang left her homeland to work abroad for a salary far higher than she could have ever earned at home.
Now, as the global financial crisis bites, Filipino migrant workers face the prospect of losing their jobs abroad and returning home unemployed and often in debt.
In [...]
ABBOTSFORD TIMES, CANADA - The British Columbia (B.C.) provincial government is providing $300,000 to Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) for projects that will support older immigrant youth and young adults who are facing significant language and settlement barriers.
‘By working with these younger immigrants to help them transition into their new community we are equipping them with [...]
In an address to a Special Session of the Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, appealed to states and the corporate world to ensure that their policies and practices do not jeopardize people’s human rights. Ms. Pillay warned that the downturn in economies around the world was likely to “undermine access to work, affordability of food and housing, as well as of water, basic health care and education.”
She urged states to “ensure that domestic policy adjustments, particularly those in fiscal spending, are not taken at the expense of the poor through cutbacks in basic services and social protection mechanisms.” “A human rights approach will contribute to making solutions more durable in the medium and long run,” she told the gathering of government delegates, international organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Ms. Pillay underscored the necessity “to identify the specific needs and entitlements of vulnerable groups and individuals, particularly women and children, migrants, refugees, indigenous peoples, minorities and persons with disabilities.
By Miriam Jordan
WALL STREET JOURNAL - Remittances sent from overseas workers back to Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to drop in 2009, according to a new study, shrinking what is often a crucial source of cash for many families in the region.
After a decade of growth, remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean [...]
DEUTSCHE PRESSE AGENTUR, SINGAPORE - Scientists from Singapore’s Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on Thursday warned policy makers not to shift the cost of the global economic crisis disproportionately onto migrant workers, thus increasing the risk of widespread political and social instability. ‘In Asia, social and political unrest could occur if large numbers [...]
UNDP report outlines protection policies for countries receiving and sending migrant women
Manila - Despite the substantial economic benefits that Asian women migrant workers generate from their work in the Arab region, they often migrate under unsafe conditions, are targets of sexual exploitation and violence, and are highly vulnerable to factors that lead to HIV infection, [...]
