As flows of migrants from developing countries to developed countries grow over time, migration has become an important issue that warrant good management. This paper, written by Narada Luckanachai and Matthias Rieger from the Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, reviews migration policies that exist in various countries and, especially those that could be applicable to North and West African countries.  

The Migration Policy Institute's Migrants, Migration, and Development Program is pleased to share the second in an ongoing series of studies on the role of diasporas in development policy undertaken in cooperation with the US Agency for International Development's Diaspora Networks Alliance. The report, Connected through Service: Diaspora Volunteers and Global Development, discusses how diasporas undertake volunteer work in their countries of origin, as well as the policy implications for USAID in its attempt to enlist diaspora volunteers in international development activities. 

The Project Migration Foundation focuses on supporting young single mothers and their children in East Africa and providing for their basic needs as well as helping them to start a business. The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a young woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend. At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family. Help a single mother keep herself and her children healthy, when she has no other means of support, by donating now. 

Women's Voices Now (WVN) mission is to empower women and give voice to the struggle for civil, economic and political rights. In our first year, WVN will host Women’s Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival giving voice to women of all faiths living in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim women living as minorities around the globe. The Festival is a unique project that highlights pro-women voices from within the Muslim world and presents an unfiltered and honest account of these women’s stories–the experiences that shaped their lives, the challenges that must be overcome before freedom and gender equality become the status quo, the struggle for freedom of expression