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Remitters seen as 'unsung heroes' |
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[10 August 2009, bdnews24.com] Bangladesh's overseas workers, who
remitted a record $9.6 billion or 12 percent of the country's total
earnings in the last fiscal year, were termed "heroes" on Monday, while
the government was urged to properly evaluate the contribution of
remittance earners to the economy. "These valuable
remitters and our garments workers are the 'unsung heroes' of the
economy," Dhaka University economics professor Wahiduddin Mahmud said,
speaking as chief guest at the Remittance Utshob and Shonar Manush
Shommanona 2009.
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New Podcasts from Forced Migration Online |
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Forced Migration Online has launched the first of a series of podcasts
recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association
for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), held in Nicosia, Cyprus
between 28 June and 2 July 2009. The 12th IASFM conference was hosted
by the University of Nicosia. The Refugee Studies Centre team made
audio recordings of the conference’s plenary sessions and these will be
launched gradually over the coming weeks.
To listen to the podcasts please click here
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Indonesia and Jordan sign MOU on migrant workers |
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[29 June 2009 by Ni Komang Erviani in the Jakarta Post] The Indonesian government and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have
signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the placement and
protection of the Indonesian migrant workers employed in Jordan. The MOU was signed by Indonesian Minister of Manpower Erman Suparno and
Jordan Minister of Manpower Gazi Hamdallah Shbaikat at Nusa Dua Beach
Hotel on Saturday night.
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Interview with Migration Expert Bridget Wooding |
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Laura Olsen of UN-INSTRAW interviews Bridget Wooding of FLASCO about studying migration from a gender perspective and FLASCO's new Observatory of Migrants in the Caribbean. To visit the Observatory's website please visit http://www.obmica.org/
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[Bonn, 10 June 2009, care international] - Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before. Climate change is already contributing to migration and displacement.
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