Respect for migrant rights underpins and reinforces the positive linkages that can be made between migration and development. Protection of migrant rights, both in countries of origin (prior departure) and of destination is of fundamental importance to realizing its full potential.
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Last updated: 11/03/2010
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose sixtieth anniversary we
celebrate this year, remains the primary international articulation of the fundamental
rights of all members of the human family. To mark the anniversary, the member agencies of the Global Migration Group have embarked on a timely, collaborative effort to analyze the challenges of protecting the human rights of international migrants.
This report is the product of that process. Among its main findings is the
assessment that despite the many positive contributions migration makes to the
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UNICEF Moldova has launched an initiative to improve the existing information on children in migrant households, in the context of a broader UNICEF global study on the impact of migration and remittances on children. During its initial phase, the Moldova studies on the impact of migration on children left behind gathered existing quantitative and qualitative secondary data and carried out quantitative and qualitative research on children living in migrant households.
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The paper examines the project reports and the migration literature seeking to identify the links between permanent international migration and children’s rights in left-behind households. It focuses on the role of migration and remittances on improving the livelihoods of children in migrant households, and on broadening their capacities for full participation in society.
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Last updated: 09/03/2010
Social and political developments at the beginning of the 1990s had an impact on the living standards of the population of Moldova. Unemployment, low salaries and delays in paying salaries encouraged people to improve their livelihoods by leaving to work abroad. Migration has continued unabated into this century, and there are no indications that it will cease in the near future. A considerable number of people who migrate from Moldova for various periods of time are parents who leave their children behind.
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Last updated: 08/03/2010
Forced population displacement has grown in size and complexity in recent years, and the 2008 Global Trends report reflects many of the major humanitarian developments between January and December 2008. The report analyses the statistical trends and changes in the global populations for whom UNHCR has been entrusted with a responsibility by the United Nations General Assembly. These include refugees, returnees, stateless persons and certain groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs), collectively referred to in this report as “persons of concern”.
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Last updated: 08/03/2010
BY PETRE WILLIAMS-RAYNOR williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com
Jamaican Observer, Sunday, March 07, 2010
TWENTY children of incarcerated or deported Jamaican migrants will shortly be selected to receive financial aid and other benefits under a European Union and United Nations joint project.
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Last updated: 05/03/2010
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Los efectos de las migraciones sobre la salud psico-social y el desarrollo de ninos, ninas y adolescentes, constituyen objectos de estudio de enorme interes en la perspectiva de la generacion de politicas pulicas adaptadas y pertinentes, focalizadas hacia la mejora del bienestar de las familias. A pesar de la importancia de la realidad emigratoria para el Ecuador, la generacion de investigaciones acerca de la restructuracion de los papeles intrafamiliares y los imaginarios sociales causados por procesos de movilidad humana, ha sido mas bien escasa.
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Vulnerable children -- especially those deprived of parental care -- constitute a specific risk group. Yet until recently, the magnitude of this issue was underestimated in Moldova. Official authorities were more concerned with traditional protection issues and caregivers and parents tended to be complacent, believing that remittance flows automatically lead to improvements in family well-being.
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This study focuses on children left behind by their parent(s) working overseas and how their rights are addressed in the absence of one or both parents. The study uses proxy measures to examine the effects of parental migration in satisfying the rights of left-behind children. The study finds that while children of migrants are able to join academic organizations and extra-curricular activities, an overwhelming majority of these children are not protected against economic shocks.
