The vicious and calculated escalation of abuses and deaths of children at the U.S. border over the last months have horrified millions across the globe. We have collectively witnessed an unprecedented scale of separation of children from their families; mass...
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Trump’s Pick for UN Migration Job Voted Down
Trump's controversial pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva BY: Zachary Cohen and Elise Labott Washington (CNN)--The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for...
Texas Will Close Immigrant Women’s Prison
Texas' Williamson County Will Close An Immigrant Women's Prison — But Says That's Not Enough By Mehreen Kasana There’s some good news when it comes to immigration matters in the Lone Star State. On Tuesday, KXAN reported Williamson County in Texas voted to close...
Why Women Defy Nepal’s Travel Ban to Take on Domestic Work Overseas
BY ROJITA ADHIKARI-- Phurpa Tamang, 36, has been struggling for almost an hour to find a mobile signal in the remote village of Sindhupalchok. He’s trying to make a video call to his wife, Kalpana, in Dubai. When Phurpa and Kalpana got married around eight years ago,...
#AllWomenCount
#AllWomenCount: art and culture at the forefront of World Refugee Day RO MURPHY --The number of forced migrants is now at an all-time global high – and a majority of these are women and children. Images of refugee women are a familiar sight in press...
Women Fleeing Domestic Violence Need Asylum
By Michelle Brané With all eyes on Singapore this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions took the opportunity to ramp up the Trump administration’s assault on asylum-seekers at the U.S. border, with a special focus on women and children. In his decision on “Matter of...
#MeToo: Rural Women, Migrant Women, Sexual Assault, Access to Justice
Please Join the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) UN-CSW 62 Parallel Event Thursday, 15 March, 10:30am – 12:00pm Chapel (ground floor), Church Center for the United Nations, E 44th Street and First Avenue The Context: As reports emerge about sexual harassment and...
Mediterranean Migration Talks in Paris
On Monday, European and African leaders met in Paris to discuss their plans to reduce migration across the Mediterranean. European leaders from France, Germany, Italy and Spain met with the heads of state from Libya, Niger and Chad to try and formulate a...
Dead, Battered, Missing: Mediterranean policies
by Mégane Ghorbani Español: haga clic aquí Français cliquez ici To commemorate World Refugee Day, celebrated each year on June 20th, AWID spoke to Yasmine Flitti, Director of Finance and Administration with Comede (Committee for the Health of Exiles)1 and Hélène Rama...
Migrant salary rules may cost NHS nurse jobs
by Nick Triggle, health correspondent Thousands of foreign nurses working in junior posts in the UK could be forced to return home under new immigration rules, union leaders have warned. A new pay threshold for migrants means non-European workers will have to leave...