Dubai: A Filipina has been judged as the UAE’s best nanny, at the first such award held in the country on Saturday. “This is really an unexpected blessing,” said Lorina Bunio, 29, who had swapped her everyday casual clothes for…
Category: Migration
‘Today is one of the heaviest days of my life’
By Cathy Breen I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They…
Anti-immigration Senator Jeff Sessions tipped as Attorney Gen
By Keegan Hamilton President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general, according to multiple reports citing sources close to Trump’s White House transition team. A conservative Republican and an early supporter of Trump’s bid…
Trump surrogate on Muslim registry
On the eve of Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — his first in-person conversation with a world leader and U.S. ally as President-elect — one of Trump’s surrogates repeatedly cited World War II Japanese internment…
Donald Trump team ‘discussing plans for Muslim registration system’
Donald Trump’s policy advisers are discussing plans to establish a registry for Muslim immigrants in the US, a man believed to be a key member of the President-elect’s transition team has revealed.Kris Kobach, the secretary of state for Kansas, said…
Hundreds of Rohingya try to escape Myanmar crackdown
Hundreds of people from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar are trying to escape a military crackdown by crossing the border into Bangladesh.The people attempting to flee include children.Witnesses and Bangladeshi officials say that some people trying to flee have been…
Trump: ‘We are getting them out of our country’
Donald Trump made the first major appointments of his administration on Sunday, selecting Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff, the top employee in the administration. He also named Stephen Bannon, his campaign CEO…
BD civil society urge Govt: Commit to achieve SDG on migration
The commitment to “leave no one behind” is a key feature of the newly adopted 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This transformative agenda, which outlines the goals for sustainable development for the coming 15 years and beyond, truly has the poorest,…
Canada immigration site crashes as Trump leads to victory
Dhaka – Canada’s official website providing information on immigration and itizenship has broken as people look to leave the US as Donald Trump grabbed an early lead in the US presidential race.
2016 deadliest year in Mediterranean: UN refugee agency
Berlin (AP/UNB) — The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday that at least 3,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in an attempt to reach Europe,, making 2016 the deadliest year on record. The Geneva-based agency…
Civilians flee Mosul crowd Iraqi refugee camps
By Cassandra Vinograd and Hind Hassan About 500 people have been arriving each day at the Debaga refugee camp in northern Iraq, with aid organizations bracing for an influx as the Mosul offensive proceeds. Some 11,000 refugees arrived at the…
UN member states urged to develop migration strategies
Migration governance cannot be only about closing borders and keeping people out, said two United Nations human rights experts calling on UN member states to develop long-term strategies and policies to facilitate rather than restrict migration.
France relocates over 6,000 migrants destroying camp
Calais (AP/UNB) — Lines of migrants with their lives in small bags walked to a registration center in the French port city of Calais Monday, the first day of the mass evacuation and destruction of the filthy camp they called…
Merkel: ‘national effort’ to ensure rejected migrants leave
Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany needs to make a “national effort” to ensure that migrants who are refused asylum leave the country.Germany has seen a steep decline this year in the number of asylum-seekers arriving after 890,000 came last year.…
39 held at Ctg airport while going to Libya illegally
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested 39 people at Shah Amanat International Airport here on Thursday while they were going to Libya illegally.Being tipped off that some people were trying to go Libya with fake visa and documents, a team…
Nine Myanmar police killed by insurgents at BD border
Dhaka – At least nine police officers of Myanmar have been killed and four wounded in multiple assaults on border guard posts along the Southeast Asian nation’s frontier with Bangladesh Yangon authorities said, Reuters news agency reported.
Remittance inflow to the country declines by $141m in Sept
The remittance inflow to the country has declined by $141 million as it received $1.043 billion in September while it was $1.183billion in August.
Indian migrant workers suicide in Qatar raises concern
By Tom Finn Doha – The death of an Indian laborer in Qatar who had complained about not being paid and later committed suicide on a building site has focused attention on migrant workers struggling amid an economic downturn in the Gulf…
Migration is our history, reality and future
William Lacy Swing People have always been on the move. Migration is not a catastrophe, nor is it an invasion. Often, it is not even an emergency. Throughout human history it has mostly been, simply, one thing: inevitable. Migration is…
1.1 millioin Bangladeshi overseas workers legalized: minister
Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam, BSc today said the governments of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Iraq have legalized some 10,77,000 undocumented Bangladeshi overseas workers as a result of successful diplomatic efforts of the present government.“Bangladeshi undocumented workers…
148 bodies retrieved after migrant boat capsizes off Egypt
Egypt’s state news agency says the total number of bodies pulled from the Mediterranean waters off the Egyptian coast has climbed to 148, three days after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized.MENA quotes Wahdan el-Sayyed, the spokesman of the…
Migrant workers in gulf feel pinch of falling oil prices
In the Al Quoz industrial area of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a number of medium and large-sized buses can be spotted transporting workers clad in company uniforms to distant worksites early in the morning. In the evening…
UN refugee summits fall short for children
As Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini opened the floor for US President Barack Obama’s leaders’ summit on refugees, she embodied a hope unavailable to most child refugees.On Monday, the United States was one of the main countries to obstruct a UN…
PM wants Myanmar find solution to refugee issue
New York – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh looks forward to working with the new Myanmar leadership to find a lasting solution to the refugee issue and urged the other international partners to remain engaged in this regard,…
UN rights chief says world has failed refugees
United Nations 19 (AP/UNB) – The U.N. human right chief said the summit – the high-level U.N. General Assembly meeting – on refugee and migrants was necessary because the international community has failed to protect those caught in the world’s…
PM for free global movement of all factors of production
From Golam Moin Uddin, UNB Staff Writer New York – Mentioning five aspects of migration governance, including securing rights of migrants in all situations irrespective of their status, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said goods, services and all factors…
More than 10 Million people displaced in first half of 2016
More than 10 million people have been displaced across the globe in the first half of 2016, with Syria, Yemen and Turkey topping the list, according to estimates compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).
US may walk away from Syria deal unless aid flows: Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama warned that the United States may walk away from a Syrian cease-fire deal reached with Russia last week unless Syria allows humanitarian aid to reach needy people. After Obama met with his national security team on…
UN summit won’t resolve refugee resettlement impasse
Next week’s landmark UN summit on refugees and migrants was supposed to help resettle one in ten refugees, instead UN member states have settled for vague gestures, including a campaign to end xenophobia.Human rights organisations and humanitarian actors alike have…
Dalai Lama urges talks with Islamic State, help for refugees
Paris (AP/UNB) – The Dalai Lama says there should be dialogue with Islamic State extremists to end bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, and argues that religion is never a justification for bloodshed.