Latino immigrants have launched an all-out fight-back against the repression, exploitation, and racism they routinely face in the United States with a series of unprecedented strikes and demonstrations.

The High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development will take place on 14 and 15 September 2006 in New York at UN Headquarters.

"If you have not been an undocumented immigrant from Central America making your dangerous way through Mexico only to face vigilante hate groups and la migra at the U.S. border, you don't know what hell is". By Hugo Orellana.

Thousands of high school pupils across the United States boycotted classes for the third straight day, hoping to derail a proposed law that would criminalise millions of illegal immigrants.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is marked every year on 21 March with activities led by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, New York and at the field-presences. This year’s theme is Fighting Everyday Racism.

Of the estimated 25 million people worldwide who are uprooted in their own countries by violence and persecution, over half are in Africa. Some 2.9 million of these internally displaced persons (IDPs) are found in countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Statement issued by "December 18" – an international resource and advocacy centre on migrants’ rights calling for universal ratification and effective implementation of the U.N. Migrant Workers Convention on occasion of International Migrant’s Day 2005.

The Sub-Committee on Immigrants and Refugees of the NGO Committee on Human Rights is organizing a special panel on “The Report of the Global Commission on International Migration: Challenges for 2006 and Beyond”.

There are between 1.5 and 2 million migrant workers in Thailand, roughly 80 percent are Burmese. This article highlights legal and social factors which contribute to the gross exploitation of migrant workers in Thailand, with a particular focus on Burmese workers in Mae Sot, Tak province, which is host to some 100,000 Burmese workers employed primarily in textile and garment factories, other manufacturing sectors, and agricultural work. Mae Sot is situated on the Thai side of the Thai-Burma border.

Inmigrant workers, mostly Burmese women working as maids, are being exploited by their Thai bosses who treat them like slaves, researches said.