Migration policies across the world are driven by three core concerns: border and law enforcement, economic interest, and protection. A new report by the NGO December 18 argues that official policies are failing partly because protection has been marginalised. Intensified efforts to suppress migration have not deterred people from seeking security or opportunity abroad but drive many into clandestinity.
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When international human rights observers rounded a curve on a remote road in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, they found the way blocked by boulders. They decided going forward would be dangerous. But they didn’t know that going back would be deadly. Layers of impunity and injustice have covered crimes in Oaxaca for years writes journalist Laura Carlsen.
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For more than 40 years, Burma's children have been scarred by death, destruction, loss and neglect at the hands of Burma's military. They have been forced from their homes and villages, subjected to extreme human rights violations such as rape and forced labour, and left to fend for themselves in displacement settings without access to even the most basic care. It is estimated that there are more than one million displaced children inside Burma today.
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The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific (IWRAW-Asia Pacific), and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) released a primer on women’s economic, social and cultural rights.
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In March 2010, the city of Rio de Janeiro hosts the V World Urban Forum (WUF). Organized by the UN Habitat Agency, the WUF has been dominated by official delegations that responded to multilateral organization discourses and speeches. It has also been unable to open space to social movements that resist the implacable logic of entrepreneurial cities and large projects, especially in peripheral countries.
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