|
|
|
|
Durban Review Conference 2009
Human Rights Watch urges governments involved in the Durban review process to press for progress on key issues highlighted at the Durban Conference of 2001 and to address recent or new manifestations of racism and related intolerance. In particular, it is urged action on four issues, all of which provide the Review Conference with an opportunity to make a measurable contribution to the fight against racism and related intolerance. Some of these issues were discussed in 2001, while others reflect new and emerging trends.
[ see more]
|
|
|
Migrant sex work
"Whether you are a transsexual, male or female, you may be able to be a sex worker for a while and not feel it is so horrible. I don’t try to argue that becoming a sex worker is always about making a free choice, but I don’t believe that most people who work in offices or service jobs, for example, always necessarily felt they had unlimited options or a vast number of possibilities available to them, either. So among all the messy situations people can find themselves in, some prefer to sell sex".
[ see more]
|
|
|
Migrations
Migration policies should take into account women’s changing role in migratory flows, and reflect the needs and priorities of women migrants in terms of mobility, access to employment, personal security, and access to financial services.
[ see more]
|
|
|
Internally Displaced Persons
"States must respect the rights of their citizens and their obligations to protect them. Where a refugee or Internally Displaced Persons situation arises as a result of conflict, the country’s political leadership must seek peaceful solutions rather than embark on military strategies. Experience in many conflicts in Africa, such as in Burundi, DRC, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Southern Sudan to mention but a few, shows that military solutions do not succeed. The peace and stability we have seen in these countries is because they have been underpinned by peace agreements rather than outright military victories".
[ see more]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Subscribe to receive what’s new on Choike.
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
Syndicate this site. |
|
|
 |
|
Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustin own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways. Laura Agustín writes as a lifelong migrant and sometime worker in both nongovernmental and academic projects about sex, travel and work.
Go
to NGO directory |
|
|
 |
Migration
- Thu Aug 28 2008
Updates on undocumented migrants in Europe
Migration
/Gender
- Tue Aug 19 2008
Border thinking on migration, culture, economy and sex
Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustín own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways.
Source:
Laura Agustín
|
See more ...
|
|
|
|
