… urge African governments to recommit to 15% budget allocation to healthPublic service health unions in Nigeria and Ghana have warned that Africa is heading towards a catastrophic shortage of health ...

The key highlights of the report include bridging some of the data gaps from the previous edition by availing data from additional data sources, improved chapter on social protection, remittance, and ...

Placing Labour Rights at the centre of systems governing migration: ratify and implement International Labour Standards for all migrants regardless of their status, including the ILO ...

MANILA: On the night before she flew to Riyadh, Maria (not her real name) tucked her children's school photos into the front ...

When a senior political leader publicly suggests that young people should be ready to “take up arms” to remove undocumented ...

Nepal has around 416 licensed agencies, Sri Lanka 248, Myanmar about 600, India around 192 registered recruiters, while Pakistan 464 licensed overseas employment promoters, highlighting concerns that ...

Labour migration from Bangladesh increased nearly 12 percent last year despite growing global restrictions, rising migration costs, and safety concerns for migrant workers. More than 11.3 lakh ...

Uzbekistan is implementing a new strategy to regulate labor migration. Its underlying philosophy appears to be ‘steer clear of Russia if at all possible.’ That goal, of course, won’t be achieved ...

Indonesia's human capital development is middling. The Asian Financial Crisis resulted in a long-lasting premature transition to a services-based economy, with the resulting jobs having few ...

With multiple policy changes, migration has become a defining question at the intersection of elections, state power, economic strategies and national identity. The impact of this shift was momentous.