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Australian Employment Rose Less-Than-Expected 400
BusinessWeek
“Employment is growing strongly, more than keeping pace with the fastest migration-fueled growth in population in decades,” Kieran Davies, chief economist ...

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Australian Employment Rose Less-Than-Expected 400
Bloomberg
“Employment is growing strongly, more than keeping pace with the fastest migration-fueled growth in population in decades,” Kieran Davies, chief economist ...

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New Zealand Herald
Retirement visa plan draws flak
National Business Review
Since 2005 there had been a significant drop off in business migration investment due to high investment expectations and stronger English language ...
Temporary migrants using student visa to extend stay in New ZealandOneindia
Coleman: No need to limit student entryNew Zealand Herald
6000 student visas restored after legal glitchThe Australian
Radio New Zealand -Visa Bureau -Voxy
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(New York) - The Azerbaijani government should release two bloggers who have been detained since July 2009 as the result of a staged fight designed to frame them, Human Rights Watch said today. The bloggers, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, lost their appeal against their conviction today.

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(New York) - Newly issued laws in preparation for 2010 elections in Burma are designed to exclude the main opposition party and ensure a victory for the ruling military, Human Rights Watch said today.

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The next frontier of cost cutting
REjournals.com
The study found that while the state did see net-out migration of half millionaire households from 2004-2008, the number of half?millionaires in New Jersey ...

The Goal Is Freedom: Be Our Guest (Worker)
ILW.com
The right one is to recognize individual rights as universal principles and remove migration from public policy. How can we do less? ...

Sri Lankan Migration To The Gulf: Female Breadwinners — Domestic Workers
Eurasia Review
In 2003, the Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), the main administrative body regulating labor migration, estimated that 1003600 Sri Lankans ...

(New York) - The Sri Lankan government should end its harassment of journalists and activists and take steps against those making threats, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement today.

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Duma Looks to Give Foreign Teachers a Break
The Moscow Times
Regulations put in place last year by the Federal Migration Service have made it extremely difficult for Russian universities and language schools to hire ...

Russian expats come back to grab new opportunities
RT
Russia is making changes to its migration policy trying to entice more emigres to come back. Desperate to boost its dwindling population, Russia warmly ...

(New York) - Saudi Arabia's Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecutions should immediately drop "cybercrimes" charges against Nasir al-Subai'i for writing about his bureaucratic ordeal as he tried to get the government to pay for his brother's medical care, Human Rights Watch said today.

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(New York) - A UN review of Uzbekistan's human rights record on March 11 and 12, 2010, is a rare opportunity to highlight the government's abysmal record and to urge specific steps to end abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The government's persecution of human rights defenders, rampant torture and ill-treatment, and religious persecution top the list of concerns, Human Rights Watch said.

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Maui effort honors 2 ethnic groups
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
"Their migration proved to be very significant because within a few years of immigration, they got their first Catholic bishop, someone who grew up here, ...

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(New York) - The Afghan government should urgently act to repeal a law that provides an amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today.

The law was published unannounced in the official gazette, bringing it into force, despite repeated promises by President Hamid Karzai that he would not allow the law to go into effect.

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The ITUC has condemned the Israeli government's decision to build some 1,600 new settlement homes on Palestinian land next to Jerusalem, just two days after the Palestinian Authority had announced its willingness to hold “proximity” talks with Israel using US mediation.

Brussels, 10 March 2010: The ITUC has condemned the Israeli government's decision to build some 1,600 new settlement homes on Palestinian land next to Jerusalem, just two days after the Palestinian Authority had announced its willingness to hold “proximity” talks with Israel using US mediation.

“This latest announcement by the government of Israel is a major setback for the prospects of renewed dialogue between Palestine and Israel, all the more so since it came immediately after an important move from the Palestinian side which we still hope can help kick-start the peace process,” said ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who will travel to the region later this month, has strongly criticised the Israeli move, pointing out that settlements are “illegal under international law”, and that settlement activity “undermines any movement towards a viable peace process”.

The ITUC represents 176 million workers in 312 affiliated national organisations from 155 countries. http://www.youtube.com/ITUCCSI

For more information please contact the ITUC Press Department on +32 2 224 0204 or +32 476 621 018.

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Migrant workers risk deportation from Thailand
Ethiopian Review
“A very important dimension of this year's report is that it challenges many of the stereotypes, which bedevil the debate around migration. ...

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Business Gazette
Salvadoran communities feel sting of recession's deep cuts
Business Gazette
In El Salvador, rampant youth delinquency, high murder rates and gangs extorting businesses also drive migration, said Reynaldo Alvergue, director of SOS ...
A family struggles to stay connectedBusiness Gazette

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Reform by Editorial Fails in China
The Epoch Times
The CCP first prohibited migration inside China in its first constitution, adopted in 1954, with a provision that has remained unmodified since. ...

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(New York) - More than one hundred leading China scholars, writers, and human rights advocates from around the world are today releasing a letter to China's National People's Congress that calls for the immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo.

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