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• Nokia Works With CTG To Develop IT Talent In China

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 431
  Mobile phone giant Nokia has signed an agreement with China Talent Group saying that Nokia will provide jobs to 500 migrant workers in China after they receive professional training at CTG.Under the agreement, Anhui Liuan Advanced Technical School, an affiliate of CTG, will recruit 500 migrant workers and train them ...
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• Man charged with people smuggling

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  30/11/09; See: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/man-charged-with-people-smuggling/story-fn3dxiwe-1225804727392An Indonesian man is the third to be charged over an attempt to smuggle more than 50 people into Australia. Two Indonesian nationals, aged 32 and 18, were charged on Wednesday with people ...
  19 hours ago

• A Construction Migrant Worker’s Notes

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  ChinaHush translates a blog post by a migrant worker currently building luxury homes in Sanya , Hainan: I used to have very low self-esteem, just because I am a migrant worker working at construction sites every day. Maybe it’s because I went to junior college for two years, our manger Yang made me the ...
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• The 2nd Annual Harvest of Hope Fest Returns for 2010

  
  Music Connection — Authority: 439
  This Thanksgiving, support the hands that harvested the food on your table by purchasing a ticket to the Harvest of Hope Fest in sunny St. Augustine, Florida. The Harvest of Hope Fest is a three-day, multiple stage music festival that raises awareness and provides financial and educational aid to migrant farm workers ...
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• Terrorist threats in Dehradun

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Dehradun, Nov 28 (ANI): Police Department officials have tightened the security here, after some well-known organisations and public schools in the region received threatening letters from alleged terrorists.The top brass of the police has sounded a high alert over the past two days after nation’s prime petroleum ...
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• Dubai debt woes a concern for Kerala, says State Finance Minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kochi, Nov 28 (ANI): In the wake of crisis in the Dubai World conglomerate, Thomas Isaac, the State Finance Minister said that Kerela would be the worst hit if construction activities in Dubai are affected. Dubai World shocked the global financial world on Thursday, when it announced that it would need to restructure ...
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• Calculated Risk: Your Morning Dubai

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 154
  India, the world’s top recipient of migrant remittances, is examining the effect Dubai’s attempt to delay debt repayments may have on Asia’s third-largest economy, central bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said. … View original post here:  Calculated Risk: Your Morning Dubai
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• Abusive Saudi Employer Keeps his Filipino Driver in Jail

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 516
  We have received alarming news about a Filipino man who is currently jailed in Saudi Arabia after suffering months of abuse from his employer while working without pay. The man’s employer is not making any attempts to help his worker, trying to extort money from him. The man, R. M. (full name withheld for his ...
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• Underground Mon Migrant Union Frees Female Migrants

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  November 26, 2009 WCRP: An Underground Mon Migrant Union, which operates in southern Thailand, has freed several migrant women. According to the Union’s advisor, the organization was established in 2002 to protect Mon migrant workers, although recently it has been focusing efforts on rescuing endangered Mon women. ...
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• Detentions at Border Are Down

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The border at Campo, Calif. The number of those detained while illegally crossing into the United States fell sharply in the year ending Sept. 30.
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• Mexicans Send Money North To Relatives In U.S.

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 541
  We’ve all heard the story. An immigrant comes to America, finds work, and sends most of his wages back home to his family. However, by the fall of 2007, it was becoming clear something was changing. From the New York Times’ Elisabeth Malkin back on October 26, 2007: For years, millions of Mexican migrants ...
  6 days ago

• American White Pelican [Flickr]

  
  Virtua Gallery - A photographic Journal — Authority: 137
  Klaus (kjpweb) posted a photo: Today it was happening - several hundred American White Pelican returned for the winter. Great to see!
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• Disease and monsoon strike Tamil sit-in

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Michael McKenna; 23/11/09; (3 Items)Asylum seekers who are refusing to leave a boat in the Indonesian port of Merak claim sickness is sweeping through their ranks, with several taken to hospital at the weekend suffering acute diarrhoea. For more than a month, the 250 Tamil asylum-seekers have staged a sit-in on the ...
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• Himachal-born child detected with polio in Uttar Pradesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Shimla, Nov 22 (IANS) A two-year-old child of a migrant family from Uttar Pradesh, staying in Himachal Pradesh, has tested positive for polio, an official said Sunday.Health director Nagesh Sharma told IANS that the child was born and brought up in a slum near Baddi town in Solan district, some 75 km from state ...
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• Local Trafficking Case Brings the Face of Modern Slavery Home

  
  Children — Authority: 124
  I recently posted the story, Trafficking? Not in my town…Yes, in every town , which featured the story of 5 year-old, Shaniya Davis, from Fayetteville, North Carolina.  Shaniya was reportedly kidnapped and her body was later found on the side of a rural highway in North Carolina.  Her mother was later charged ...
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• paris undocumented workers on strike: so where next?

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  from Où va la CGT : see here for an interview with migrant worker reps and report on the occupation of the Pompidou centre’s restaurant A month on strike for 5,000 undocumented workers in the Paris region: a month of mobilising people, strikes, pickets in the cold and in the rain. Their determination is ...
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• 1 day off per week, hold own passport, task force...agreed between Indonesia and Malaysia for Domestic Workers. But really still not enough

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 132
  So, it seems that Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to the following:- * One(1) day off per week * Migrant workers will hold on to their own passport [Not the employers] * Malaysian government will also form a special task force in charge of controlling and monitoring rough treatment of  migrant workers There is ...
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• latin american workers in unite: from heroes to pariahs

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  In September 2009 Unite the union ordered the Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS) without notice to vacate the office which it had provided the Association with in its southeast region HQ in Manor House, thus ending a five year partnership. This followed an organised campaign by officials againt LAWAS, because ...
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• Share asylum burden, Indonesians plead

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Tom Allard & Karuni Rompies; 21/11/09Indonesia has begun negotiating a new arrangement to handle asylum seekers with the Rudd Government as the country’s foreign affairs minister called on Australia to ‘’share the burden” of immigrants streaming through the archipelago. Its call came as a customs vessel ...
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• PM’s ’special deal’ leaves kids in lock-up

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Stephen Fitzpatrick, 20/11/09This is Suvanthili Esvaran, the 10-month-old Tamil girl from the Oceanic Viking, whom Kevin Rudd promised not to put in an Indonesian detention centre. Suvanthili’s father died in the final days of fighting, early this year, when the Sri Lankan government finally put down the decades-old ...
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