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newagebd (01.10.2018) Migrant rights activists on Sunday demanded ensuring social protection of migrant workers and their dependents. Speaking at a workshop they said that it was the duty of the state to provide the social protection to the migrant workers’ as their immense contributions cannot be estimated in money terms.
The ‘Validation Workshop on Social Cost of Migration’ was organized by WARBE Development Foundation in the conference room of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training.

EurActiv (27.07.2018) Le manque de main d’oeuvre en Pologne a poussé le gouvernement a assouplir sa politique d’accueil des travailleurs étrangers

emro.who (12.07.2018) The World Health Organization (WHO) today called for the protection of health facilities and increased access to southern Syria, where the recent hostilities have left over 210 000 people displaced and in need of urgent health services. Up to 160 000 displaced Syrians currently seeking safety in Quneitra are inaccessible to health partners, raising concerns for their health.

The GLOBAL MIGRATION FLOWS interactive app tracks migrants around the world. This application is now being hosted by IOM.int. It is endlessly fascinating to explore where we're from.

The underlying data for the map was published by the UN DESA in 2015. Using the app: Choose whether you want to access information about migrants leaving a country (Outward) or migrants entering a country (Inward). Then click on a country and watch the pattern of migration to or from the chosen country.

europa.eu (21.06.2018) The revision of the regulations on coordination of social security systems aims at modernising the rules by bringing them in line with the development of national social security systems, as well as making them clearer, fairer and simpler to enforce. This will make it easier for people to move freely within the EU.

EL PAÍS (27.06.2018) La sanidad pública atenderá a todos los residentes en España por su condición de ciudadanos, no de asegurados que se han ganado la atención médica por cotizar a la Seguridad Social. Este es uno de los cambios fundamentales que prevé introducir el Ministerio de Sanidad en el real decreto por el que devolverá la atención sanitaria a los inmigrantes irregulares, según la documentación enviada por el departamento de la ministra Carmen Montón a las comunidades autónomas y a la que ha tenido acceso

Irish Times (20.06.2018) There will be “virtually no impact” from additional refugees on the workforce population in Ireland by December 2020, the latest International Migration Outlook report has found.

Comparative Migration Studies   (June 2018) In Belgium, for instance, there are officially 21.084 Latin American registered. 60% of them are women.

EurActiv (17.05.2018) Freedom of services belongs to the four freedoms of the EU. Austria wants to fight its abuse with the help of digitisation. EURACTIV Germany reports from Vienna. The fight against “social fraud, in particular organised illegal work” is one of the main tasks laid down in the work program of the Austrian government. Of course, this is not just an issue that concerns Austria. In fact, in this case, the EU is challenged to lay the foundations for intergovernmental data exchange.