Two new bilateral agreements have been concluded by trade union centres to promote the migrant workers’ rights in the Middle East and Africa. They reflect the international trade union movement’s resolve to fight for the protection and promotion of migrant workers’ rights across the globe.
Inspectors specialising in monitoring working conditions of immigrant workers have been visiting workplaces for the past year in Finland. They have found shortcomings in the implementation of labour regulations at about half of workplaces where foreigners are employed.
“Sex sells” – diese vermeintlich goldene Werberegel ist längst überholt. Das beweist der Seifenhersteller “Dove” bereits seit zwei Jahren.
Stellen Sie sich einen vollbesetzten Stadtbus vor. 82 Sitzplätze hat er normalerweise. Statistisch gese-hen müssten drei Plätze von einem/r muslimischen BürgerIn besetzt werden. Rund 3,3 Millionen Muslime, also vier Prozent der Gesamtbevölkerung, leben derzeit in der Bundesrepublik. Von vier Passagieren ist einer der evangelischen Kirche verbunden, einer der katholischen Kirche und einer glaubt an gar […]
Wenn es um die Einführung des Islamunterrichts geht, ist Niedersachsen bundesweit einsamer Vor-reiter. In dem norddeutschen Bundesland wird islamischer Religionsunterricht im Rahmen eines Schulversuchs angeboten. In Bayern und Nordrhein-Westfalen gibt es Kurse zu “Islamkunde”. Ein steiniger Weg steht bis zur Einführung eines flächendeckenden Religionsunterricht für muslimische SchülerInnen bevor.
Ten years after reaching a cooperation agreement, IOM and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have endorsed an updated agreement to address current global challenges on migration issues. The agreement particularly focuses on promoting the human rights of migrants and on combating sexual violence, with special emphasis on migrant girls and women.
Roughly two-thirds of Czech Romanies who were rejected as job seekers see the cause in employers’ racial prejudices, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Romany civic group Dzeno. The remaining one-third feel they failed due to insufficient skills, advanced age or because they don’t have a clean criminal record.
Three million people a year migrate from developing countries to industrialized nations, a population research group announced 21 August in its annual findings. Almost half of these migrants – 1.4 million people – move to Europe, though the continent is still facing unprecedented population losses from low birth rates. Italy is the world’s second
Berlin is to make entry easier for high-salary foreigners offered jobs in Germany, a government spokeswoman said in Berlin on August 4, after the existing high-skills plan flopped. Germany offers fast-track work visas to anyone winning a job with annual pay of at least 84,000 euros or offering to employ 10 people.
The United Nations says that women migrants who travel to Britain and other developed countries are put at risk of exploitation and abuse because governments “overlook and ignore” them.
