New Zealand First held its annual general meeting last weekend and affirmed it will contest the 2011 election. The party missed out on parliamentary representation last...

Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study. Africans...

The boy, who said he was 15 but looked younger, recounted how his family left Afghanistan after his mother lost her leg in an explosion in 2004. They spent three years...

Like many developed nations, New Zealand has an aging population, by 2031 those aged over 65, the current retirement age, will be equivalent to 35 percent of the...

People from terror-affected areas in Pakistan’s NWFP province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are moving to live in big cities, especially Peshawar,...

Migration from Mexico, mainly to the United States, plunged dramatically last year as fewer Mexicans left their country to look for work abroad amid a global economic...

The expansion of cities probably lies in absence of bread and butter means in the villages. Sadly, the metropolitan cities have turned into exploitation centers of...

Situation in Gaza is escalating to full scale war with already some 400 deaths and triple of that in hospitals. Using of force can stop rockets from Gaza to Israel for...

Roughly etched onto Brian’s arm is a swastika tattoo. The 11-year-old says his 10-year-old friend Temashi spent two days “scratching” the image onto...

I was born in Maharashtra and am a true Indian. I have loved the city of Mumbai equally as my family. It forced me to write this because of the wrong picture that is...

How could a people establish itself outside its native country is plainly depicted in the form of prosperous Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Their prosperity isn’t...

Kalpana Giri was a government school teacher in Bajura and her husband was a policeman. During the conflict, he was forced by the Maoists to leave the police and they...

The Philippine government’s enthusiasm for the increased deployment of more highly skilled and professional migrants should be reviewed in the light of the political...

In the face of an economic crisis already causing job losses throughout the world and more discriminatory immigration policies, United Nations Secretary General Ban...

The Philippines was selected to be a target country for the 15-million-euro (P950-million) global joint initiative of the European Commission and the United Nations...

“Marriage migration is a collective term referring to cross-border marriages which often involves women migrating to the home country of their husbands. The trend...

Governments participating in next week’s Second Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) should pay attention to the plight of an estimated 20 million...

The second Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) that will be held in Manila on October 29-30 will facilitate discussion among world leaders on the impact of...

Can you imagine yourself living in hell? Can you imagine you, your family and your friends having to work and study in a place that was completely taken by violence and...

In a first, a new study has corroborated statistically what many ornithologists have long suspected — that most birds fly in flocks even at night.