Migration and development
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Migration and development, Pakistan, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
‘Now they only deport’: Afghans trapped in Pakistan arrested and sent back after ‘open war’ breaks out
Journalists and activists who fled Taliban rule are living in fear as Pakistani police hunt and deport refugee…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Art, Art and design, Culture, Employment, Global development, Guinea-Bissau, India, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Somalia, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Even in the most unlikely places there is beauty’: stories of hope from newsrooms around the world
From the construction worker who won a place at medical school to an art exhibition in a country with no galle…
- Asia Pacific, Bangladesh, Global development, Human rights, Human trafficking, Law, Malaysia, Migration, Migration and development, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
‘A generation lost at sea’: the desperate Rohingya falling prey to traffickers as they flee Bangladesh
Barred from work and school in Bangladesh, thousands of refugees are making the perilous voyage to Malaysia by…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, witho…
- Fifa, Football, Football politics, Global development, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia and sport, South and Central Asia, Sport, Workers' rights, World Cup, World Cup 2034, World news
Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom
Two reports published today catalogue ‘gruesome yet avoidable accidents’ on construction sites despite the Gul…
- Africa, Amnesty International, Climate crisis, Donald Trump, Environment, Europe, Global development, Human rights, Law, LGBTQ+ rights, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US foreign policy, US news, US politics, Women, World news
Trump’s first 100 days supercharged a global ‘freefall of rights’, says Amnesty
World now in era of repressive regimes’ impunity, climate inaction and unchecked corporate power, says reportT…
- Football, Global development, Human rights, Migration and development, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and sport, South and Central Asia, Sport, Workers' rights, World Cup, World Cup 2034, World news
First migrant worker dies building a World Cup stadium in Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, was a foreman building Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, one of 11 new venues for 2…
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How not to be deported: India’s nurses seeking work abroad learn how to migrate safely
Kerala is providing lessons on how not to be scammed by employment agencies as US and UK step up immigration r…
- Bangladesh, Employment, Football, Global development, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Saudi Arabia, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World Cup, World news
‘Many migrant workers will die’: the likely human cost of awarding the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia
Millions of migrants will build stadiums, transport networks and hotels. But testimonies from Bangladeshis who…
- Child labour, Dalits, Employment, Global development, Global health, India, Law, Malnutrition, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access heal…
- Global development, Migration and development, Myanmar, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?
Fresh outbreak of violence after decades of ethnic tensions has prompted tens of thousands of people to flee t…
- Bangladesh, Fifa, Global development, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Saudi Arabia, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World Cup
Used, abused and deported: migrant workers land back in Bangladesh after Saudi dreams turn sour
As the Gulf kingdom bids to host a World Cup that will see its reliance on cheap foreign labour soar, planeloa…
- Climate crisis, Coastlines, Environment, Extreme weather, Family, Farming, Global development, India, Life and style, Marriage, Migration, Migration and development, Oceans, South and Central Asia, World news
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity …
- Afghanistan, Calais, Europe, France, Global development, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Iran, Migration, Migration and development, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified
French authorities accused of failing to investigate the fates of refugees who have gone missing at sea while …
- Asia Pacific, Global development, Migration, Migration and development, Myanmar, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Thailand, World news
‘I have no idea how I’ll survive’: Myanmar villagers who fled airstrikes face food shortage
In camps on the border with Thailand, thousands of people displaced by the military are subsisting on meagre r…