Global Migrant

A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence, and persecution, the UN said Thursday, branding the ever-increasing number a "terrible indictment on the state of the world".

The UN called Tuesday on Britain to reconsider plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, warning it threatened the rule of law and set "a perilous precedent globally".

With the Centre issuing a notification for the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, non-Muslims migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan can now seek Indian citizenship

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday took a strong stance in favour of skilled migrant workers in a key speech at the Global Investment Summit here amid mounting pressure on his government to bring down soaring immigration statistics.

Singapore wont limit the number of applicants for its newest work permit, Minister of Manpower Tan See Leng said, as the city-state seeks to burnish its appeal to the best minds globally.

Britain on Thursday demanded a "coordinated international effort" across Europe to deter people-smuggling after at least 27 migrants drowned as they tried to reach England.

International Migrants Day: The 2020 theme for International Migrants Day is 'Reimagining Human Mobility'. To mark International Migrants Day this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has called for the world community to come together and "remember the refugees and migrants who have lost their lives".

The year 2020 has been extremely challenging to the entire world. An unprecedented pandemic, deaths of some of the biggest names in the world, a global lockdown, civil unrests across the world and a hard-hit economy were just some of the adversities the planet faced. As 2020 draws to a close, we look at 10 defining images of the year and the storie...

Increased testing for coronavirus and the question of migrant labourers dominated the second zoom session of senior Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both issues have been at the centre stage of the crisis the country is facing over the global pandemic.

India continues to be the largest country of origin of international migrants with a 17.5 million-strong diaspora across the world, and it received the highest remittance of USD 78.6 billion from Indians living abroad, the UN migration agency said.

India was the leading country of origin of international migrants in 2019 with a 17.5 million strong overseas Indian community, according to new estimates released by the United Nations, which said the number of migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million.

The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil and became a global symbol of the dangers of migration, said she urged her son not to "follow the American dream" before he left their country.

As India has become wealthier, more of its citizens are leaving its shores. An estimated 17 million Indians were living abroad in 2017, making India the largest source country for international migrants globally, up from seven million in 1990 and a 143 per cent increase, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from the United Nations Department...

The administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a United Nations pact to improve the handling of migrant and refugee situations, deeming it "inconsistent" with its policies, the US mission to the global body announced Saturday.

World Cup 2022 host Qatar, under global scrutiny over its alleged ill-treatment of migrant labourers, is to introduce a minimum wage for workers, official state media said Wednesday.

A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence, and persecution, the UN said Thursday, branding the ever-increasing number a "terrible indictment on the state of the world".

The UN called Tuesday on Britain to reconsider plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, warning it threatened the rule of law and set "a perilous precedent globally".

With the Centre issuing a notification for the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, non-Muslims migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan can now seek Indian citizenship

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday took a strong stance in favour of skilled migrant workers in a key speech at the Global Investment Summit here amid mounting pressure on his government to bring down soaring immigration statistics.

Singapore wont limit the number of applicants for its newest work permit, Minister of Manpower Tan See Leng said, as the city-state seeks to burnish its appeal to the best minds globally.

Britain on Thursday demanded a "coordinated international effort" across Europe to deter people-smuggling after at least 27 migrants drowned as they tried to reach England.

International Migrants Day: The 2020 theme for International Migrants Day is 'Reimagining Human Mobility'. To mark International Migrants Day this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has called for the world community to come together and "remember the refugees and migrants who have lost their lives".

The year 2020 has been extremely challenging to the entire world. An unprecedented pandemic, deaths of some of the biggest names in the world, a global lockdown, civil unrests across the world and a hard-hit economy were just some of the adversities the planet faced. As 2020 draws to a close, we look at 10 defining images of the year and the storie...

Increased testing for coronavirus and the question of migrant labourers dominated the second zoom session of senior Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both issues have been at the centre stage of the crisis the country is facing over the global pandemic.

India continues to be the largest country of origin of international migrants with a 17.5 million-strong diaspora across the world, and it received the highest remittance of USD 78.6 billion from Indians living abroad, the UN migration agency said.

India was the leading country of origin of international migrants in 2019 with a 17.5 million strong overseas Indian community, according to new estimates released by the United Nations, which said the number of migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million.

The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil and became a global symbol of the dangers of migration, said she urged her son not to "follow the American dream" before he left their country.

As India has become wealthier, more of its citizens are leaving its shores. An estimated 17 million Indians were living abroad in 2017, making India the largest source country for international migrants globally, up from seven million in 1990 and a 143 per cent increase, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from the United Nations Department...

The administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a United Nations pact to improve the handling of migrant and refugee situations, deeming it "inconsistent" with its policies, the US mission to the global body announced Saturday.

World Cup 2022 host Qatar, under global scrutiny over its alleged ill-treatment of migrant labourers, is to introduce a minimum wage for workers, official state media said Wednesday.