Monday, May 11, 2009
Please find below a series of talks related to the field on migration.
(1) Remittances: Here Dilip Ratha, lead economist at the World Bank, leading scholars and migrants talk about the current use of remittances in the world today.
http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/a-commendable-web-anthology-on-remittances
(2) Fighting the spread of HIV:
Here is a discussion taken from Radio Australia (February 24, 2009) under the title 'financial meltdown could hit funds for fighting HIV/AIDS.' There are concerns that global financial crisis could make governments more cautious about spending the large sums necessary that are needed for fighting HIV/AIDS. The last ten years have seen a war declared on HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. But it's only been possible because rich nations have pledged vast sums of money. Now, the managers of the Global Fund say the combined US$600million in assistance to the Pacific and Indonesia is far from enough.
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200902/s2499918.htm
(3) Modern Enslavement of Migrant Domestic Workers by Foreign Diplomats in the United States by American Civil Liberties Union (2009)
Here you can listen to podcasts by FDW’s talking about their own experiences and the problems that they face under current legislation. Current law in the United States grants foreign diplomats immunity from civil actions and criminal prosecution under U.S. law;
Diplomatic immunity bars domestic workers from claiming their legal rights in court and, as a result, gives diplomats a free pass to mistreat domestic workers deliberately and without penalty. Domestic workers — who are most often women from poor countries — are led to believe that, in coming to the United States to work for diplomats, they will have good jobs with benefits and they will enjoy the protection of U.S. laws. Instead, too often, domestic workers find themselves in abusive, slave-like conditions and discover that their so-called rights are unenforceable
Link: http://www.aclu.org/womensrights/employ/domesticworkers.html
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