The Missing Right - The right to social security
A ‘rights-based’ twist is what Sonia Gandhi, the Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, gives to the achievements of the UPA I & II governments , while announcing the second year report card of the UPA-II government to the people of India on May 22, 2011.
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Turning Old: A Domestic Workers’ Nightmare
Tithli Ben migrated to Delhi in 1969 at the age of 19 after marriage to Dumru Bhai, a mechanic working in a small workshop in Mehrauli in South Delhi.
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CSD Calls for Observing the Rights of Migrants
Mexico is a country of migration, a land of mixed origin,” said Ms Margarita Zavala, Mexico’s First Lady, inaugurating the fourth edition of Civil Society Days (CSD) of Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) at the International Convention Centre, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on 7 November 2010
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GFMD: Celebrating Migration or a Proxy War?
“Preventing migration is against sovereignty; US could not have become the largest economy in the world without the labour of the Latin American workers in the United States,” declared C. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of United Mexican States (Mexico) on 9 November 2010, at the International C
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