Student visa rules tightened as grassroots opposition grows

By Hilary Aked, London Student, http://www.london-student.net/2010/02/09/student-visa-rules-tightened-as-grassroots-opposition-grows/ 9 February 2010 The Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced a further tightening of student visa rules yesterday in a move which could cut the number of visas issues by tens of thousands. Non-EU students will have to be able to speak English to just below GCSE standard, when formerly they could gain [...]

Police ‘ignore’ rights of sex trafficking victims

Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/09/uk-human-rights-sex-trafficking 9 February 2010 Human rights watchdog suspects sexual exploitation of overseas women being wrongly treated as immigration issue The police and immigration services may be illegally ignoring the human rights of foreign women who have been forced into prostitution, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has alleged. The commission suspects the sexual exploitation of [...]

Vote for Migrants’ Rights website launch

Vote for Migrants Rights! is a joint project of Kanlungan,  Migrante UK and CHRP-UK, that aims to highlight pertinent issues and aspirations of Filipino migrants in the UK and their families that they want to put forward this Philippine election season. The project aims to gather issues and opinions from different Filipino migrant community organisations and [...]

Human Rights Watch Press release

February 4, 2010 (Milan) – Prosecutions of suspects in the racist attacks early this month against migrants in Rosarno, Italy are lagging, Human Rights Watch said today. But migrants accused of participating in the unrest have already been arrested, tried, and convicted. One month after the targeted racist attacks on African seasonal migrant workers on January 7 [...]

OFW group opposes compulsory Pag-IBIG membership

By Jerome Aning, Philippine Daily Inquirern http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100204-251311/OFW-group-opposes-compulsory-Pag-IBIG-membership 4 February 2010 MANILA, Philippines — An alliance of overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East questioned the Philippine government’s decision, on Thursday, to include all OFWs from mandatory coverage in the Home Development Mutual (Pag-IBIG) Fund. Calling the compulsory membership a bad pre-Valentine’s Day gift, Migrante-Middle East said contributions to [...]