Events and training on labour migration
November 2015
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Public Lecture on “The urbanization-construction-migration nexus” at ILO headquarters
13 November 2015
Dr Sunil Kumar of the London School of Economics and Political Science will present findings from research undertaken in 5 cities in South Asia – Kabul, Dhaka, Chennai, Kathmandu and Lahore. This research is an important contribution to the literature on urbanisation and migration, as well as to the practice and policy domains by: (i) linking the growing power of urban consumption and investment with (ii) the demand for rural migrant contract construction labour (transient migrants) via (iii) large-scale urban construction projects (residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructure).
September 2013
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Meeting on "Migration and human rights: towards the 2013 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development", 4 September 2013
4 September 2013
This high-level meeting was organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and coincided with the launch of the OHCHR report on Migration and Human Rights: Improving Human Rights-Based Governance of International Migration, which was prepared in response to a decision of the UN Secretary-General's Policy Committee in December 2012.