Embracing Cheap Workers, Ignoring Their Welfare

Women are playing an increasing role in migration, accounting for about half of all migrants. Nations should urgently integrate gender and human rights into migration policies and cooperate to stop trafficking and prosecute traffickers.

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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

UNITED NATIONS – The top 10 countries hosting the largest number of international migrants have neither signed nor ratified a 1990 U.N. convention aimed at protecting the rights of migrant workers worldwide.

“It is obvious,” says a senior U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, “that these countries don’t want to be held accountable for the welfare of their migrants.”

The 10 countries — the United States, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, France, Saudi Arabia, Canada, India, United Kingdom and Spain — accounted for over 102 million migrants in 2005, according to a new U.N. report released Tuesday.

The United States was host to 38.4 million migrants last year, followed by Russia (12.1 million), Germany (10.1 million), Ukraine (6.8 million) and France (6.5 million).

The number of international migrants worldwide rose from about 175 million in 2000 to 191 million in 2005. And six out of 10 — about 115 million — live in rich countries where they are deprived of basic rights, while seven out of every 100 migrants are refugees.

According to the report, nearly half of all migrants are female, and female migrants outnumber male migrants in developed countries. Additionally, three-quarters of all international migrants are concentrated in just…

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