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UNFPA:
State of the World Population 2006
A
Passage to Hope
Women
and International Migration
UNFPA,
the United Nations Population Fund, September
2006
Full
Report PDF file [116p.] at: http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/pdf/en_sowp06.pdf
“….Today, half of
all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls. Yet, despite
substantial contributions to both their families at home and communities abroad,
the needs of migrant women continue to be overlooked and ignored.
This
year’s State of World Population
report, A Passage to
Hope: Women and International Migration, examines the
scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to
support families and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to
trafficking, exploitation and abuse.
The
report, produced and published every year by UNFPA, the United Nations
Population Fund, reveals that although migrant women contribute billions of
dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard both their
contributions and their vulnerability—even though female migrants tend to send a
much higher proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male
counterparts ….”
Content:
Introduction: http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/english/introduction.html
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