MANSUR MIROVALEV
The Associated Press
MOSCOW - Even by the standards of Moscow's xenophobic thugs it was a horrific attack: A group of skinheads gunned down Tajik migrant Salokhiddin Azizov on a Moscow region street, cut off his head and emailed a picture of the gruesome trophy to rights groups.
This week, Azizov was buried in his mountain village , a funeral in which mourners' grief mixed with rage. "They ... cursed Moscow," Azizov's uncle, Rakhmatsho, told The Associated Press on Thursday by telephone.
Like millions of others from impoverished former Soviet republics, the 20-year-old Azizov, who was killed Dec. 5, fled poverty for a low-paying job in Moscow's once-booming economy. Now, experts say, the rapidly spreading economic crisis , Russia's worst in a decade , has triggered a spike in hate attacks against non-Slavic migrants with Asian or Middle-Eastern features.
More than 100 foreigners have been killed in apparent hate attacks this year, four times more than in 2004, according to the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights.
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United Nations: New Study Seeks To Show Changing Face Of Migration In Southern Africa As Women Play Bigger Role In Development Through Remittances
INSTRAW) -- A new study seeks to raise awareness of women's changing roles in migration and assess the impact of remittances sent by women migrants on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.
Gender, Remittances and Development: Preliminary Findings from Selected SADC Countries, published by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), highlights the growing impact of women's migration on households, families and communities in selected countries of SADC.
The study focuses on female migration from and between six SADC countries -- Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, principally to South Africa. Through a combination of literature review, focus group discussions, and personal interviews, the study documents the changing role of women within migratory flows in Southern Africa, explores the potential impact of the increase in women who migrate independently as heads of households, as well as migrants' access to financial and other services. [Read more]
Gender, Remittances and Development: Preliminary Findings from Selected SADC Countries, published by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), highlights the growing impact of women's migration on households, families and communities in selected countries of SADC.
The study focuses on female migration from and between six SADC countries -- Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, principally to South Africa. Through a combination of literature review, focus group discussions, and personal interviews, the study documents the changing role of women within migratory flows in Southern Africa, explores the potential impact of the increase in women who migrate independently as heads of households, as well as migrants' access to financial and other services. [Read more]
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