| ISRAEL: New report highlights exploitation of migrant workers |
 TEL AVIV, 30 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to a 28 October report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning for the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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In Brief: Travel restrictions hit Gaza students |  TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Some 838 students formally offered places and/or enrolled at foreign universities are unable to leave Gaza, according to the Palestinian interior ministry and Gisha, an NGO campaigning for freedom of movement.
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ISRAEL: 1,200 children face deportation |  TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai has said he will not grant legal status to some 1,200 children of migrant workers, triggering an anti-deportation campaign led by several NGOs.
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In Brief: Migration myths dispelled in UNDP report |  BANGKOK, 5 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Most migrants do not move from developing to developed countries, and when they do, rather than hurting host economies, they benefit them, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
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EGYPT-ISRAEL: How many migrants are dying at the border? |  TEL AVIV, 30 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Rights groups such as Amnesty International have called on the Egyptian authorities to "urgently rein in their border security forces" after seven African asylum-seekers were killed in September trying to cross into Israel on foot, but some Israeli NGOs and soldiers say the death toll at the border is far higher.
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LEBANON: Plight of the trafficked domestic worker |  BEIRUT, 30 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Abbey was a nurse at a French hospital in Madagascar when a recruitment agency suggested to her boss that she travel to Lebanon for three years to work and learn Arabic so she could better care for the Arab sailors whose ships docked at the Indian Ocean island.
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In Brief: Climate-related disasters force 20 million out of homes in 2008 |  JOHANNESBURG, 23 September 2009 (IRIN Global) - Climate related natural disasters like droughts, hurricanes and floods forced 20 million people - slightly less than the population of Australia - out of their homes in 2008 alone said a new study, making a strong case for regularly monitoring displacement in the context of climate change.
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YEMEN: Scores dead or missing at start of smuggling season |  SANAA, 17 September 2009 (IRIN Global) - At least 16 Africans died, and 49 others are missing and presumed dead, in three separate incidents as boats smuggling them from Somalia to Yemen capsized in the Gulf of Aden on 13 and 14 September, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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In Brief: Up to 10 percent of doctors per year might be leaving South Africa |  JOHANNESBURG, 31 August 2009 (IRIN Global) - As much as 10 percent of South Africa's doctors might have left the country in 2008 to work in developed countries, said local media reports.
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SOMALIA-YEMEN: Registration programme "to weed out illegal migrants" |  SANAA, 22 July 2009 (IRIN Global) - A campaign to register Somali refugees with the aim of creating a government database and identifying illegal African migrants is under way in Yemen, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
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