Recent migration research emphasizes the development potential of migration in both sending and receiving countries. These studies provide compelling evidence of the positive effect migration can have on poverty reduction, gender equality, health, education and the environment. However, other studies highlight the negative impact migration can have on sending countries, including issues associated with the [...]

All too soon the UN’s proclaimed International Year of Youth will be phased out. This will happen after the 12th of August 2011. For most youth development activists, I think the 12th of August 2011 which marks International Youth Day and the few days after should mark another time of stock-taking. As a young person [...]

Adora Svitak is author of three books — Flying Fingers, Dancing Fingers and Yang in Disguise. She is one of the TED Conference’s youngest speakers and the curator of youth event TEDxRedmond. Since age 7 she has been drumming up excitement about reading and writing among fellow students.You know that teenagers are using the internet for social networking, [...]

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday opened the General Assembly’s first-ever thematic debate on international migration and development with a strong call for an intelligent, cooperative approach, focused on the positive “to harness the unstoppable force of migration for the greater good”. The day-long informal debate, seen as a major contribution to the Assembly’s [...]

Well how does it feel to watch blockbuster movies? For me since childhood, I have been fond of Hollywood movies like Titanic. I remember I use to mimic Spiderman with my primary school mates. Lately I enjoyed watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What surprised me recently was a news item that “Ban Ki-moon, [...]