Africa: Migrants Increasingly Vulnerable Due to Global Recession, Says UN Trade Body

29 July 2009

Surging global unemployment triggered by the economic crisis is significantly affecting migrant workers, many of whom have lost their livelihoods and are returning to their home countries, experts said at a United Nations trade arm meeting today.

With 60 million people expected to be out of work by year's end, bringing the total number of people pushed out of their jobs by the recession to 240 million, "the crisis will be impacting quite significantly on the flow of migrants," Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said at the start of the one-day gathering in Geneva.

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