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Introduction According to the modern and progressive world, slavery does not exist anymore but if we look closely, then we will find that it exists in other varied forms. One of them is human trafficking.  According to Palermo Protocol United Nation 2000[1][2]which is a protocol developed to prevent, supress and punish trafficking in person defined […]

Human migration driven by climate change is a prevalent phenomenon in Bangladesh.  Bangladesh is a densely populated country with more than 165 million people, where one-third of the population lives in the coastal zone. The people of Bengal Delta are vulnerable to several environmental disasters and climate change factors. In response to this vulnerability, this

Introduction … but who are the real development heroes? Is it OXFAM or the bus driver from Somalia who generally works three jobs a month so that maybe he can send £400 back to a family in Mogadishu? I know that it is a rhetorical point to make but I think it is still a

May 12, 2021 The wave of independence witnessed across the world, particularly in Africa, in the 1950s and 1960s seems to have never finished. There is still one country in the African continent that is yet to realize its right to self-determination and freedom, and which has been waiting for a referendum on its independence

Syed Sajidur Rahman* May 6, 2021 Human mobility is mainly triggered by economic, socio-political, and environmental factors. All these factors follow the push and pull mechanism, the push factor forces people to move whereas the pull factor attracts people. Almost all migrations to date are following this pattern. Currently, the world is suffering from a

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a decline of annual growth in migration by 27% compared to 2019, as reported by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). The migration flow was lessened by an average of two million people in 2020. According to the Secretary-General of DESA “The report affirms that migration

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted remittance flows. Remittances are money or goods sent by migrants back to families and friends in their home country, and the strongest link between migration and development. In April of 2020, the World Bank predicted a drop of approximately 20% in remittance flows globally traceable to the pandemic, shutdowns,

Since the beginning of human history and due to a huge variety of reasons, people have always been moving from one place to another looking for better living conditions or, sadly, just to survive. Indeed, for a long time, many tribal populations remained substantially nomadic or, more generally, mobile because their lives were inextricably linked

Introduction According to Anderson (2006, p 6), “a nation is imagined when each member does not know most of their fellow community members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion”. This also seems to have happened among the Ethiopian diaspora communities and their