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Advocates Celebrate Migrants Day but Remember Struggle that Continues

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published December 18, 2008.

Advocates Celebrate Migrants Day but Remember Struggle that Continues
Today is International Migrants Day - developed by the United Nations to draw attention to the plight of some 200 million migrants around the world. Prasad Kariyawasam [GUESSING, BUT KAR-EE-YAH-WASAM] is the former chair for the Committee on Migrant Workers. He says in this globalizing world, the number of people moving across borders is increasing exponentially. He said this phenomenon should be looked at in a "humane" manner.