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Equal Rights and Opportunities for Safe Migration: A Pre-Requisite for Development Says IOM

On the Occassion of the  International Women’s Day we need to reaffirm the need to  help women migrants representing now 105 million of the people. This number equals to almost  half of the migrants worldwide.
Migration policy should  offer equal opportunities to migrate for both men and women.  Nevertheless, women  are still not offered the same opportunities for legal migration as their male counter-parts.
In the receiving countries, stereotypes and discrimination also often lead women to work in poorly regulated sectors exposing them to abuses including limited freedom of movement, withholding of wages and documents, low pay, physical violence and sexual abuse.
Female migrants send home approximately the same amount of money in remittances as male migrants. But research suggests that they tend to send a higher proportion of their income, which is generally lower than that of the men. They also usually send money more regularly and for longer periods of time.

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