The European Union on 29 January honoured UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the United Nations with its Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named after the Russian physicist and human rights activist. The award also honoured Sergio Vieira de Mello and other UN staff killed in the bomb attack in Baghdad on 19 August 2003.

Addressing the European Parliament in Brussels, the Secretary-General urged European leaders to manage migration by confronting the challenge of integration. In the face of a “silent human rights crisis” — caused by the exploitation, trafficking, and enslavement of desperate immigrants — the Secretary-General stressed that managing migration opened new vistas for international cooperation based on the challenge of integration.

The full text of the Secretary-General's speech is available at UN Chronicle Online, which regularly features stories on the challenge of migration, integration and diversity. The following articles, selected from past issues of the Chronicle, focus on how the United Nations responds to the global challenge of discrimination faced by migrant workers, trafficking, human rights and development, and education about integration.

Issue 2, 2003
Convention Establishes Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families

Issue 1, 2003
Hardship at Home / Hardship Abroad: The Migration 'System' Doesn't Work

Issue 3, 2002
Breaking Down Borders
By Zahra Sethna

Issue 1, 2002
DevelopmentWatch
Human Rights and Development
By Anita Inder Singh

Issue 2, 2001
What the United Nations Should Do about People Smuggling
By Philip Ruddock

Essay
Education and the Freedom from Exclusion
By Colette Mazzucelli

Issue 1, 2001
Prostitutes in High Demand in Kosovo
By Sergei Vinogradov

Issue 2, 1998
Uphill, Downhill Inter
State Migration and Economic Development

Links of interest on issues relating to migration

Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

International Organization for Migration

International Labour Organization

These stories and more can be found at UN Chronicle Online at www.un.org/chronicle.

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