Financial crisis taking toll on world migrants: UN chief

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MANILA, Oct 29 (AFP): The financial crisis that has battered most industrialised countries is taking a heavy toll on the world's millions of migrants, UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said today.
And if governments failed to protect the rights of some 200 million migrants who send precious remittances to their homes countries, the world would be in a more precarious condition, Ban said.
"Today, we face a cascade of national financial crises throughout the world. None of our economies are insulated," Ban told the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Manila.
He said global growth was slowing, leading to an increase in personal hardship and anxiety with many countries slipping into recession.
"Given these developments, it would be naive to think the current crisis will have no effect on the movement of people across borders, and on how publics perceive migration and the migrants in their midst," he said.