The Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) has launched a migrant and development photo and video competition.

To participate, all you have to do is to show, in no more than a 10-minute video or one photograph, how migrants contribute to the development of countries of origin and/or countries of residence.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has urged governments to adopt more flexible forms of citizenship, ensure that forced migrants have necessary support to find work and are integrated into their new communities.

The IFRC also called for more relaxed approaches to cross-border mobility and better protection against crime and violence.

TERRE DES FEMMES Switzerland has produced together with the African Mirror Foundation, a videoclip against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Girls who are forced to marry are committed to being in slavery like marriages for the rest of their lives. Girls who are victims of servile marriages experience domestic servitude, sexual slavery and suffer from violations to their right to health, education, non-discrimination and freedom from physical, psychological and sexual violence.

Every year an estimate of 10 million girls are married before they reach 18. In the most appalling of these cases, little girls as young as eight years old are being married off to men who may be three or four times their age.