In Asia and the Pacific, migration is again on the rise. In 2020, almost 109 million people lived in a country other than that of their birth. They represented 2.3 per cent of the region’s population in 2020 and almost 38 per cent of the world’s international migrants. If managed properly, migration can benefit migrants, their families, as well as both the countries they come from and go to.

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Please find below quotes from APHR Board Member and Malaysian Member of Parliament Wong Chen, responding to the planned ASEAN Air Force Chiefs conference chaired by Myanmar junta Air Force Chief General Htun Aung, as well as the news that ASEAN has invited Myanmar junta representatives to a September security conference and training program in the United States:

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