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The Organization of American States (OAS) – an organization made up of 35 independent states across the Americas and founded for the purposes of regional solidarity - is to launch an inquiry into the Dominican Republic's migration policies; the country has agreed to cooperate with the investigation. Member Countries of OAS include the USA, Canada and Mexico.

An OAS team will be sent to the Dominican Republic's capital city, Santo Domingo, to investigate why thousands of migrants have left for Haiti in recent weeks.

Hungary is taking steps to make it difficult for asylum seekers to claim asylum in their Country. So far this year nearly 72,000 asylum seekers have reached Hungary via the border with Serbia. Most asylum seekers do not stay in Hungary. They leave for wealthier Western European Countries in the EU such as Germany. This is relatively easy to do as Hungary is in the Schengen zone which allows free movement in 26 European Countries.

Vietnam has lifted its visa requirement for Britons for a limited time only in an effort to attract more tourists to the country, provided that you do not intend to stay for longer than 15 days.

From July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, travel to Vietnam for Britons will be visa-free for visits for up to fifteen days according to an announcement made by tour operators at the Mekong Tourism Forum, an independent body that provides guidance and support for increasing tourism.

The response by the international community to the worst refugee crisis since WWII has been labelled a 'shameful failure' by Amnesty International in a scathing report released today. It's been estimated that more than 50 million refugee immigrants fleeing conflicts in places such as war-torn Syria, Eritrea and Sub-Saharan Africa have been left stateless and living in "unbearable conditions".

Beginning in the 1970s the Philippines has focused on exporting labor overseas. In the first years of this new policy the numbers were relatively small, in the tens of thousands, but this continually grew until by 2005 over a million Filipinos were working outside the country.

By 2016, the income generated from Call-Centers in the Philippines may exceed the income from remittances by expatriate workers to the Philippines; for decades this has been the single largest source of foreign exchange for the country.

Over the past ten years, business process outsourcing (BPO) which encompasses call centers, health-care information management and computer animation, etc. has emerged as one of the fastest-growing segments of the country's $272 billion economy.