Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 118
Morocco’s Migrant Workers Struggle to Send Money Home
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKECH, Morocco, Dec 10 (IPS) - Morocco may be hosting the United Nation's historic Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) conference. But when it comes to remittances—migrant employees, entrepreneurs and business owners all face the same challenge in Morocco: sending money legally to their home countries.
Migrant’s Compact Mischaracterized for Political Reasons
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKESH, Morocco, Dec 10 (IPS) - Alice Thomas is Refugees International's Climate Displacement Program Manager.
The fact that a handful of countries have indicated their intention not to come to Marrakesh to endorse the compact signifies how the issue of migration has been politicized and become a political flashpoint.
Senegal Hosts Unique Community Events on Irregular Migration
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Dec 10 (IPS) - It is four o'clock in the afternoon in Senegal's capital, Dakar, when pupils, students and workers begin to fill the municipal town halls of Grand Yoff and Sociocultural Centre Grand Médine to attend a unique community event - a film screening and a debate.
US Blasts Migrant’s Compact – Even as 180+ Countries Embrace it
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (IPS) - As UN delegates met in Morocco to adopt a global compact to protect the rights and safety of refugees and migrants (GCM), the Trump administration launched a blistering attack condemning it as a violation of national sovereignty.
Communities Meet to Share and Discuss Experiences of Migration in Dakar
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Dec 10 (IPS) - Communities in Senegal's capital, Dakar, have been meeting across the city to watch a 45-minute documentary film made by returnee migrants, with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
U.N. Remains Defiant Amid Last Minute U-turns on Global Compact for Migration
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKECH, Morocco, Dec 10 (IPS) - Amidst negative sentiments and last-minute withdrawals from the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) by some member countries, the United Nations says the regrettable decisions are being fuelled by misinformation.
70 Years since the Universal Declaration on Human Rights – Hope Against Hope
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dec 10 (IPS) - "Save the Children estimates that 84,701 children under five have died in Yemen from untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition between April 2015 and October 2018."
"The grim analysis of United Nations data comes as intense fighting has again erupted in Yemen's strategic port city of Hodeidah."
A UN Conference Undermined by 11th Hour Withdrawals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 07 (IPS) - When the long-awaited UN conference focusing on the rights and safety of migrants and refugees takes off in Morocco, it will be a rare, if not an unprecedented meeting, for one reason: the withdrawal of at least seven member states almost at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour.
South Sudan Faces one of the World’s Worst Displacement Crises
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Nov 30 (IPS) - Daniel Sullivan is Senior Advocate for Human Rights at Refugees International
South Sudan is facing one of the worst displacement crises in the world today. More than half of the population is food insecure and, if not for international humanitarian aid, the country would almost certainly have already faced famine.
Migrants Send Record Amounts to Home Countries, but Overall Poverty Pertains
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Nov 30 (IPS) - At the end of this year, migrants will have sent 466 billion dollars to family and friends in their countries of origin. Despite this record amount these remittances have little to no effect on the dire economic state of affairs in those home countries. Earlier this week in Brussels, a group of experts convened to think of ways to make the sent money work in a way that benefits more than just a few lucky families.
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