Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 126
Displaced Pashtuns Return to Find Homes "Teeming" with Landmines
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Apr 26 (IPS) - "If I'm assured that my home and my village has been de-mined, I'd be the first to return with my family," says 54-year old Mohammad Mumtaz Khan.
Myanmar Unlikely to Resolve Rohingya Problem Without International Help
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Apr 25 (IPS) - Trevor Wilson is a retired Australian diplomat who served as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar from 2000-03, and has been Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University since 2003.The lead-up to the Australia-ASEAN Summit in Sydney on 16-18 March 2018 was characterised by widespread and well-publicised protests in Sydney against human rights abuses occurring in several ASEAN member countries – namely Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam.
The Nowhere People: Rohingyas in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Apr 25 (IPS) - A devastating fire in a shanty at Kalindi Kunj, a New Delhi suburb, that gutted the homes of 226 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including 100 women and 50 children, has trained a spotlight on India's ad hoc policy on international migrants.
The Gang Rape and Murder of an 8 Year Old Child in India
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 23 (IPS) - Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya. Grotesque and barbaric, is the only way to describe the rape and murder of an 8 year old child, in a country where women and girls are traditionally revered as Goddesses.
We Are Migrants: Teasing Italian taste buds
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 23 (IPS) - Atik and Said have many things in common. They are both from Bangladesh, both are about the same age , in their thirties and , they are both migrant workers in an Italian restaurant in the heart of Rome, a stone's throw from Saint Peter's Basilica. They are not the only migrants working in the food service industry in Italy, where most of the pizza makers today are Egyptians and most of the Chefs are either Bangladeshis or North Africans. This is an interesting phenomenon in a country known for its cuisine where many of the Chefs today are not locals but foreigners.
Homebound: Hardship Awaits Internally Displaced Iraqis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 18 (IPS) - With upcoming elections in May, the Iraqi government is urging Internally Displaced People (IDPs) to return home. After the defeat of ISIS in December 2017, an increase in security and number of returnees to their region of origin is expected; however, many IDPs see no way to leave the camps just yet.
Food Is the Answer: Perugia International Journalism Festival
- Inter Press Service
PERUGIA, Italy, Apr 13 (IPS) - The twelfth International Journalism Festival on April 12-15 has drawn 710 speakers from 50 different countries, becoming the biggest journalism festival in Europe.
First They Came for the Rohingya
- Inter Press Service
Apr 12 (IPS) - Other ethnic minorities will be Myanmar's next victims.In recent months, international media coverage of Myanmar has focused on the plight of the Rohingya people in the west of the country. And for good reason: Since August 2017, brutal army attacks on this Muslim ethnic minority have sent more than 750,000 people — 90 percent of the Rohingya population living in Rakhine state — fleeing over the border to Bangladesh, in what can only be described as a coordinated campaign of genocide.
For Many Migrants, No Land Is Sweeter Than Home
- Inter Press Service
RANGPUR, Bangladesh, Apr 09 (IPS) - Most migrants to Europe, Australia and the United States from Rangpur in northern Bangladesh leave home at a young age and return when they have just passed middle age.
“International Solidarity” at Yemen Donor Conference
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 05 (IPS) - The international community has pledged over two billion dollars towards urgently needed humanitarian assistance to Yemen during a UN event.
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