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News headlines for “Immigration”, page 143
Promise or Peril? Africa’s 830 Million Young People by 2050
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Ghana / NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 11 (IPS) - Last month, Spanish charity workers rescued 167 migrants arriving from Africa aboard a small boat.
Smugglers Throw Hundreds of African Migrants Off Boats Headed to Yemen
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Aug 11 (IPS) - A total of 300 migrants have reportedly been forced from boats over the past two days by smugglers off the coast of Yemen – many feared dead or missing, the United Nations migration agency has reported.
Migrants Crossing US-Mexico Border Dying at Faster Rate. More Deaths in Mediterranean
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Aug 07 (IPS) - While the number of migrants deaths in the Mediterranean Sea has so far in 2017 exceeded 2,350 victims for the fourth consecutive year, migrants crossing the United States-Mexico border are dying at a faster rate in 2017 than in past years, the UN migration agency reports.
Zaatari Camp Marks Fifth Year With 80,000 Refugees
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 01 (IPS) - Jordan's Zaatari camp, which opened in 2012 as a makeshift camp to house Syrian refugees fleeing the war, marked its fifth year on June 28.
It’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. What Do We Need to Do Now?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jul 31 (IPS) - It is believed that millions are currently victims of trafficking in persons around the world. It is almost impossible to think about each one of those numbers as individual human beings and it can feel like an insurmountable problem. But it isn't. And on this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons we must believe that not only can we make a dent but that we can make significant inroads into eliminating it.
African Migrant Women Face “Shocking Sexual Abuse” on Journey to Europe
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 28 (IPS) - Up to 80 per cent of Nigerian migrant women and girls arriving on Europe's shores in Italy could potentially be sex trafficking victims, spotlighting the horrific levels of abuse and violence migrants face along their arduous journeys for a better future, according to a UN study.
No Access to Justice for Migrant Workers in South-East Asia
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 28 (IPS) - Access to justice is often out of reach for migrant workers in South-east Asia, the United Nations labour agency reported in a study that shows that non-governmental organisations are assisting more often than government officials or trade unions.
Millions of Women and Children for Sale for Sex, Slavery, Organs...
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 28 (IPS) - It is happening now. Millions of humans are forced to flee armed conflicts, climate change, inequalities, and extreme poverty. They fall easy prey to traffickers lurking anyone who can be subjected to sexual exploitation, forced labour and even sell their skin and organs.
Migrants – The Increasingly Expensive Deadly Voyages
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 28 (IPS) - They borrow huge amounts of money. They sell all their modest properties. They suffer brutalities on the hands of their own countries "security" forces to prevent them from fleeing wars, droughts, floods, lack of food, extreme poverty.
UN Appoints Experts to DRC’s Kasai to Probe Harrowing Rights Abuses
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 (IPS) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, appointed a team of three international experts yesterday to collect information and raise awareness about grave atrocities in the ongoing conflict in the remote Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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