Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 163
A Refugee Crisis with No End in Sight
- Inter Press Service
GAZA, Palestine, May 18 (IPS) - "We don't want charity, we want a long-term solution."
OPINION: Fear Is not a Good Counsellor
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 16 (IPS) - A new spectre is haunting the world. It is not the spectre of communism, as Marx's Manifesto famously proclaimed. It is the spectre of fear, which has increasingly become the rationale behind politics. And, as the old proverb says, fear is not a good counselor.
Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council: Assessment & Way Forward
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 14 (IPS) - In my personal capacity as an academic from the Global South and a retired international civil servant, I undertook a study for the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue which was published in November 2014. This was at a time when I had no idea that I would later become a member of this elite group of Special Procedures Mandate Holder. The study is entitled "In Defence of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council: An alternative narrative from the South".
Why Set Up a Shell Company in Panama?
- Inter Press Service
Daylesford, Australia, May 12 (IPS) - A previously little-known law firm called Mossack Fonseca, based in Panama, has recently been exposed as one of the world's major creators of ‘shell companies', that is, corporate structures that can be used to hide the ownership of assets. This can be done legally but shell companies of this nature are widely used for illegal purposes such as tax evasion and money laundering of proceeds from criminal activity.
OPINION: Greece, the Punching Ball of Germany
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 11 (IPS) - Greece is again in the media, because a new negotiation is due between the embattled country and its creditors. The North-South divide of Europe is coming back with force (while the East-West relationship is increasingly looking as beyond repair). The German minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble , has come back with his peculiar view of the economy as a branch of moral and ethical discipline, and not as a reading of reality. He has asked the Greeks "to not get distracted" by the refugees crisis, and not forget their primary task, which is to pay their debt. The request is to cut 2% of the Gross National Product; in case there will not be a 3.5% budget surplus within 2018.
Mass Migration, EU, European Nationalisms
- Inter Press Service
Antwerp, Alfaz, May 11 (IPS) - We are dealing with mass migration, basically into EU, and European nationalisms, many in favor of exits from the EU.
Why this mass migration, maybe to the point of Völkerwanderung, mainly into EU–but then what kind of EU–and why the European nationalisms now found one way or the other in many member states?
Kenyan Refugee Camp Closures will have Disastrous Consequences
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - The Kenyan government's decision to close its refugee camps will have disastrous consequences and must be reconsidered, international organisations have stated.
UN Releases Plan to Increase Refugee Responsibility Sharing
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) - The UN wants to create a new Global Compact to encourage countries to share the responsibility for hosting the 19 million refugees who have fled their home countries.
Is the System Broke or Broken?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 04 (IPS) - Though the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit may seem timely, it brings up many questions about the world humanitarian system; is it broke or broken?
Free Press a Casualty of Pakistan's Terror War
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, May 02 (IPS) - Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is widely viewed as one of the world's most dangerous places to be a journalist, with at least 14 killed since 2005 and a dozen of those cases still unsolved, according to local and international groups.
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