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News headlines for “Immigration”, page 192
Here Are the Real Victims of Pakistan’s War on the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 01 (IPS) - Three days ago, Rameela Bibi was the mother of a month-old baby boy. He died in her arms on Jun. 28, of a chest infection that he contracted when the family fled their home in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, where a full-scale military offensive against the Taliban has forced nearly half a million people to flee.
Obama Proposes “Aggressive Deterrence” for Child Migrants
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 30 (IPS) - Facing what some have dubbed a refugee crisis, President Barack Obama is asking for new powers that would significantly speed up the deportation process for tens of thousands of unaccompanied children recently arrived at the southern U.S. border.
Ethnic Cleansing Goes Unpunished in the ‘Land of the Pure’
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jun 30 (IPS) - It has been two years since he survived an attack on his life, but 24-year-old Quwat Haider, a member of Pakistan's minority Hazara community, still finds it hard to narrate the events that scarred him for life.
U.S. Reaction to New Immigrant Influx Could Violate International Law
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 29 (IPS) - Rights advocates and lawmakers are expressing increased concern over the United States' handling of the sudden influx of tens of thousands of undocumented child and female migrants from Central America.
OP-ED: Surging Violence Against Women in Iraq
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 27 (IPS) - Shortly after their conquest of Mosul, young men armed with assault rifles went door to door in Iraq's second-largest city, taking "women who are not owned" for jihad al-nikah, or sex jihad.
Zimbabwe’s Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster - We Visit the 18,000 Forcibly Relocated to Ruling Party Farm
- Inter Press Service
MASVINGO, Zimbabwe, Jun 25 (IPS) - As the villagers sit around the flickering fire on a pitch-black night lit only by the blurry moon, they speak, recounting how it all began.
They take turns, sometimes talking over each other to have their own experiences heard. When the old man speaks, everyone listens. "It was my first time riding a helicopter," John Moyo* remembers.
EU Aims to Scuttle Treaty on Human Rights Abuses
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 24 (IPS) - When the United Nations began negotiating a Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations (TNCs) back in the 1970s, the proposal never got off the ground because of vigourous opposition both from the powerful business community and its Western allies.
Tensions between CAR Refugees and Cameroonians Escalate over Depleting Resources
- Inter Press Service
GUIWA, Cameroon, Jun 24 (IPS) - Central African Republic refugees living in Cameroon's East Region are increasingly becoming frustrated about their deteriorating living conditions and their inability to support themselves as conflict between them and and local villagers has escalated over depleting resources.
Military Offensive Deepens Housing Crisis in Northern Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 23 (IPS) - Shaukat Ali, a shopkeeper originally hailing from Miramshah in the Northern Waziristan Agency of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), looks exhausted as he sits outside a makeshift shelter with his family of 10.
Mosul Refugees Victims of "Victory of the Revolution”
- Inter Press Service
KHAZAR, Iraq, Jun 15 (IPS) - "People with long beards and dressed like Afghans broke into our neighbourhood after they had bombed it. We were lucky to escape from that nightmare," Aum Ahmad, a46-year-old woman from Mosul – 400 km northwest of Baghdad – told IPS from the recently set up Khazar refugee camp, 25 km east of the besieged city.
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