Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 193
Ghost of the LTTE Flickers in Malaysia
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Jun 12 (IPS) - The recent arrest and deportation from Malaysia of three Sri Lankan Tamils on U.N. refugee status, under suspicion of trying to revive the disbanded Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has raised questions about regional security and minority politics.
U.S. Education System Not Helping Immigrant Parents
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 05 (IPS) - Immigrant parents in the United States face serious challenges accessing early elementary programmes for their children, advocates here are warning.
Immigrants Face Indefinite Detention in Greece
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, May 28 (IPS) - The evolution of immigration and border control policy in Greece and its interdependence with European funding suggests an agenda which has been decided above national legislatures with strong coordination between European political actors and economic interests, while ignoring the human suffering it produces.
Somalia Warns Kenyan Refugee Expulsion Will Lead to ‘Chaos and Anarchy'
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 27 (IPS) - Somalia's Minister for Interior and Federalism Affairs Mohamud Moalim Yahye has told IPS that the hasty repatriation and mass deportation of its citizens by Kenya could compromise recent, critical security improvements made by regional governments against the Islamic extremist group, Al-Shabaab.
Fiji Leads Pacific Region on Climate Adaptation Efforts
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, May 25 (IPS) - Still a long way off in many parts of the world, climate displacement is already a reality in the Pacific Islands, where rising seas are contaminating fresh water and agricultural land, and rendering some coastal areas uninhabitable.
Syrian Rebel-held Mountain Villages Preparing for Bigger Battles
- Inter Press Service
JABAL AL-AKRAD (SYRIA), May 20 (IPS) - In the mountains east of the coastal port of government-held Latakia, three years of regime bombardment has left swaths of blackened stumps in the mountain forests and crumbling concrete structures in Sunni villages, most of whose inhabitants support opposition forces.
Syrian Doctors Grapple With Medical Emergency and Ethics
- Inter Press Service
REYHANLI (TURKEY), May 19 (IPS) - As once-eliminated diseases resurface and barrel bombs and alleged chlorine attacks target civilians, doctors in rebel-held areas and across the border struggle with issues of how best to serve their profession.
Why Nigeria Couldn’t Keep Schoolgirls Safe and Why Paris Summit May Offer Hope
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, May 16 (IPS) - Tomorrow Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will meet other heads of state at a security summit in Paris, France to focus on ways of combatting Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group which kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April.
Bulgaria, No Country For Syrian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Warsaw, May 15 (IPS) - Since November last year, Bulgaria has virtually closed its borders to an inflow of Syrian asylum seekers and other migrants trying to enter the country from Turkey, while EU institutions concerned appear to have acquiesced to this.
Migration as a Network for Development
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 10 (IPS) - On the eve of a major international conference on migration in Stockholm, a major think tank here is calling on the delegates from more than 150 countries to recognise the importance of migration in forging development policies.
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