Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 200
Syrian Refugees Illegally Pushed Back
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Nov 20 (IPS) - Human rights groups have circulated evidence in the last few days indicating that Greece, Italy and Egypt illegally detain and push back Syrian refugees.
Libya’s Fragile Peace Cracks
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Nov 18 (IPS) - Car accident in Omar Mokhtar Avenue in downtown Tripoli. Nobody was injured but there's a bumper hanging off the back of a car. In just a few seconds, a group gathers around.
U.N. Climate Meet: "It's About Survival"
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 13 (IPS) - For the small island developing states of the Caribbean, there is nothing more important than the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place here at the national stadium of Poland from Nov. 11-22.
Seeking Asylum Can Mean Living on the Streets
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 13 (IPS) - Asylum seekers who travel to the United States to escape persecution in their home countries receive no assistance from the U.S. government and are not allowed to work for months, which activists say lead many to live on the streets or work illegally.
Small Islands Demand U.N. Protection
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 11 (IPS) - Threatened by rising seas, some of the world's small island developing states (SIDS) are demanding that the U.N.'s new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the protection of oceans and marine resources.
Caught Between Afghani and Pakistani
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 10 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Usmanullah Shah has never been to Afghanistan, the land of his forefathers. The son of Afghan parents who fled to Pakistan 34 years ago to escape war, he shudders at the thought of going there.
Secret Evidence Plays Growing Role in Canada's Immigration Courts
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Nov 09 (IPS) - Gossip and rumour based on secret intelligence sources may be all that is needed to deport a foreign national from Canada on national security grounds, legal experts say.
Syria’s Economy May Be Devastated for 30 Years
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 08 (IPS) - The almost three-year-old Syrian civil war has been a "silent war on human and economic development", destroying the ability of ordinary Syrian citizens to maintain basic livelihoods, according to a report launched here Wednesday by two United Nations agencies.
Dwindling Aid Slows Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Nov 07 (IPS) - When the first trains in almost two and a half decades started running through this war-ravaged town in Sri Lanka in mid-September, Sinngamuththu Jesudasan could not resist the temptation to go and have a look - repeatedly.
Fragile Peace Holds on a Syrian Island
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Oct 31 (IPS) - "The whole region is under control but be careful in the city centre," says a Kurdish militiaman at the eastern gate of Qamishli, 600 km northeast of capital Damascus, confirming rumours about breaches in Syria's relatively stable northeast.
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