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News headlines for “Immigration”, page 211
Give a Teenager a Camera, Watch the World Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 13 (IPS) - Today's youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say "go".
Greece Becomes Outpost in Turkey’s “Anti-Terror” Campaign
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Apr 13 (IPS) - Zeki Gorbuz, a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece, who was arrested on Feb. 12, remains detained today due to an international warrant that was transmitted by Turkish authorities to Greece just one day before his asylum interview. Turkish media were quick to report the arrest, describing Gorbuz as a radical leftist and regional leader of the Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLCP), which has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government.
Tunisia Now Exporting “Jihadis”
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 06 (IPS) - Tunisian families have begun to dread knocks on their doors, or late-night phone calls, fearing that the messenger will bear the news that their son has been smuggled out of the country to join the "jihad" in Syria.
Europe’s Invisible Children
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 02 (IPS) - Twenty-two-year-old Dario (not his real name) came to Belgium from Brazil in 2005. Just a teenager at the time, he told IPS he "came to escape the economic, social and political conditions in Brazil and to learn another language".
Border Control by Another Name
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Apr 01 (IPS) - Crossing the Belgian-German border in the heart of Europe should be a smooth experience, with no border controls, since the Schengen free movement area came into existence. Yet identity checks at this border and others inside Schengen are not uncommon, despite the contorted logic applied to prove their legality.
Refugees of Libyan War Protest at World Social Forum
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Mar 31 (IPS) - "We need a solution. The U.N. has created the problem, and they should do their work and fix it," says Bright, a young Nigerian stuck in the Choucha refugee camp in Tunisia, a few kilometres from the Libyan border.
Q&A: Portugal Neglects Undocumented Immigrants with AIDS
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, Mar 28 (IPS) - In 1996, Luís Mendão was shocked to learn that he had contracted HIV/AIDS, and that the infection was advanced because of the late diagnosis. Racing against time, he began to put his affairs in order and to get ready to face his death.
U.S. Fourth Graders Fight to Bring Home Deported Classmate
- Inter Press Service
BERKELEY, California, Mar 28 (IPS) - Rodrigo Javier Diaz Guzman was a fairly typical Berkeley, California kid. He loved playing baseball and video games, enjoyed school and got good grades, watched Ninjago on TV, and ate take-out burritos and Chinese food whenever he could.
Tug-of-War Over Nuclear Future
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Mar 26 (IPS) - Pushed and pulled in opposite directions, the future of Japan's energy plans in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago is emerging as a fight between national economic advancement and what anti-nuke activists call "the lives of the people".
Electricity for All but Those the Kariba Dam Displaced
- Inter Press Service
LUSITU, Zambia, Mar 26 (IPS) - Indigenous people who were displaced from the Zambezi Valley almost six decades ago for the construction of the Kariba Dam say they have not benefited from the development they made way for.
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