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News headlines for “Immigration”, page 212
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.
Climate Change Now Seen as Security Threat Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 22 (IPS) - Defence establishments around the world increasingly see climate change as posing potentially serious threats to national and international security, according to a review of high-level statements by the world's governments released here Thursday.
U.S. Looks to Overhaul Massive Immigration Detention System
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) - Rights groups and government officials here have been testifying in a string of hearings, before both bodies of the U.S. Congress, on how to overhaul the United States' huge immigration detention system, the scope of which has expanded massively in recent years in ways that some suggest impinge on civil and human rights.
Filipino Workers Urge Overhaul of U.S. Guest Worker Policies
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - A spate of legal battles in the southern state of Louisiana has shed new light on the unfair recruitment and employment practices of Filipino guest workers at several companies in the United States.
‘Born in War, Grown up in War, Now Time for Rehabilitation’
- Inter Press Service
NZARA, South Sudan, Mar 19 (IPS) - Sungu Mizele, a Congolese national living in Yambio, in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state, earns a living selling the fruit and vegetables that she grows in her backyard, at the local town market. On average, she earns nine dollars a day. But on a good day, when she has fresh supplies, she can earn up to 31 dollars.
Foreigners Take Centre Stage in Election Race
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Mar 18 (IPS) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's comments about foreigners taking Australian jobs in a speech made last week in Rooty Hill, the working-class heartland of Sydney's western suburbs, has brought issues of immigration, asylum and race back into election campaigning.
European Commission Bankrolls Anti-Immigrant Policies
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Mar 17 (IPS) - As fighting rages on throughout Syria, civilian families desperate to escape are fleeing west to Greece.
Officials Turn Blind Eye to Abuse of Asylum Seekers
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Faraj Alhamauun, a Syrian national now residing in Istanbul, was detained while crossing Greece, in the hopes of heading north, last September.
Young Spaniards Exiled by Unemployment
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 13 (IPS) - "They wanted to hire me, and that was something that hadn't ever happened to me before," says Marta Seror, a 25-year-old college graduate from Spain who is now working in an outsourcing company in Poland.
At Home, and Not at Home
- Inter Press Service
WADI KHALED, Northern Lebanon, Mar 12 (IPS) - The influx of hundreds of thousands of war-weary refugees from Syria to Lebanon is putting an almost unbearable strain on many of the communities that have taken them into their homes. A domestic economic crisis compounded by the arrival of such large numbers of refugees is weighing heavily on many impoverished areas.
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