Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 213
Fighting Sex Trafficking in Brazil - in Fiction and Reality
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 11 (IPS) - The story generally begins in Brazil's hinterland, with a pretty, young woman from a disadvantaged background and with little formal education, who is drawn in by false promises and ends up in a sex trade network that stretches overseas.
North Kivu Refugees Hope to Find Peace in Uganda
- Inter Press Service
NYAKABANDE, Uganda, Mar 07 (IPS) - As dawn rises over Nyakabande, a village in southwestern Uganda, people line up in front of a reception tent, exhausted and carrying only the few belongings they could bring across the border.
UNRWA Head Warns of Palestinian Crisis in Syria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 07 (IPS) - A top United Nations official is warning that the plight of Palestinian refugees is being neglected amidst the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Immigrant Groups Say Spanish Hospitality in Danger
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 04 (IPS) - "We used to be seen as really useful, and now we're a pain in the neck," said Roberto Suárez, an Ecuadorian who was complaining about proposed fines or prison sentences that could target Spanish citizens who help undocumented immigrants.
Task Force Urges Joint U.S.-Mexico Approach to Border
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 01 (IPS) - A group of business executives, civil society leaders, policy experts and former government officials from Mexico and the United States are recommending that the two countries expand cooperative law-enforcement efforts along the border.
To Walk Down The Street
- Inter Press Service
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank, Mar 01 (IPS) - Molotov cocktails, clouds of teargas, live gunfire, ambulance sirens wailing as they ferried the wounded, and round after round of rubber-coated metal bullets exploding in the street…these were familiar scenes in Palestinian protest.
U.S. Security Establishment Increasingly Worried about Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (IPS) - More than three dozen national security officials, members of Congress and military leaders are warning of the threat climate change poses to U.S. national security, the latest in an indicator that U.S. intelligence and national security circles are increasingly worried about a warming planet.
24 Nails Dug Into Body, Luckily
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 27 (IPS) - Lahandapurege Ariyawathie feels she got off lightly - if returning home with 24 nails embedded in your body is lucky.
Modern Slavery Rears its Ugly Head in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 27 (IPS) - In recent years, Chile has become a source, transit, and destination hub for human trafficking victims, experts say. According to judicial authorities, forced labour and sexual exploitation are the crimes most frequently associated with this "modern form of slavery".
U.N. to Build Bridges Battling "Merchants of Hate"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - Amidst the rising tide of racial and religious intolerance worldwide - including xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) will meet in the Austrian capital of Vienna later this week to strengthen cross-cultural relations in a world it describes as "alarmingly out of balance".
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