Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 217
A Million Hardships in Pakistan’s North
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 29 (IPS) - More than a million people displaced from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas by growing militancy and military operations are facing severe hardship after losing businesses and work.
Q&A: For Europe-Bound Migrants, Rights Violations Await
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 (IPS) - Along the borders of modern Europe, migrants have much to contend with, ranging from contradictory and confusing national immigration policies to horrific war zones, which these borders areas are slowly becoming.
President-elect Pushes New Mexican Image in Washington
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (IPS) - Ahead even of his Saturday swearing in, Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto met here on Tuesday with President Barack Obama to lay out a vision for a new bilateral relationship based more on economics and less on security issues.
Coastal Erosion Reaches Alarming Levels in Vietnam
- Inter Press Service
AN BIEN, Vietnam, Nov 25 (IPS) - For the last decade, many families in this southwestern Vietnamese province have been uprooted at least once every two years – but this is not due to economic or political upheaval.
War Tourism Skips Reality
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Nov 24 (IPS) - The tour guide's voice echoes around the dark, musty room, three stories underground. Fifty visitors – among them mothers holding infants, youths snapping pictures on mobile phones and grandparents leaning against the walls – are crammed into the narrow stairwell that leads down into the chamber, listening attentively to his every word.
Remittances Rise Despite West’s Economic Weakness
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Despite recession in Europe and a weak recovery in the United States, remittances to developing countries have been growing at a strong pace over the last year and are likely accelerate further through 2015, according to a new report released here Tuesday by the World Bank.
First Burning Homes, Now Border Patrols
- Inter Press Service
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Nov 20 (IPS) - In late August, Mohammad Saifuddin (not his real name), together with his wife, three daughters and son, fled the carnage of communal violence in western Myanmar's Rakhine province and headed for the border of neighbouring Bangladesh.
Cold and Dusty But Safe
- Inter Press Service
ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, Nov 19 (IPS) - No other camp for Syrians match the size of Za'atari. Equal rows of tents marked with the UNHCR logo spread to the horizon, dotted with lanterns and water tanks. Only a handful of people remain in sight, mostly on their way to or from the bathrooms.
Some U.S. Farmworkers Face “Inhuman Conditions”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) - A widely respected advocate for U.S. farmworker rights received a prestigious award on Capitol Hill here Wednesday, using the occasion to highlight pending state legislation that could significantly improve lives and working conditions that some have likened to modern-day slavery.
Home Is Not for Visiting
- Inter Press Service
SAFED, Northern Israel, Nov 12 (IPS) - It came like a bolt from the blue on this serene city perched in the hills of Galilee. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Israel's Channel Two television earlier this month, "I want to see Safed! It's my right to see it, but not to live there."
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