Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 222
Shelters for Undocumented Migrants under Threat in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 23 (IPS) - Two years after the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico, shelters for undocumented migrants are facing challenges and threats, due to the rise in the number of people seeking assistance, the lack of solidarity on the part of local communities, pressure from organised crime, and a lack of adequate public policies addressing the problem of migration.
Q&A: Brazil Invited to Join U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 21 (IPS) - The policy of pacification of Rio de Janeiro’s violent favelas, or shantytowns, could serve as a model in some respects in Palestinian refugee camps, says Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees, in this interview with IPS.
Immigration Policies Wreak Unseen Havoc on U.S. Communities
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (IPS) - Deportation is a devastating experience for a family, breaking it apart and leading to emotional and mental stress for its members. But a new report from the Centre for American Progress shows that such duress extends beyond families and into the larger community as a whole.
Immigrants’ Fear Palpable in Arizona
- Inter Press Service
TUCSON, Arizona, Aug 18 (IPS) - Fear stalks the streets in the U.S. state of Arizona. Seven-year-old Matthew feels it when his mother crosses the line permitted by the guards of the Tent City - an extension of the Maricopa County Jail - to be photographed with a sign protesting the imprisonment of immigrants.
Lean Times Get Leaner in Northern Cote d’Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
KORHOGO, Cote d’Ivoire, Aug 14 (IPS) - Salimata Coulibaly, director of a medical centre in the town of Korhogo in the northern Cote d’Ivoire region of Savanes, stood before a chart displaying before-and-after photos of local children – one taken when each child arrived at the centre, and one after he or she responded to treatment for malnutrition.
Back Home With Help and Hope
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 10 (IPS) - Thousands who fled their homes in the Taliban-led violence over the past three years have now returned to rebuild their lives, and their homes.
Persecuted Libyans Struggle to Be Heard
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Aug 08 (IPS) - Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by Libya’s volatile militias, politically persecuted Somalis forcibly repatriated to Mogadishu, and hundreds of boat people dying trying to flee Libya for a better life in Europe.
East End's First Muslim Mayor Unfazed by Racist Press Attacks
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 07 (IPS) - The London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the “East End", is the historic core of England, the home of the Tower of London, and now it is a Gateway borough to the Olympics.
Colonised by the Arabs, Abandoned by the World
- Inter Press Service
TIZI OUZOU, Aug 07 (IPS) - Untamed stone villages line up over imposing green valleys. In winter they are white with snow. The luckiest have a view to the deep blue sea. "It’s gorgeous, isn’t it," says Amzi from his yellow cab. "Nobody would say we’re living in an open-air prison."
Mexicans Migrate – Body and Soul
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 06 (IPS) - Sergio Guerrero immigrated to the United States without documents in 2006 and returned to Mexico in 2010, converted to another religious faith. “I was Catholic, and there I met a lot of evangelicals, so I was reborn in Christ,” the 31-year-old father of three told IPS.
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