Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 223
Pakistan Says Goodbye to Refugees Not Leaving
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Aug 03 (IPS) - Pakistan faces increased international pressure to extend the stay of Afghan refugees as it seeks to push them back to war-torn Afghanistan.
Q&A: "Israel's Heavy-Handed Abuse of Palestinian Children Is Unacceptable"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - After a fact-finding tour of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip - and following hearings in Amman and Cairo - a three-member United Nations committee has lambasted Israel for the harsh treatment of Palestinian children held in custody.
Pouring Edible Oil on Pakistan’s Troubled Areas
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) -
A makeshift girls' school in Bajaur. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSPESHAWAR, Jul 28 2012 (IPS) -Taking turns to lug a heavy can of edible oil, Mushtari and Sheema Gul, twin sisters aged nine, trip home happily from their school in Ghareebabad village in Pakistan’s troubled Bajaur Agency.
Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Their Fate
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 (IPS) - Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict.
New Satellite Evidence Suggests Sudanese Atrocities
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - An NGO here unveiled new satellite evidence on Friday that would seem to suggest the torching of a village in southern Sudan by state soldiers.
A Grim Search for the Missing
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 17 (IPS) - A bloody civil war was reaching its climax but this Tamil family, who had already experienced the conflict intimately, had one last decision to make that would prove to be the hardest one of all.
Canada Targets Traffickers, With a Close Eye on Sex Work
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Jul 16 (IPS) - The arrests last week of the three remaining perpetrators of the alleged Opapa human trafficking ring, which forced 19 people recruited from Hungary to endure long work days, poor living conditions and no pay in the Canadian construction industry, has cast a light on Ottawa’s new measures to combat the crime.
Voting for Peace in the Distant Desert
- Inter Press Service
SABHA, Libya, Jul 12 (IPS) - On election day long lines of people from Sabha’s impoverished community of Tayuri waited to vote under the harsh Saharan sun. Four hundred miles from the Mediterranean coast, Sabha is tucked into the volatile southwest bordering Algeria, Niger and Chad.
U.S. Commits 10 Million for Mali Refugees as Intervention Talk Builds
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - President Barack Obama on Thursday authorised the release of 10 million dollars in emergency funding to help with the refugee crisis stemming from continued violence in northern Mali, in response to warnings that international aid efforts were in danger of drying up in coming months.
Iowa Firm Accused of Displacing Tanzanians for Profit
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 11 (IPS) - A major U.S. energy company, AgriSol Energy, is accused of engaging in land grabs in Tanzania that would displace more than 160,000 Burundian refugees who have lived there for decades, according to a report by the Oakland Institute, an organisation focused on environmental issues.
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