Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 224
RFK Award Spotlights Struggle for Farmworkers’ Rights
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 10 (IPS) - New York State legislators up in Albany are likely to be seeing a lot of Librada Paz in the near future.
Sri Lanka Emerges as Launchpad for Human Smuggling
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 06 (IPS) - If you hold a Pakistani or Afghan passport, be prepared for an unusually lengthy immigration process on entering neighbouring Sri Lanka. Immigration authorities in the island tell IPS they have set up special procedures to check passengers from these two countries.
Canada Severely Curtails Refugee Health Care
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Jul 03 (IPS) - As major cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) came into effect across Canada last week, medical professionals say both refugees and the Canadian healthcare system as a whole will pay a heavy price.
Going Dutch Means Staying Stuck
- Inter Press Service
UTRECHT, The Netherlands, Jul 03 (IPS) - Growing numbers of asylum seekers are being denied refugee status by the Dutch authorities, but cannot go back to their own country either. Forced removals are doing little to better the situation.
Treatment of Gays No Better in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
When Junior Mayema boarded a plane to South Africa from his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, he cried tears of joy because he was finally heading to a country where he could live openly as a gay man.
Ethnic Cleansing of Muslim Minority in Myanmar?
- Inter Press Service
Reports of sectarian violence in western Myanmar have exposed the plight of 800,000 Muslim Rohingya, a persecuted minority that a regional human rights body described in 2006 as facing a 'slow-burning genocide.'
Asylum Seekers Protest in Silence
- Inter Press Service
Terrible images are filtering in from the German Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, where one woman and six men have sewn their mouths shut, threading fishing wire through their lips to symbolise a point of no return in their hunger strike.
Pakistanis Blame CIA for Fresh Polio Cases
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan’s efforts to contain polio in areas bordering Afghanistan may have received a setback following the conviction of a doctor who allegedly ran a fake vaccine programme to locate Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Israel Opens Doors to Push South Sudanese Out
- Inter Press Service
Moses Gadia speaks quietly, a detailed and colourful map of South Sudan on the wall next to him. In the courtyard outside, a group of six men, all South Sudanese refugees, chat in the shade of plastic tarps.
At Home, Israelis Attack Africans
- Inter Press Service
It’s Saturday night in south Tel Aviv. Amine Zegata, a 36-year-old refugee from Eritrea is reopening the small bar he owns in the HaTikva neighbourhood. The pub was closed after Jewish Israelis smashed his windows and the bottles within during the race riots two weeks back. But Zegata has been assaulted twice since then. Violence against African refugees is continuing.
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