Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 226
Protection for Salvadoran Migrants En Route to U.S.
- Inter Press Service
A law to protect Salvadoran migrants, who are frequently victims of attacks and abuses on their way to the United States, is nearing entry into force after having been approved over a year ago. All that remains is for a body made up of civil society organisations to be created to implement it.
Manila and Moscow Inch Closer to Labour Agreement
- Inter Press Service
As the number of migrant Filipino workers in Russia inches closer to 5000, Moscow and Manila are busy negotiating a bilateral labour agreement that could allow thousands more overseas workers into various sectors of the Russian economy.
Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
- Inter Press Service
As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant 'Libya free, Chadians out', before they kneel down for evening prayers.
U.S.: Ethnic Minority Youth Lead New Wave of Student Activism
- Inter Press Service
In December 1985, The New York Times reported on what was believed to be the first anti-apartheid conference of U.S. high schools discussing divestment from corporations operating in South Africa.
U.S. Should Double Aid to Curb Violence in Central America: Report
- Inter Press Service
The United States should double aid to Central America and focus it more on programmes designed to strengthen the region's criminal justice institutions to help curb the skyrocketing violence in the region, according to a new report published by an influential foreign policy group.
Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
- Inter Press Service
Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India when she was just 16 years old in 1990.
France Caught Between Right and Left
- Inter Press Service
French workers turned out in droves on May 1, International Workers’ Day, to back their political candidates ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections next Sunday. But France’s 'working class' has largely turned to the Far Right, after a long tradition of voting Left.
Mali - Barely Surviving As One Country Let Alone Two
- Inter Press Service
It was the middle of the day when Tabisou, 72, suddenly saw people from her town of Amderamboukane in Mali fleeing for their lives. Her family had no time to pack their things; the fighting had already begun.
European Refugees Meet Austerity-Era Hostility
- Inter Press Service
As the economic slump drags on in Europe, refugees and immigrants are keeping a wary eye on state budgets, as governments in the throes of austerity slash the social protections and public services that minorities rely on.
Taking Refuge in Hell Camp
- Inter Press Service
'We have been spending sleepless nights without electricity and clean water. This place is not worth living in but we have no option and will remain here as long as the military operation continues in our area,' said Gul Rahim, a former resident of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, currently languishing in the Jallozai refugee camp in the Nowshera district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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