News headlines for “Immigration”, page 228
HIV Compounds Poverty in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
Life, already hard in Nepal’s remote western region, is getting worse thanks to HIV infection brought back by men who go to neighbouring India for seasonal work.
Gunfire from Syria Hits Border Camp in Turkey
- Inter Press Service
Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border has hit a refugee camp inside Turkey, wounding at least three people.
Radioactive Mushrooms Cloud Compensation Plans
- Inter Press Service
The discovery of radioactive contamination in ‘shiitake’ mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 300 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has raised public clamour for compensation.
Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
- Inter Press Service
With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
TAJIKISTAN: Using Force to Maintain a Standing Army
- Inter Press Service
Hunger, unheated barracks, beatings and regular outbreaks of disease: it could be life in a penal colony. But in this case, it describes the existence of a fresh military conscript in Tajikistan.
Climate Change Threatens the Poor in Cities
- Inter Press Service
India, like other Asian countries, has focused its climate change adaptation strategies on rural and urban areas while neglecting the urban fringes, say experts.
Arab Spring Brings Some Sour Fruits
- Inter Press Service
Recent shifts in the Middle East and North Africa have presented several economic challenges such as high unemployment, an exodus of migrants from Libya and a reduction of tourism revenues. Given that economic discontent played a vital role in the Arab uprisings, economic growth has become vital to sustain the fruit of revolution.
Can’t Help Helping Refugees
- Inter Press Service
It’s 10 am on Saturday morning and a group of migrants is clustered round the entrance to the Migrant Clothes Association in the Calais city centre, eating breakfast provided by the association. Inside, the warehouse is stacked with blankets, tents, trainers and clothes. Some of these will be distributed later by the association’s workers.
Myanmar 'Reforms' Elude Kachin Refugees
- Inter Press Service
For thousands of ethnic Kachins who fled fighting between government troops and rebels and survived a bitter winter in the refugee camps that dot northern Myanmar (or Burma), another test of survival looms — gale force winds.
Calais Draws More Refugees, And Trouble
- Inter Press Service
It’s more than two years since French police demolished the migrant squatter camp in Calais known as the Jungle in September 2009. At the time the widely-publicised demolition was hailed by the French and British authorities as a major blow to the smugglers or passeurs who facilitated illegal immigration across the Channel.
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