News headlines for “Immigration”, page 233
TAJIKISTAN: Dushanbe's Plane Caper Not Flying with the Kremlin
- Inter Press Service
Memo to leaders of Central Asian nations that lack abundant energy resources: messing with Moscow usually backfires.
SRI LANKA: Alive or Beheaded this Maid is a Heroine
- Inter Press Service
Will Rizana Fathima Nafeek return to this poverty-ridden coastal village in Sri Lanka alive and in one piece? Or will the beheading sentence passed on her by a Saudi Arabian court in 2007 be finally carried out?
U.S.: Helping Immigrants Fight Wage Theft
- Inter Press Service
For many immigrants living in the U.S., a good job can be hard to come by. For those who do find employment - generally in low-paying jobs — every paycheck counts. Which is why, when a paycheck is smaller than it should be — or when it doesn't show up at all — everything comes to a halt.
MEXICO: DNA Databank to Identify Missing Migrants
- Inter Press Service
DNA analysis, ethical tribunals and diplomatic pressure are the new instruments that migrants' organisations are wielding to combat the abuses suffered by undocumented migrants in Mexico and the United States.
US: Latinos Call for Immigration Reform, Not Record Deportations
- Inter Press Service
In his campaign, President Barack Obama promised to make comprehensive immigration reform a top priority — a pledge mainly directed at Latino voters.
U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
While the Occupy movements sweeping the U.S. have become almost synonymous with democracy, consensus-based processes, human microphones and other symbols of unity, many populations in the country have felt isolated by the language and tactics of the movement.
THAILAND: Bangkok Braces for Month of Floods
- Inter Press Service
As the Thai Airways flight descends into Suvarnabhumi International Airport, passengers pull out cameras to snap pictures of flood waters rising inexorably and predicted to inundate the capital city by the end of the week.
Citizens of Nowhere
- Inter Press Service
When Mona Kareem, a member of the Bidoun population of Kuwait, was 11 years old, a neighbour Kuwaiti woman asked her where she was from. When Kareem answered, 'I am Bidoun,' the woman laughed at her. 'There is no country called Bidoun. There is no Bidoun.'
SPAIN: Detained Immigrants 'Are Treated Like Criminals'
- Inter Press Service
'It was very tough, like being in prison,' says 29-year-old Algerian immigrant Sid Hamed Bouziane, in slow Spanish, about his 28-day stay at the Immigrant Detention Centre, or CIE, in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
Cape Verde Recognised for Political, Economic Leadership
- Inter Press Service
When the former president of Cape Verde, Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires, was recently awarded the five-million-dollar African Leadership prize, the ex-Portuguese colony that he headed for nearly 10 years was singled out as one of the key African success stories for 'good governance', including multi-party democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights.
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