News headlines for “Immigration”, page 235
GREECE: Lost Generation Begins to Leave
- Inter Press Service
Every working day a long queue of people forms outside the State Translation Service in Thission in downtown Athens from early in the morning. Most are youngsters processing documents they need to leave Greece for study or work. Many move on to queue later outside embassies for visas.
Caribbean Joins with EU, ACP to Better Manage Migration
- Inter Press Service
With the exception of those pictures of Haitians in overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels trying to reach places like The Bahamas and the United States, the image of the Caribbean is usually not one that portrays people from poor developing countries desperately trying to scratch out a living among the scattered islands.
CANADA: Migrant Rights Tested by Most-Wanted List
- Inter Press Service
Ottawa's clampdown on some of the country's worst criminal offenders by creating a public most-wanted list netted its most recent arrest only days ago, but the system has triggered a debate over the publishing of fugitives' names and the ethics and feasibility of changing Canadian immigration policy.
Despite Western Boycott, Racism Meet Gets Overwhelming Support
- Inter Press Service
A 'boycott' by more than a dozen Western nations, including the United States, Germany, Canada and Israel, failed to derail a high-level meeting on racism and xenophobia hosted by the 193-member General Assembly.
PAKISTAN: Flood Relief by Caste, Creed
- Inter Press Service
With just the clothes on their backs, Moora Sanafdhano, 68, and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari, saving themselves in the nick of time.
MEXICO: Peace Caravan Tells Migrants 'You Are Not Alone'
- Inter Press Service
Lucía and her family left their village in Guatemala village at 8:00 am to join the Peace Caravan, but they had to wait for six hours at the Rodolfo Robles bridge between Ciudad Tecún Umán, in Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
NEPAL: No Brakes on Sex Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
While a Nepalese campaign to stop human trafficking gains recognition by the White House and Hollywood, Nepal continues to be a prime source for sex trafficking, thanks to unsettled conditions created by a protracted political crisis.
Europe Confronts Its Borders
- Inter Press Service
The influx of Tunisian migrants into Europe following the country’s ‘Jasmine Revolt’ has sparked a debate over the application of the passport-free Schengen Agreement.
BRAZIL: African Refugees in the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
Wilson Nicolas, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was the first African refugee to find his way to Brazil's Amazon jungle region, and seems to have started a trend.
MEXICO: Climate Change Drives Migration
- Inter Press Service
'We planted our seeds, but the earth is no longer productive. We've had too much rain, even more than last year, and the harvest was ruined,' says Ermelinda Santiago of the Me'phaa indigenous people, who like everyone else in the village of Francisco I. Madero has been affected by the impact of extreme weather on agriculture in southern Mexico.
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