News headlines for “Immigration”, page 237
Q&A: Water Will Be Lifeblood of Smart Urban Expansion
- Inter Press Service
The world's water map is being significantly redrawn due primarily to the mass migration of people into urban centres, threatening one of life's vital resources.
Q&A: Climate-Driven Migrants Raise Thorny Legal Issues
- Inter Press Service
As the effects of accelerating climate change ripple outward, pushing millions from their land and homes, experts warn that international human rights and refugee law needs to catch up to the reality on the ground if migrants are to be given adequate protection and support.
JAPAN: Divorced Men Lose Children Along With Visas
- Inter Press Service
Shahdul Huq, a Bangladeshi national living in Japan for more than 20 years, last saw his daughter almost three years ago when he lost his ‘spouse visa’ following divorce from his Japanese wife.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Last Straw' Pushes Millions from Their Homes
- Inter Press Service
With political will to dramatically cut the world's greenhouse gas emissions failing to materialise, a multi-pronged approach is needed to protect the millions of people who are being displaced as a result of environmental factors driven largely by climate change, experts say.
NEPAL: Peace Fails to Stop Female Workers’ Exodus
- Inter Press Service
Six years ago Shantimaya Dong Tamang went to Kuwait to work as an illegal domestic worker, falling for brokers’ tales of how she could earn good money and stand on her own feet.
Between Libya and the Deep Sea
- Inter Press Service
NATO’s five-month bombing campaign in Libya, run under the guise of protecting civilians, is also killing victims fleeing the conflict, directly and indirectly.
CUBA: Castro Says Migration Policy to Be Eased
- Inter Press Service
Cuban President Raúl Castro’s announcement of coming changes to migration policy appears to be the result of repeated demands by the population for freedom to travel, a right ensnared for decades in the Cuba-United States conflict.
MEXICO: Families of Missing Migrants Converge on Capital
- Inter Press Service
After journeying 1,500 km from Honduras, 56-year-old Maura Sánchez reached the central Zócalo square in the Mexican capital Monday, to demand respect and justice for undocumented migrants in this country.
MEXICO: The Long March to Justice for Migrants
- Inter Press Service
For the second time in a little over a month, Wilfredo, a 26-year-old Salvadoran construction worker, is trying to make it into the United States without papers to join his sister in Arlington, Texas.
CENTRAL AMERICA-MEXICO: Following the Trail of Missing Migrants
- Inter Press Service
'We were in prison for three days in Mexico,' Amarilis Rodríguez from Guatemala says between sobs. 'When we crossed the border at Piedras Negras, in Tamaulipas, into the United States, we were chased by the 'migra' (border patrol agents). They caught me, but my brother escaped and I haven't heard from him since.'
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