News headlines for “Immigration”, page 238
Displaced Ivorians 'Too Afraid to Return'
- Inter Press Service
More than half a million people remain displaced by Ivory Coast's post-election conflict and many are too afraid to return home for fear of ethnic reprisals, Amnesty International says in a report.
Wealthy Pakistanis Leaving Taliban Areas
- Inter Press Service
Wealthy Pakistanis from the country’s northwestern region are leaving their hometowns permanently to settle in safer areas far from the war zone. Doctors and other professionals are joining the exodus.
TUNISIA: Migrants Flee to New Traps
- Inter Press Service
As African Union and NATO leaders push for a political solution to the Libyan crisis, many of the thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Libyan- Tunisian border say their plight continues to fall on deaf ears.
Obama's Immigration Promises at Odds with Record
- Inter Press Service
'Our American family will only be as strong as our Latino community,' U.S. President Barack Obama said in his address at the National Council of La Raza's annual conference in Washington on Monday.
In Sri Lanka Democracy Rides on Wheels
- Inter Press Service
If voters in this remote village, deep inside Sri Lanka’s former war zone, turned out in strength for the historical Jul. 23 local body elections, it had to do with the availability of buses to ferry them to the nearest polling station 20 km away.
War Makes for Strange Bedfellows
- Inter Press Service
A soldier and an Islamist - both fleeing the crackdown on Syrian pro-democracy protesters and seeking refuge in neighbouring Lebanon - have discovered that they share similar views on the ongoing uprising.
MEXICO: Central American Migrants Preyed on by Organised Crime, Police
- Inter Press Service
Miguel, a 32-year-old Nicaraguan, and his wife have spent several days at a shelter for migrants in the southwest Mexican state of Oaxaca, where they fled after being robbed, extorted and threatened by corrupt municipal police and youth gang members.
‘Forgotten Australians’ Demand More Than Apologies
- Inter Press Service
Laurie Humphreys was on the first ship after World War II that brought 150 British boys and girls, aged five to 14 years, to Australia in 1947. At 13, he was promised oranges and sunshine and an adventurous holiday, but reality was different.
Somalia to Dadaab: The journey from hell
- Inter Press Service
The lorry sways slowly from side to side along a dirt track as it ambles towards its place of rest. The red straw bags, clothes and empty yellow water bottles tied to the rear end of the open cargo hold tower above the pensive faces peering over colourfully painted steel panels.
U.S.: In Shifting Political Landscape, Gay Couple Granted Two More Years
- Inter Press Service
A California immigration judge has allowed Alex Benshimol, a Venezuelan citizen, and his U.S.-born husband Doug Gentry to remain together in the United States for at least two more years, in another victory for same-sex bi-national couples.
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