News headlines for “Immigration”, page 264
HAITI: Tensions Put on Hold as Dominican Republic Reaches Out
- Inter Press Service
Despite a history of often tense relations, the first nation to render assistance to Haiti after last month's devastating earthquake was its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic.
GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
- Inter Press Service
The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
- Inter Press Service
If medals are being given out for backbreaking labour on miserable wages and impossible working conditions, thousands of migrant workers, slaving to complete stadia and other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, will be the champions.
MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
- Inter Press Service
Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
RIGHTS: This Time Around, Thailand Targets Karen Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Thailand’s attempt to repatriate over 3,000 ethnic Karens who fled the conflict in military-ruled Burma last year has triggered strong local and international objections, including from 27 members of the United States Congress.
U.S.: Immigration Enforcement Prone to Abuses
- Inter Press Service
A little-known programme run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning 'as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened' detention and deportation system of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
JORDAN: Palestinians Unfairly Stripped of Citizenship - Report
- Inter Press Service
The Jordanian government should halt the arbitrary revocation of nationality from its citizens of Palestinian origin, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Monday.
MIGRATION: Fortress Europe Starts With Greece
- Inter Press Service
When Michalis Chrisohoidis, Greek minister of citizens' announed that FRONTEX, the European Agency for Border Control and Protection, would double its representation in this country in spring, it was clear that Greece is being charged with special responsibilities to apprehend and repatriate illegal migrants into Europe.
FRANCE: Burqa Ban Keeps Immigration Issue Alive
- Inter Press Service
With the French regional elections coming up in March and a debate on national identity raging, the burqa polemic is keeping the immigration and 'values' issue alive here.
LABOUR: Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights Next on ILO’s Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Po Po has been enduring long hours of hard work, poor pay and abuse within the confines of her employer’s home for the past seven years. Poverty forced her to leave her family in eastern Burma and abandon a university education to work as a domestic helper in Thailand.
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