News headlines for “Immigration”, page 268
EDUCATION-US: Social Justice Schools Shape New Wave of Activists
- Inter Press Service
While most U.S. public schools are responding to new high-stakes testing requirements by teaching more math and English to the neglect of social studies and civics, a very small minority of schools are pushing forward a different agenda.
LEBANON: Refugees Remain Sceptical of Nahr al-Bared Reconstruction
- Inter Press Service
More than two years after their refugee camp was destroyed in a war between the Lebanese army and the Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam, Nahr al-Bared refugees Wednesday witnessed the start of the camp’s reconstruction. Their relief is mixed with scepticism, however.
RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'
- Inter Press Service
'We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator.'
LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
- Inter Press Service
October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.
MIDEAST: Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
SWEDEN: 'Freemovers' Get Trapped
- Inter Press Service
After a spell of sleeping rough at the railway station, Farid has a roof over his head, by way of a small room he shares with five other students.
MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
- Inter Press Service
Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.
MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children
- Inter Press Service
'Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat.'
RIGHTS-US: NGOs Praise End to HIV Travel Ban
- Inter Press Service
Global health and U.S. AIDS activists are hailing President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that the government will end a 22-year-old ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive visitors.
U.S.: Arizona Renews Push to Criminalise Immigrants
- Inter Press Service
Arizona could become the first state in the U.S. to criminalise the very presence of undocumented immigrants.
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