News headlines for “Immigration”, page 272
SRI LANKA: Women Want Better Pay, Out of Free Trade Zones
- Inter Press Service
The room is dingy and cramped. The walls are unplastered and its rough cement edges can scrape the skin easily. Furniture is strewn all over the place, plastic chairs stacked one on top of the other, boxes on top of them, handbags hanging from the wall and clothes on a rack. A small kerosene cooker is kept on the side of the room while a bicycle is parked next to the only bed in the 10-by-10-feet room.
MIGRATION-ITALY: A Helping Hand in a Hostile Land
- Inter Press Service
Italy is in many ways a country of contradictions, known for its beautiful beaches and vulnerable coasts, its staunch Catholicism and growing intolerance towards immigrants.
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Slow Progress Against Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
Despite progress in bringing Mexican law into compliance with the international treaty against human trafficking, little has been achieved so far in this country in terms of prosecutions and convictions of traffickers, protection of victims and prevention of this increasingly widespread crime, says a new report released in the Mexican capital Thursday.
Q&A: A Second Chance — As Advocate for Women Migrants in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
In her 48 years, Natividad Obeso has already lived several different lives. There was the time when she lived in her native Peru as a successful businesswoman and mother of four. Then there was the time when she spent her days wandering the streets of the Argentine capital, penniless and alone, a fugitive of political persecution that she never understood.
RIGHTS-US: ACLU Sues Controversial Sheriff
- Inter Press Service
The man who boasts he is 'America's Toughest Sheriff' - and who is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for civil rights violations - this week added another lawsuit to thousands already pending against him.
MIGRATION-PORTUGAL: Pitfalls in the Path to Paradise
- Inter Press Service
Some 200 million people, three percent of the world's population, have left their country of origin to pursue happiness elsewhere, according to the International Organisation for Migration. But their dreams are often shattered by human trafficking rings and unscrupulous employers.
BOOKS-US: The (Not So) Invisible Ones
- Inter Press Service
People try to illegally enter foreign countries for many different reasons, and in many different ways. But they all have something in common - they are largely 'invisible' to authorities and the media.
MIGRATION-US: More Deaths in Detention
- Inter Press Service
In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities.
BRAZIL: Italian Immigrants Helped Forge Local Identity in the South
- Inter Press Service
In 1875 a handful of families from the Veneto region of northern Italy, fleeing hardship and hunger, took ship for the Empire of Brazil. Disembarking in Porto Alegre in the southeast, they hacked their way for over 100 kilometres through densely wooded country into the Serra Gaúcha hills, up to 800 metres above sea level.
RIGHTS-SPAIN: Conditions Getting Tougher for Immigrants
- Inter Press Service
Immigrants in Spain are getting a raw deal from state institutions and at the same time from small and medium business owners, who not only take unfair advantage of them, but sometimes also physically ill-treat them.
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