News headlines for “Immigration”, page 276
CARIBBEAN: Deportation Row Takes Centre-Stage at Caricom
- Inter Press Service
Caribbean leaders are due to meet for a full working week starting Thursday to discuss issues ranging from climate change to the global economic crisis.
U.S.: Anti-Regime Exiles Galvanised by Iran Unrest
- Inter Press Service
While mass demonstrations in Iran are dwindling with large gatherings and the opposition appearing largely paralysed by the authorities’ crackdown the crisis there is causing a return to prominence for groups of Iranians living in the West: the exiles who have long advocated regime change in Iran, sometimes by armed means.
PAKISTAN: U.S. Urged to Boost Emergency Aid to Displaced
- Inter Press Service
Newly released research from experts and refugee advocates paints a clearer and perhaps surprising picture of the plight of Pakistan’s rapidly growing population of internally displaced persons (IDPs).
MALAYSIA: Blacklisted For Not Enforcing Trafficking Laws
- Inter Press Service
After years of lobbying by rights activists and the international community, Malaysia passed an effective and comprehensive law in 2007 against human trafficking with provisions for protection, shelter and return of trafficked person to their home countries.
MOROCCO: African Refugees Targeted
- Inter Press Service
More than 300 African refugees are gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), asking to be moved to another country because their rights are not respected in Morocco. Several refugees say they have been beaten up by Moroccan UN personnel.
GREECE: New Laws Being Rushed in Against Migrants
- Inter Press Service
Following a big defeat in the European parliament elections, the right-wing New Democracy (ND) government is cracking down on irregular migration to counter the far right.
Q&A: 'Migrant Workers Bring Vibrancy to the Labour Movement'
- Inter Press Service
Day labourers looking for casual work are familiar fixtures on corners outside home improvement and garden stores across the United States. Less visible are the workers centres that have grown up in many locales to serve and organise these mainly immigrant and undocumented workers.
US-MEXICO: Humanitarian Aid Criminalised at the Border
- Inter Press Service
Humanitarian aid groups trying to avert migrant deaths on the U.S- Mexico border are facing increased roadblocks in their mission. The hazards are not connected to a spike in drug cartels’ violence, but rather restrictions from the federal government.
Q&A: 'The Cake is Not Enough'
- Inter Press Service
Gerald Mooi owns a business renting out pool tables to functions across the city of Cape Town area.
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: Xenophobia Still Smouldering
- Inter Press Service
'My worry is that my children are going to be slaves because they won't have anything. These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car. Where do these foreign people get this money?'
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