News headlines for “Immigration”, page 277
POPULATION: The Worst Places to Be a Refugee
- Inter Press Service
Gaza, South Africa and Thailand are among the world's worst places to be a refugee, according to the latest annual World Refugee Survey released here Wednesday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI).
MIGRATION: Pakistan Refugee Crisis Worst in a Decade, U.N. Says
- Inter Press Service
Forty-two million people were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide in 2008, said a new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released Tuesday.
LABOUR: ILO Urges Action on Financial Speculation
- Inter Press Service
World leaders, employers and trade unionists, meeting here at a crisis summit on employment, welcomed a new ‘Global Jobs Pact’, but warned that any delay in its implementation would worsen the problems created by financial speculation.
U.S.: Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
- Inter Press Service
Up the Pacific Coast from California to Washington, through the heartland in Texas and Illinois, and over to the Atlantic Seaboard in New Jersey and New York, local trade unions and mainly immigrant workers centres are experimenting with new modes of cooperation.
Q&A: 'Helping the Most Vulnerable Benefits All Workers'
- Inter Press Service
After decades at sea, organised labour has limped into port. Last fall, they helped to elect a sympathetic U.S. president and Congress. Now trade unions are gearing up to push for a major overhaul of labour law. They are also welding an alliance with immigrant and human rights groups to win comprehensive immigration reform.
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Focus on Housing the Urban Poor
- Inter Press Service
Millions of people move to Africa’s cities every year, swelling the numbers of urban poor. 'We cannot chase people away from slums,' says Kelvin Mmangisa, chief executive of the Lilongwe City Assembly. 'But we can improve the conditions there to make their lives better.'
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Trafficking Victims’ Ordeal Never Ends
- Inter Press Service
A mixture of rage, impotence and terror is evident behind the sadness in María’s* eyes. It’s been five months since she escaped from her captors in the United States, where she was taken under a false job contract, and she still can’t shake off her fear.
LABOUR-US: Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
For Pablo Alvarado, the genesis occurred back in 1999 when janitors in Los Angeles were on strike. Some of the cleaning companies came to the corners and workers' centres where day labourers gathered and tried to hire workers to cross the janitors' picket lines, he recounted to IPS.
PAKISTAN: IDPs from NWFP Revive ‘Outsider’ Fears in Karachi
- Inter Press Service
'Isn’t this our country? Are we not Pakistanis? When people from Karachi came to Swat as tourists we welcomed them with open arms,' fumes Mirza Khan, 39.
MIGRATION-US: Grassroots Labourers Plough Common Ground
- Inter Press Service
The hiring hall for Hod Carriers and General Labourers Local 242 is in the basement of the Seattle Labour Temple, a two-story tan-brick building of early-20th century vintage. You walk down a flight of well-worn red-tile stairs and through the double doors.
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