News headlines for “Immigration”, page 281
GREECE: For Refugees, Could Afghanistan be Worse
- Inter Press Service
For more than a decade migrants and refugees have been landing up at a slum in Patras town in the hope of catching a boat to Italy.
FRANCE: Film on Migrants Sparks Legal Debate
- Inter Press Service
A new film on undocumented migrants has sparked heated discussion among the public and lawmakers here.
POLITICS-SOMALIA: Refugees Suffering in Kenyan Camps
- Inter Press Service
In early March, Amina Ayanna Yusuf strapped her two-year-old son to her back and set off for the Kenyan border with her small savings.
HEALTH-LESOTHO: Migration Calls for Cross-Border Health Policies
- Inter Press Service
The mountain kingdom of Lesotho faces a number of unique hurdles with regard to HIV and AIDS. The country is landlocked within South Africa, the epicentre of the pandemic, and because of limited job opportunities and high unemployment rates within Lesotho, many of its citizens work as migrant labourers in neighbouring South Africa.
AUSTRALIA: 'Chinese Asylum Seekers' Rights Were Violated'
- Inter Press Service
A yet-to-be released report by Australia’s human rights watchdog into the 2005 treatment of a group of Chinese asylum seekers held at the immigration detention here has concluded that serious breaches of civil and political rights were made by the immigration department.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/US-MEXICO: Clinton Visit Has Aura of Drug Intervention
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration announced this week that it will augment already massive foreign aid to its southern neighbour in a bid to help Mexico fight cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S., as well as sending a series of high-level U.S. officials to Mexico to consult with their counterparts.
MIGRATION-US: Strained Detention System a Virtual Black Hole
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. government has failed to uphold international human rights standards in its detention of immigrants and asylum seekers, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) said in a report released Wednesday.
US-MEXICO: Clinton Visit Has Aura of Drug Intervention
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration announced this week that it will boost already massive foreign aid to its southern neighbour in a bid to help Mexico fight cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S., as well as sending a series of high-level U.S. officials to Mexico to consult with their counterparts.
POLITICS-US: Censorship Seen in Exclusion of Foreign Scholars
- Inter Press Service
A leading legal rights group charged Tuesday that the Barack Obama Justice Department is using immigration law to censor debate by selectively barring U.S. entry to foreign scholars.
ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Conditions Worsen For Women Workers
- Inter Press Service
Ramani, 26, sits inside her small, dimly-lit boarding house room, cutting vegetables, in this industrial town outside Colombo. She plans to return to her rural village in May to get married.
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