News headlines for “Immigration”, page 282
LABOUR-MALAYSIA: Hit Foreign Workers First Govt Tells Employers
- Inter Press Service
An official guideline for employers to retrench their foreign workers ahead of local employees has alarmed civil society society groups who fear that indebted migrant workers could be sent home with inadequate compensation.
FILM-US: Latino Fest in the Fray of Pop Culture's Lucha Libre
- Inter Press Service
The San Diego Latino Film Festival is perhaps the biggest little film festival most people outside of Southern California have never heard of.
RIGHTS-BURMA: Junta Lets UN Continue Helping Muslim Rohingyas
- Inter Press Service
For now, the United Nations’ refugee agency has been given breathing room to operate in a western corner of military-ruled Burma, where humanitarian programmes offer some comfort to the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
- Inter Press Service
Carole is an 18-year-old student of African descent at a high school in central Paris. She is currently studying for the baccalauréat, an exam at the end of secondary school. When she graduates, she would like to leave France as soon as possible, preferably for the United States.
RIGHTS-US: Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
- Inter Press Service
Clinical staff at U.S. immigration detention centres systematically abuse detainees in their charge, according to two reports by Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigration Advocacy Centre (FIAC) that describe the medical care system in these facilities as 'dangerously inadequate'.
ECONOMY-ASIA: Gains in Poverty Eradication Melt Away
- Inter Press Service
Rosevic Colli’s ambition is to run her own Internet café in her hometown of Davao, southern Philippines. 'I don’t want to work for anyone, I want to be my own boss,' she says.
HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Solace in Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
On a rainy Saturday evening, beneath the leaking tin roof of an empty carport in a working class section of Santo Domingo, a group of Haitian immigrants met to form a neighbours' association.
U.S.: Obama Administration Insists It's Neutral in Salvador Poll
- Inter Press Service
In the face of threats by Republican lawmakers here that a victory by the leftist FMLN party in Sunday's presidential elections could harm relations with the United States, the State Department is insisting that Washington is prepared to work with any government that reflects the will of the Salvadoran people.
AUSTRALIA: African Resources Behind Growing Links
- Inter Press Service
With hundreds of Australian mining companies now involved in the extraction of natural resources in Africa, the Rudd government is also aiming to play a bigger role in the continent’s affairs.
EL SALVADOR: ‘Many Swapped Farming for (Shrinking) Remittances’
- Inter Press Service
The global economic crisis has begun to be felt in this Salvadoran town on the Pacific coast, where remittances sent home by family members working in the United States have begun to shrink.
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