News headlines for “Immigration”, page 283
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.
U.S.: Muslim Women Try to Shatter the 'Glass Minaret'
- Inter Press Service
It's Ramadan, and Sara Elghobashy and a group of her women friends, having broken their fast, are looking for a mosque where they can hear the recitation of Koran.
POLITICS: Pundits Hope for Renaissance in U.S.-Latam Ties
- Inter Press Service
While U.S. relations with Latin America hover near their lowest point since the end of the Cold War, the election of President Barack Obama 'has opened the way for a new U.S. approach' to the region, according to the latest report released here Tuesday by the Inter-American Dialogue (IAD), a Washington-based hemispheric think tank.
LABOUR-THAILAND: Meltdown Leaves Women in Dire Straits
- Inter Press Service
'Please help me find a way to have some money for milk,' pleaded Benjawan Marongthong, mother of two young boys and former worker in a garments factory.
Q&A: 'Women Leaders Have to Be Tougher and Stronger Than Men'
- Inter Press Service
Ruby Dhalla, a Liberal member of Canada's Parliament, is also a community activist, doctor, and one of the leading progressive voices in North American politics today.
LABOUR-PHILIPPINES: Meltdown - Women Most Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
Shaynar Bacon was working as a cashier in a shopping mall in Mindanao, southern Philippines, when she learned that an electronics manufacturing firm in Taiwan was looking for workers.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: 'Bali Process' May Address Rohingya Crisis
- Inter Press Service
South-east Asian governments are examining the possibility of using a seven-year-old regional mechanism, known as the ‘’Bali Process,’’ to find an answer to minority Muslim Rohingyas fleeing ethnic cleansing in military-ruled Burma.
MIGRATION-MEXICO: Where Is My Son?
- Inter Press Service
Ana Celaya from El Salvador has been desperately searching for her son Rafael since he went missing in Mexico in May 2002, as he was trying to make it to the United States.
RIGHTS-BURMA: Rohingya Issue Figures in Regional Summit
- Inter Press Service
Burma’s military regime has set a tough challenge for regional leaders to grapple with when they gather for a summit over the weekend in this resort town south of Bangkok.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: New Drive Against Racism
- Inter Press Service
With new figures showing that 44 percent of Australians were either born overseas or have at least one parent who was, community organisations have welcomed a stepped-up government programme to tackle racial, cultural and religious intolerance.
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