IPS - News on Migration
Human migration is a matter of global concern. Flows of migrants and refugees influence and change the social, economic and political dynamics of their destinations -- and the places they have left behind. IPS covers crucial issues such as migrant and refugee rights, irregular or undocumented migration, human trafficking, remittances, displaced persons and forced labour. And the positive: in many cases migration creates a new dialogue among civilisations. Migrants themselves become the building blocks of bridges connecting different cultures.
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TRINIDAD: Where Are the Missing People?
PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 6 (IPS) - When 15-year-old Devika Lalman left her home a few
days before Christmas to buy school supplies for the new academic
term, her parents had taken all the necessary precautions to
ensure her safety.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
GREECE: Ask for Rights, Get Acid in the Face
ATHENS, Jan 5 (IPS) - Around midnight Dec. 22, Decheva Elena Kuneva, a
Bulgarian living in Greece since 2001, finished her shift and
made her way home. For four years she had worked as a cleaner in
the city railways, as employee of a company contracted by the
public enterprise.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
LABOUR-SRI LANKA: Gloomy Prospects in 2009
COLOMBO, Jan 2 (IPS) - If the global financial crisis slams the brakes on
worker remittances from the Middle East, Sri Lanka’s top foreign
exchange earner, it could severely exacerbate this country’s
economic woes, analysts say.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: 'Prison-like' Immigration Facility Open
MELBOURNE, Dec 31 (IPS) - Refugee rights organisations have criticised the
Rudd government’s decision to hold suspected asylum seekers in a
controversial detention centre on an isolated Australian island
in the Indian Ocean.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
LABOUR-PHILIPPINES: Bleak New Year For Migrant Workers
MANILA, Dec 29 (IPS) - Diovie Arcilla is happy to be home for Christmas.
This Singapore-based computer programmer values being with her
family and friends in the holiday season. But news that some of
her colleagues have been retrenched is making Arcilla anxious.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
LABOUR-US: Demand Dries Up For On-Demand Workers
SEATTLE, Washington, Dec 23 (IPS) - Outside a Home Depot store, it's a typical
December morning in Seattle: cool and gray with a light sprinkle
falling. At 7:30, about 50 men wait at the entrances to the
parking lot. Most wear jackets, jeans and work shoes, and some
carry day packs with tools, water and lunch. They stand silently
with hands in pockets, alone or in knots of three or four,
baseball caps or sweatshirt hoods deployed against the chilly
mist.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
EUROPE: Swap Aid for Fewer Migrants, the French Way
BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (IPS) - Should the amount of aid that African countries
receive from Europe be linked to their efforts to prevent their
nationals moving to this continent?
Catégories: Humanitarian news
RIGHTS-SPAIN: Human Traffickers’ Assets to Be Seized
MADRID, Dec 12 (IPS) - The Spanish government announced a new plan Friday
to combat human trafficking, which includes a measure for the
immediate seizure of the assets of anyone convicted of
involvement in such activities, in particular, those who force
foreign women into prostitution.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
RIGHTS-NEPAL: 'Maoists Slow to Return Seized Property'
KATHMANDU, Dec 9 (IPS) - Tej Bahadur Roila, a member of the Nepal army, is
unable to return to his home in the Khotang district of Eastern
Nepal because his property, seized by Maoist rebels in the middle
of the decade-long civil war they waged against the monarchy, has
not been returned.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
EUROPE-RIGHTS: Starving Because They Cannot Settle
ATHENS, Dec 5 (IPS) - Fifteen migrants woke up Friday to the 25th day of
their hunger strike in Crete's second largest municipality
Hania. They all have been living and working in Hania for a long
time.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
MIGRATION: Caribbean Politics Grapples With Dual Citizenship
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec 3 (IPS) - When Jamaica's chief justice disqualified
Daryl Vaz from sitting in Parliament last April, it brought into
focus the complications surrounding dual citizenship, not only
here but throughout the entire English-speaking Caribbean.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
MALAYSIA: Rights Champion Seeks Political Career
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (IPS) - After winning a gruelling 13-year court battle to
avoid being jailed on charges of maliciously publishing false
news, Malaysia's best-known human rights champion seeks a
political career to continue defending migrant workers and other
vulnerable sections of society.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
ECONOMY-MALAYSIA: Job Losses Feared as Recession Bites
PENANG, Nov 26 (IPS) - The global economic slowdown is slowly creeping
onto Malaysian shores leaving many worried about the impact it
will have on workers.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
RIGHTS-US: Lawmakers Urged to Stem Wave of Hate Crimes
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - Leading civil rights groups Monday denounced the
rise in hate crimes taking place in the United States, especially
against Hispanics, and called for passage of the Local Law
Enforcement Hate Crime Prevention Act (LLEHCP) to ensure federal
jurisdiction when local officials fail to act.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
U.S.: Hemispheric Group Calls for Major Changes in Americas Policy
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - An elite inter-American commission sponsored by a
think tank that is considered close to likely key policy-makers
in the administration of President-elect Barack Obama is calling
for sharp break in U.S. policy toward Latin America, a
substantial opening toward Cuba, greater diplomatic engagement
with Venezuela, and a major reassessment of its war on drugs.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
U.S.-MEXICO: Fence to Carve Up Fragile Border Preserve
SAN DIEGO, California, Nov 19 (IPS) - Another chapter in U.S.-Mexico border relations is
about to close. In the waning days of the George W. Bush
administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is
completing construction of a 22-kilometre triple fence along the
San Diego-Tijuana border.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
GERMANY: Recreating the Experience of the Uprooted
BERLIN, Nov 18 (IPS) - The lighting is dim. The murmur of water can be
heard, the ship’s horn blows and the gangway unfolds. The long
journey of the German emigrant is about to begin.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
ENVIRONMENT-BURMA: Conflict Threatens Karen Biodiversity
BANGKOK, Nov 17 (IPS) - On top of 60 years of military occupation, the
Karen people of Burma are now facing severe impairment of their
environmental and cultural foundations, say activists.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
MIGRATION-PORTUGAL: The Promised South
LISBON, Nov 15 (IPS) - The south-central region of Alentejo, one of
Portugal’s most impoverished areas, could turn into a haven for
some 30,000 immigrants and unemployed nationals.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
MEXICO: Kidnapped Migrant Women - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
MEXICO CITY, Nov 14 (IPS) - "I don't see any investigation, only grief
and despair," said Heyman Vázquez, a Catholic priest who runs
a shelter for migrants on the border between the southern Mexican
states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, referring to the recent kidnappings
of 20 Central American women by groups of armed men.
Catégories: Humanitarian news
