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IPS Inter Press Refugees
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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UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
If the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could
help 97 million people around the world.
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The Ancient Wither in New Iraq
"I'd say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next
week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in
Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish." Anxiety about the future of
his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid,
chairman of Basra's Mandaean Council.
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SWITZERLAND: Resistance Rises to Asylum Seekers
Switzerland saw a 45 percent increase in asylum requests compared in 2011 to
the year before. The country struggles to accommodate the new asylum seekers
while efforts to put up new centres face fierce resistance by local people.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict
In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last
name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin.
The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor
county that killed her mother and sisters.
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MEXICO: Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future
The year 2012 started off with little promise for workers in
Mexico, with analysts projecting job losses and wages below
subsistence levels.
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Haitian Diaspora Tests Brazil's International Solidarity
Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States and Europe, is now facing its own humanitarian challenge: applying the international solidarity it trumpets to the Haitians who are arriving in the thousands, in search of a better life.
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KYRGYZSTAN: China Expanding Influence, One Student at a Time
Among its Central Asian neighbours, China these days is more
often feared than loved. This attitude is perhaps most
apparent in Kyrgyzstan, where despite an overwhelming
dependence on Chinese imports, Chinese-owned malls and mining
pits have been the subject of attacks in recent years;
nationalist editorials in the local press play on fears of the
Middle Kingdom.
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PORTUGAL: No Jobs? Just Emigrate!
Hounded by the economic crisis that shows no signs of letting up and by political leaders of all stripes, Portugal's conservative Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sent out an unprecedented message to his fellow citizens: emigrate.
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Cubans Hope for Migration Reform
Whether or not they live in Cuba, whatever their political affiliation, most people consulted by IPS want changes to Cuban migration policy that include three key elements: freedom, rights and normalisation.
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False Perceptions Underpin Anti-Migrant Sentiments
The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused
primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on
migration, according to a new study released here.
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TAJIKISTAN: President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe
Following a diplomatic faux pas that enraged Russia, the
knives seem to be out for Tajikistan's long-time president,
Imomali Rahmon.
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ISRAEL: Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention
Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than
200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted "Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!", and
demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian
Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of
increasingly tough policies by the Israelis.
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Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid
Despite a global economic crisis, worsening employment prospects for immigrants and hardening views on immigration in the U.S. and Europe, migrant workers are sending more money home, according to a World Bank report on global remittances released Wednesday.
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Andean Migrant Women Create Opportunities
Women make up a majority of migrants from South America's Andean region and they send more money home to their families than men, according to a study carried out in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
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US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women
Today marks the first of "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence", a
campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.
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Q&A: The Finer Points of Rising Sea Levels
Long before the Pacific will rise to a level that will leave its estimated 30,000
islands submerged, most of them might be severely affected by frequent
flooding and storms.
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ASIA-PACIFIC: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily
Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit
hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research
indicates.
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U.S.: 2010 Saw Record Number of International Students
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of international
students studying in the U.S. increased, hitting an all-time
record high, according to a report released Monday by the
Institute of International Education (IIE) at the start of
International Education Week.
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Indonesian Migrants Facing Death Get Legal Aid from Home
With 221 Indonesian migrant workers facing death sentences in
China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the government of Indonesia
has approved a legal aid budget to assist these workers, who
often do not have access to such assistance otherwise.
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TAJIKISTAN: Dushanbe's Plane Caper Not Flying with the Kremlin
Memo to leaders of Central Asian nations that lack abundant
energy resources: messing with Moscow usually backfires.
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