Global IssuesNews headlines for “Immigration”, page 36
International Migrants Day: 280 million people leave home for ‘a better life’
- UN News
More than 280 million people have left their countries to pursue “opportunity, dignity, freedom, and a better life”, the UN chief said on Sunday, International Migrants Day.
New UN report warns against ‘dehumanizing’ migrants looking for work
- UN News
No one should have to surrender their human right to migrate in order to find a living wage, the UN human rights office, OHCHR said in a new report published on Friday, highlighting the importance of temporary migratory labour programmes.
Borderlands and Bloodbaths: The case of Congo and Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec 15 (IPS) - During November, soldiers of the March 23 Movement (M23) have been approaching Goma in the eastern territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), close to the Rwandan border. About 180.000 people are now leaving Goma, a city with a million inhabitants. Many stakeholders are involved in the conflict and there is an apparent danger that the overall carnage that affected the Congolese eastern border areas fifteen years ago will resume. At the same time, war is ranging in Ukraine, which name likely comes from the old Slavic term for borderland.
The Humanitarian Rescue Fleet Faces Hurricane Meloni
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Dec 13 (IPS) - It was a hellish journey aboard a crammed boat amid three-meter waves. It had started on a Libyan beach, and at the gates of winter. On December 11, the last 500 migrants rescued from the waters of the Mediterranean disembarked exhausted but relieved in the south of Italy. They had all been rescued by vessels run by NGOs Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS Humanity.
Europe and the Refugee Crisis: Its all About Tackling Racism & Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Dec 08 (IPS) - In 2019, when the President-elect of the European Union (EU) Ursula von der Leyen had presented a list for her soon-to-be European Commission, and on that list was a portfolio called “Protecting the European way of life”, a lot of noise was made questioning what that meant. “Protection” was later changed to the “Promotion” of the European Way of Life. It’s been over three years since this very controversial, much debated and widely criticised portfolio as many continue to question what uniquely is the ‘European way of life’?
South Sudan: ‘Raw violence’ displaces thousands during ‘ruthless conflict’, UNHCR says
- UN News
Throughout South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile Region “desperation is rising” as escalating armed conflict, which has displaced at least 20,000 people since August, have forced some to run for their lives up to four times, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday.
Record support brings ‘hope for a brighter future’ for forcibly displaced: UNHCR
- UN News
Governments around the world pledged $1.13 billion on Tuesday to provide a lifeline to people displaced by war, violence and human rights violations, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
Drought, conflict force 80,000 Somalis to shelter in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps
- UN News
Tens of thousands of people have sought shelter in recent weeks at Kenya’s Dadaab camps, forced from their homes by extremist violence in neighbouring Somalia and an “unrelenting” drought, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
Dramatic increase in Andaman Sea crossings, warns UN refugee agency
- UN News
UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday, issued an alert over the dramatic increase in the number of people attempting to cross the Andaman Sea, from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Illegal Immigration: A Mounting Global Crisis
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Dec 01 (IPS) - Illegal immigration has evolved into a mounting crisis for a growing number of countries worldwide and governments appear to be at a loss on how to deal with the crisis.
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