Global IssuesNews headlines for “Immigration”, page 9
Lebanon’s Deep Healthcare Crisis Exposed through Communicable Diseases
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT & TORONTO, Jul 08 (IPS) - This summer is bringing an additional challenge to the public health front in Lebanon, along with higher-than-normal temperatures.
Emergence of a New Proletariat
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 08 (IPS) - Immigrants are essential to Europe’s economic survival. They are needed for doing the jobs that most Europeans no longer want to do. Jobs that involve manual labor in agriculture and industry; or providing home help, care for the elderly; or working un-social hours in the catering business.
Refugees, migrants face violence, abuse and death on routes across Africa, new data shows
- UN News
Refugees and migrants continue to face extreme forms of violence, exploitation and death on sea and on land across Africa as they move through the continent, UN agencies said on Friday, in an appeal to border authorities to do more to protect them.
Myanmar: International Action Urgently Needed
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jul 03 (IPS) - Myanmar’s army, at war with pro-democracy forces and ethnic militias, must know it’s nowhere near victory. It recently came close to losing control of Myawaddy, one of the country’s biggest cities, at a key location on the border with Thailand. Many areas are outside its control.
World News in Brief: Burkina Faso, refugees and climate change, Afghan women deserve seat in Doha: CEDAW
- UN News
Resources are desperately needed to ramp up aid supplies for Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, which is staring at an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis”, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
EUROPE: ‘The Future of the Eu as We Know Cannot Be Taken for Granted’
- Inter Press Service
The recent European elections saw significant advances by far-right parties in some but all European Union (EU) countries. They made gains in countries including Austria, Germany and France, where an early parliamentary election has been called as a consequence. In other countries, however, far-right parties stood still or lost support, while green and left-wing parties made gains. Overall, the EU’s mainstream conservative bloc held its leading position, but the results raise questions about the direction of EU policy on issues such as climate and migration.
Record levels of displacement amid global conflict and natural disasters
- UN News
There are twice as many internally displaced people today as there were ten years ago - the largest numbers ever recordedsaid Special Advisor on Solutions to Internal Displacement Robert Piperon Friday.
Honour the strength and courage of refugees, urges UN chief
- UN News
“Conflict, climate chaos and upheaval” have forced more than 120 million people from their homes including 43.5 million who have fled across national borders said the UN Secretary-General in his message for World Refugee Day, marked on Thursday.
Parent, technician, farmer, merchant: What more can a teacher be?
- UN News
On World Refugee Daymarked annually on 20 June, meet some of the multi-talented teachers and principals of migrant learning centres in Thailand along the border with Myanmar, who, with UN support, are doing all they can to keep up with the influx of children seeking sanctuary.
Worldwide levels of forced displacement hit new high: UNHCR
- UN News
This year and last have seen historically high levels of forced displacement worldwide according to the UN refugee agency’s (UNHCR) 2024 flagship Global Trends Report published on Thursday.
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