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U.S.: Detained Migrant Women Shackled During Childbirth
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4 hours 27 min ago
PHOENIX, Arizona, Mar 4 (IPS) - When Maricopa County sheriff's deputies raided
Celia Alejandra Alvarez's workplace and discovered her
hiding place, she says they lifted her off her feet and slammed
her face into a wall, causing injuries to her jaw and teeth.
Later, in detention for having false documents, she says she was
not given medical care.
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RIGHTS-AUSTRIA: Migrants Issue Stokes Political Passions
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4 hours 27 min ago
VIENNA, Mar 2 (IPS) - Support for the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) in
Austria has soared amid debate over controversial plans for the
construction of a new centre to house asylum seekers.
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MIGRATION: France Urges EU to Tighten Mediterranean Borders
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4 hours 27 min ago
PARIS, Mar 1 (IPS) - The European Union is studying a range of measures
aimed at strengthening its external borders to deter undocumented
migrants from entering via Mediterranean member states such as
Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain.
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JORDAN: Where Iraqi Women Are Also Fathers
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4 hours 27 min ago
AMMAN, Feb 28 (IPS) - Back in Najaf, Iraq, Khayzaran and her family lived
in a well-kept house. They had two cars and a small orchard. Her
children, two girls and three boys, attended school and came home
to modest feasts.
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RIGHTS-EUROPE: Military Technology to Track Down Migrants?
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4 hours 27 min ago
BRUSSELS, Feb 25 (IPS) - Arms manufacturers have been asked to advise an
official European Union (EU) body on how their products can be
used to stop asylum seekers entering the bloc’s territory.
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RIGHTS-FRANCE: Policy Ignores Deeper Questions of Migration
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4 hours 27 min ago
PARIS, Feb 24 (IPS) - European Union immigration ministers will hold a
special meeting Thursday to
adopt a new policy to protect the
region's external borders against
undocumented migration,
French immigration minister Eric Besson has
announced.
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RIGHTS-THAILAND: Fears of Mass Deportation of Migrants Rise
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4 hours 27 min ago
BANGKOK, Feb 22 (IPS) - Dao, a migrant worker from Burma, is struggling to
make a decision that could
affect not only her but her family as
well. "There are many things to worry
about," sighed the
Shan state native who works in the northern Thai city of
Chiang
Mai.
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MIDEAST: Opposition Grows Against Egypt-Gaza Barrier
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4 hours 27 min ago
CAIRO, Feb 22 (IPS) - Activists and opposition groups are stepping up
pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a
barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the
barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it
will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip.
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EUROPE: Fight Female Mutilation Harder Activists Urge EU
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4 hours 27 min ago
VIENNA, Feb 17 (IPS) - With hundreds of thousands of girls and women
believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in
Europe, rights groups have mounted a campaign to get EU leaders
to stop what they see as a barbaric and dangerous procedure.
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U.S.: Deportation System Called "Severely Flawed"
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4 hours 27 min ago
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (IPS) - The number of people deported from the U.S.
annually has grown from just over 69,000 to over 356,000 in the
past eight years, while resource-starved immigration judges issue
decisions without sufficient time to conduct legal research and
analyse the complex cases they are asked to decide.
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HAITI: Tensions Put on Hold as Dominican Republic Reaches Out
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4 hours 27 min ago
SANTO DOMINGO, Feb 11 (IPS) - Despite a history of often tense relations, the
first nation to render assistance to Haiti after last
month's devastating earthquake was its island neighbour, the
Dominican Republic.
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INDIA: Lay-offs from Recession-hit Gulf Lead to New Lives at Home
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4 hours 27 min ago
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Feb 9 (IPS) - Domestic worker Beena Joy, 35, came back
empty-handed after losing her job in recession-hit United Arab
Emirates, but soon found that getting laid-off has given her a
happier life back home here in this southern Indian city.
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GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
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4 hours 27 min ago
ATHENS, Feb 9 (IPS) - The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement
(PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will
greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and
criticised by rights organisations and activists.
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RIGHTS-INDIA: Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
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4 hours 27 min ago
NEW DELHI, Feb 6 (IPS) - If medals are being given out for backbreaking
labour on miserable wages and
impossible working conditions,
thousands of migrant workers, slaving to
complete stadia and
other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in
the
Indian capital, will be the champions.
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MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
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4 hours 27 min ago
SAN DIEGO, California, Feb 5 (IPS) - Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has
made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of
government officials and developing software tools meant to
disrupt the status quo.
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HAITI: "Anywhere but here"
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Thu, 11/03/2010 - 10:55
PORT-AU-PRINCE Friday, January 22, 2010 (IRIN) - Throughout the debris-strewn streets of Haiti's capital, residents are carrying mattresses, duffel bags tied with electric cord and faded cloth bags stuffed with kitchen goods. When asked where they are going, answers vary from their home village to "anywhere but here".
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HAITI/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: New-found friends?
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Thu, 11/03/2010 - 10:55
SANTO DOMINGO/PORT-AU-PRINCE Thursday, January 21, 2010 (IRIN) - Within one week of the earthquake that drove tens of thousands of Haitians out of their homes, its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic, is being transformed into a base for humanitarian efforts, from border soup kitchens to road convoys, warehouses, and visa waivers for humanitarian workers.
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LIBERIA: Urban gardens to boost food security
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Thu, 11/03/2010 - 10:55
MONROVIA Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (IRIN) - Farmers are turning to urban gardens as a way to boost food security in Liberia’s Montserrado County, where just one percent of residents grow their own produce today compared to 70 percent before the war.
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KENYA: Northern Kenya travelogue: part three
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Thu, 11/03/2010 - 10:55
MARSABIT Monday, January 18, 2010 (IRIN) - This is the final part of our travelogue detailing the journey into the heart of northern Kenya by an IRIN reporter.
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YEMEN-HORN OF AFRICA: African arrivals in 2009 up 55 percent
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Thu, 11/03/2010 - 10:55
SANAA Sunday, January 17, 2010 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) received 77,802 new arrivals from the Horn of Africa in 2009, a 55 percent increase over 2008 and the first time Somalis were not the majority nationality, the agency's external relations officer Rocco Nuri told IRIN in Sanaa on 16 January.
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