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Protection for Salvadoran Migrants En Route to U.S.
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - A law to protect Salvadoran migrants, who are frequently victims of attacks and abuses on their way to the United States, is nearing entry into force after having been approved over a year ago. All that remains is for a body made up of civil society organisations to be created to implement it.
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Manila and Moscow Inch Closer to Labour Agreement
By Kester Kenn Klomegah
MOSCOW - As the number of migrant Filipino workers in Russia inches closer to 5000, Moscow and Manila are busy negotiating a bilateral labour agreement that could allow thousands more overseas workers into various sectors of the Russian economy.
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Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
By Rebecca Murray
KUFRA, Libya - As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers.
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U.S.
Ethnic Minority Youth Lead New Wave of Student Activism
By Gabriel Schivone
TUCSON, Arizona - In December 1985, The New York Times reported on what was believed to be the first anti-apartheid conference of U.S. high schools discussing divestment from corporations operating in South Africa.
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U.S. Should Double Aid to Curb Violence in Central America: Report
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The United States should double aid to Central America and focus it more on programmes designed to strengthen the region's criminal justice institutions to help curb the skyrocketing violence in the region, according to a new report published by an influential foreign policy group.
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Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India when she was just 16 years old in 1990.
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France Caught Between Right and Left
By A. D. McKenzie
PARIS - French workers turned out in droves on May 1, International Workers’ Day, to back their political candidates ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections next Sunday. But France’s "working class" has largely turned to the Far Right, after a long tradition of voting Left.
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Mali - Barely Surviving As One Country, Let Alone Two
By William Lloyd-George
ABALA, Niger - It was the middle of the day when Tabisou, 72, suddenly saw people from her town of Amderamboukane in Mali fleeing for their lives. Her family had no time to pack their things; the fighting had already begun.
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European Refugees Meet Austerity-Era Hostility
By Claudia Ciobanu
WARSAW - As the economic slump drags on in Europe, refugees and immigrants are keeping a wary eye on state budgets, as governments in the throes of austerity slash the social protections and public services that minorities rely on.
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Taking Refuge in Hell Camp
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR - "We have been spending sleepless nights without electricity and clean water. This place is not worth living in but we have no option and will remain here as long as the military operation continues in our area," said Gul Rahim, a former resident of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, currently languishing in the Jallozai refugee camp in the Nowshera district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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U.S.-Mexico Border Build-Up Found Excessive
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - While Republican politicians and other "border hawks" call for ever-tougher measures to secure the U.S.-Mexican border against drug trafficking and illegal immigration, a one-year bi-national study released here Thursday suggests that current efforts may be excessive.
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Filipino Workers Caught in Syrian Crossfire
By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau
CAIRO - As pressure mounts on the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to keep up an uncertain truce, human rights advocates are demanding reforms to a sponsorship system that has left many migrant domestic workers in Syria with no place to run.
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When Immigrants Become the Football
By A. D. McKenzie
PARIS - Candidates in the French presidential election are coming to use the word ‘immigrant’ like a ball to be kicked around from one side to another, analysts say. "Boot all the immigrants out, and everything will be fine. That’s the seductive and deceptive message from some candidates," says French professor Nonna Mayer.
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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.