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UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
By Bari Bates
BRUSSELS - 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
By Karlos Zurutuza
BASRA - "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
By Ray Smith
LUCERNE, Switzerland - 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
By Jared Ferrie
PIBOR, South Sudan - 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
By Guadalupe Cruz Jaimes*
MEXICO CITY - 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
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - 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
By Chris Rickleton*
BISHKEK - 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!
By Mario Queiroz
LISBON - 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
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - 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
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - 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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Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid
By Amanda Wilson
WASHINGTON - 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
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - 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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TAJIKISTAN
President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe
By Konstantin Parshin*
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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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.