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RIGHTS: Tick the Right Box If You Feel French

By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - The stereotypical image of a French person is of someone wearing a beret and carrying a baguette under his arm. But can one wear a burqa and also be French? Can one prefer pitta bread to baguettes and still be French?
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MIDEAST: Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
By Mel Frykberg
EZBT ABBED RABBO - Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
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SWEDEN: 'Freemovers' Get Trapped
By Ida Karlsson
STOCKHOLM - After a spell of sleeping rough at the railway station, Farid has a roof over his head, by way of a small room he shares with five other students.
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MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
By Emilio Godoy
AYOQUEZCO, Mexico - Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.
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MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEL AVIV - "Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat."
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RIGHTS-US: NGOs Praise End to HIV Travel Ban
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Global health and U.S. AIDS activists are hailing President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that the government will end a 22-year-old ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive visitors.
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U.S.: Arizona Renews Push to Criminalise Immigrants
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona - Arizona could become the first state in the U.S. to criminalise the very presence of undocumented immigrants.
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US-ECUADOR: Luring Migrants Home an Uphill Battle
By Benedict Moran
NEW YORK - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has a Ph.D. in economics, though it may not have prepared him for the recent financial turmoil that beset his coastal country.
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UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth
By Joshua Kyalimpa
PALEMY, Uganda - Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
Analysis by Lester R. Brown*
WASHINGTON - Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas.
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CHINA: Too Many Graduates, Very Few Jobs
By Antoaneta Bezlova*
BEIJING - Feng Danya studied foreign languages. She had hoped to be part of a growing local company and grow with them, she says. But her timing was wrong. She graduated in the summer of uncertainty for the global economy and many Chinese start-ups.
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ANGOLA: Tit-for-Tat Deportations Leave Thousands At Risk
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - More than 30,000 Angolans are stranded in transit camps after being abruptly deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo and there are growing fears of a cholera outbreak as the rainy season begins.  
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MIGRATION-BRAZIL: Gov't Engages Three Million Far-Flung Citizens
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil, a major source of migrants since the 1980s, is now working at recognising and supporting the rights of the three million Brazilians who are scattered among over 100 countries.
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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.