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RIGHTS-SPAIN: Conditions Getting Tougher for Immigrants
By Tito Drago
MADRID - Immigrants in Spain are getting a raw deal from state institutions and at the same time from small and medium business owners, who not only take unfair advantage of them, but sometimes also physically ill-treat them.
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US: Children Call for End to Immigration Raids
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona - It has been two months since Katherine Figueroa has shared a meal with her parents. Both of them are undocumented workers that were arrested in a workplace raid last June by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office here.
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EUROPE: Financial Crisis Leads to Rapes
By Pavol Stracansky
PRAGUE - Several groups across Eastern Europe have called for a crackdown on mafia-run job agencies amid reports that their members are raping and torturing migrant workers who have lost their jobs in the economic crisis.
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COLOMBIA: A Country in Flight
Analysis by Javier Darío Restrepo
BOGOTÁ - While the street sweepers clean up huge piles of rubbish in the Tercer Milenio park in the centre of the Colombian capital, young police officers have been posted there to prevent any more people displaced from their rural homes by the armed conflict from trying to camp there.
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Q&A: 'We Do Not Want to See The Blame Game'
Prime Sarmiento interviews Mohamed Aslam, Maldives Environment Minister
MANILA - Developing economies are vulnerable to climate change and need funds to implement much needed adaptation and mitigation measures. This is one of the key points that needs to be addressed during the next round of U.N.-led negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen, according to Mohamed Aslam, Maldives Minister of Housing, Transport and Environment.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: 75 Million Environmental Refugees to Plague Asia-Pacific
By Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY - Pacific Islanders, aiming to secure their very survival, are calling for immediate commitments from the developed world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 percent by 2020.
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MIDEAST: 'Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Boy'
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEL AVIV - "And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God" (Genesis 22:12). Not so much in fear of God as in fear of their own conscience, Israeli leaders have given temporary relief to hundreds of children of foreign workers who were facing deportation with their parents.
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EUROPE: Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Males
By Pavol Stracansky
BRATISLAVA - Governments and third sector organisations must raise awareness of a growing problem with male human trafficking in some of Eastern Europe's poorest countries if its victims are to get the help they need, people trafficking monitors say.
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NICARAGUA: Zelaya's Followers at Risk of Humanitarian Emergency
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - The huge number of supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya who have flocked to a small farming town in the north of Nicaragua have caused a social emergency that could spiral into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis, said United Nations officials visiting the area.
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GREECE: Zero Tolerance, Zero Concern
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - Increasing evidence has surfaced that a zero tolerance policy is denying due protection to people fleeing hardship, and condemning them to degrading treatment.
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MIGRATION-US: Profiling Persists Despite Revamped Guidelines
By Valeria Fernández
MESA. Arizona - A three-day widely publicised immigration raid by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office left the city of Mesa like a ghost town. Small businesses closed. Workers stayed home to avoid being pulled over and questioned for documents.
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MIGRATION: Abandoned Between Two States
By Apostolis Fotiadis
IZMIR, Turkey - Isabelle Caillol, an activist with the Turkish branch of the human rights advocacy group Helsinki Citizens Assembly, sent a mass email to pro-migrant activists in Greece in May seeking help to find the family of Abbas Khavari, a 14-year-old Afghan refugee born in Iran.
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HEALTH-INDIA: High Morbidity Mars Kerala Women's Progress
By K.S. Harikrishnan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - While Kerala, in southwest India, enjoys enviable indices when it comes to health and human development, the state seems unable to shake off high chronic morbidity rates among its women.
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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.