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. MORE >>
MIGRATION-BRAZIL: Gov't Engages Three Million Far-Flung Citizens By Mario OsavaRIO 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. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Is It Time to Plan Another U.N. Population Meet? By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS - When the United Nations commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 1994 landmark conference on population and development (ICPD) last week, one of the questions lingering in the minds of many seemed obvious: is it time to plan another major conference on population? MORE >>
NICARAGUA: Young People Exiled by Poverty By José Adán SilvaMANAGUA - If they could, about 60 percent of Nicaraguans under 30 would go to live abroad, according to studies on migration, which find that the country's chronic poverty is the main reason for wanting to migrate. MORE >>
BULGARIA: Migrants Denied Even Medicine By Claudia CiobanuBUCHAREST - Hasun Albaadzh, an asylum-seeker from Syria, died Oct. 6 at the Busmantsi detention centre on the outskirts of Bulgarian capital Sofia. He had been held at Busmantsi for 34 months - considerably more than the maximum legal period of detention - and had been denied proper medical care. MORE >>
WATER-ZIMBABWE : New Wells Protect Environment, Build Peace By Vusumuzi SifileSHAMVA, Zimbabwe - Twenty years ago, Isaac Chidavaenzi would worry when his neighbours set up vegetable gardens on river banks, trying to get closer to water sources. The number of gardens on the rivers' banks has now decreased, but Chidavaenzi is even more worried. MORE >>
GUATEMALA: Only 10 Agents to Fight Human Trafficking Nationwide By Danilo ValladaresGUATEMALA CITY - In spite of a new law against human trafficking in effect since March, little has been done in Guatemala to fight the trafficking of children, and child sex tourism has begun to flourish, experts warn. MORE >>
EL SALVADOR: An Indigenous Language That Refuses to Die By Edgardo AyalaSAN SALVADOR - "Yek shiajfikan" reads a sign hanging above the gate of the "Dr. Mario Calvo Marroquín" elementary school in the Salvadoran town of Izalco, welcoming pupils in Nawat, the language that was spoken by the area’s native communities. MORE >>
SWITZERLAND: Undocumented Migrants Run Their Own School By Ray SmithZURICH - Switzerland is a tough place for asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants. In Zurich, they have been running a remarkable campaign for the past year, challenging the canton's asylum policy. Now, they have opened their own school. MORE >>
YEMEN: Children Flee Fighting By Phoebe Greenwood*AMRAN, Yemen - As the conflict between government forces and Houthi fighters grinds on in the mountains of Saada in northern Yemen, thousands of Yemeni civilians, many of them children, are being forced from their homes by the fighting. MORE >>
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