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Cuban Families Grapple with Migration Reform
Farewells among family members who don’t know when they will see each other again are frequent in the Havana airport. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños /IPSBy Ivet GonzálezHAVANA, Oct 20 2012 (IPS)Her voice is...
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Q&A: Turning Remittances into National Profits in LDCs
Isolda Agazzi interviews SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)By Isolda AgazziGENEVA, Nov 28 2012 (IPS)Remittances to the world’s...
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Europe and the United States, Allies in Crisis
In this column, Professor Joaquín Roy, Professor of European Integration and Director of the European Union Centre at the University of Miami, argues that although the United States and Europe are in...
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Child Migrants – A “Torn Artery” in Central America
At the conclusion of the International Conference on Migration, Childhood and Family, civil society organisations called for migrants to be seen as human beings rather than just statistics in official...
View ArticlePeople Before Borders
By Geneviève Lavoie-MathieuROME, Jul 29 2014 (IPS)With Italy having taken over presidency of the European Union (EU) until December 2014, questions remain regarding Europe’s migration policies as...
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Time Running Out for Refugees Seeking Asylum in Italy
Group of asylum seekers in Casoli, near Bagni di Lucca, Italy. Credit: Silvia Giannelli/IPSBy Silvia GiannelliLUCCA, Italy, Aug 1 2014 (IPS)His journey started four years ago in Conakry, Guinea. Now...
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ANALYSIS: Europe’s Migrant Graveyard
The Italian Navy rescued 1,004 refugees and migrants on 14 August 2014. Some arrived barefoot, some children were shaking with cold. Men, women and children from Syria, Somalia, Gambia, Bangladesh and...
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Trapped Populations – Hostages of Climate Change
When a natural disaster strikes, people are sometimes left with no choice but to leave the areas affected. Yet, for some, even this option might not exist. Cyclone survivors in Myanmar shelter in the...
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EU Inaction Accused of Costing Lives in the Mediterranean
Boat carrying asylum seekers and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Photo credit: UNHCR/L.BoldriniBy Sean BuchananROME, Apr 15 2015 (IPS)“The unbearable number of lives lost at sea will only grow if...
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Germany’s Asylum Seekers – You Can’t Evict a Movement
Refugees in Berlin defied a municipal eviction order in June 2014 with a nine-day hunger strike on the rooftop of a vacant school building using the slogan “You Can’t Evict a Movement” which today has...
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Why ACP Countries Matter for the EU Post-2015 Development Agenda
By Valentina GasbarriBRUSSELS, Jun 9 2015 (IPS)We are witnessing a shift in the original rationale behind the unique relationship between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific...
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Opinion: European Federalism and Missed Opportunities
In this column Emma Bonino, a leading member of the Radical Party, former European Commissioner and a former Italian foreign minister, argues that serious problems affecting Europe, like the Greek...
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Urban Farming Mushrooms in Africa Amid Food Deficits
Urban farming is mushrooming in Africa as starvation hits even town and city dwellers. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPSBy Jeffrey MoyoHARARE, Sep 2 2015 (IPS)There is a scramble for unoccupied land in Africa,...
View ArticleStrong Climate Deal Needed to Combat Future Refugee Crises
Andreas Sieber, who has worked for several NGOs and the Saxon State Chancellery in Germany, is part of the #Climatetracker project.By Andreas SieberSTRASBOURG, Sep 10 2015 (IPS)Climate change has been...
View ArticleA New Framework in an Age of Migration
By Alejo CarpentierROME, Oct 12 2015 (IPS)With the worldwide numbers of displaced people at all-time highs, migration has become the watchword for humanitarian crises. Given the cost in economic,...
View ArticleCOP21 Solved a Dilemma Which Delayed a Global Agreement
By Mario LubetkinROME, Dec 21 2015 (IPS)One of the most significant aspects of the international conference on climate change, concluded in Paris on December 12, is that food security and ending hunger...
View ArticleNew Guidelines Aim to Help Migrants Experiencing Crises
When conflicts or natural disasters occur, migrants are often the “the first hurt and last saved”, Colin Rajah of the Global Coalition on Migration (GCM) said here Wednesday. Rajah was speaking at the...
View ArticleNegligent Central American Leaders Fuel Deepening Refugee Crisis
Erika Guevara-Rosas is Americas Director at Amnesty International.
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Castro’s Successor to Inherit Long-standing Conflict Between Cuba and the...
Cubans wait in line outside the Colombian embassy in Havana, to obtain a visa for Colombia in order to apply for a U.S. visa at the U.S. embassy in Bogotá, due to the reductions in staff in the U.S....
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Global Compact for Migration Backed by Most of the World
Today 164 countries agreed to adopt the first-ever inter-governmentally negotiated agreement to cover all dimensions of international migration. Courtesy: Steven NsamazaBy Steven NsamazaMARRAKECH,...
View ArticleJordanian NGOs Lead the Fight for Migrant Workers’ Rights
By Myriam MerlantAMMAN, Feb 21 2012 (IPS) As the number of domestic workers flooding into Jordan from Indonesia, Philippines and Sri Lanka reaches 140,000 annually, non-governmental organisations on...
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Afghan Refugees Hounded in Pakistan
Many Afghan refugees in Pakistan do odd jobs, like selling vegetables. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Feb 22 2012 (IPS) The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government recently launched a...
View ArticleClimate Change Drives Exodus to Jakarta
By Kafil YaminINDRAMAYU, Indonesia , Jun 1 2012 (IPS) Another month of plying his ‘becak’ (trishaw) in the capital city and Sarjo will be coming back to this West Java district to harvest the rice...
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South Sudan Celebrates a Troubled First Birthday
Nyan Tuch in her temporary home in a camp outside of Aweil where she is living until the government provides her family with land. Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPSBy Jared FerrieJUBA, Jul 9 2012 (IPS) The...
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“Operation No Back Way to Europe” Keeps Young Farmers at Home in Gambia
By Saloum Sheriff JankoBANJUL, Aug 24 2012 (IPS) Mohamed Ceesay, a 20-year-old farmer from the Central River Region in the Gambia, is a high school dropout. But thanks to an initiative to discourage...
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Maldives Talks Condoms
Condom promotion campaign in Male: Credit: SHEBy Feizal SamathMALE, Sep 22 2012 (IPS) For an orthodox Islamic country, the Maldives has made remarkable progress in halting the spread of HIV in the...
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Internationally Trained Medical Doctors are Part of the Solution in...
Dr Shafi Bhuiyan with colleagues. He and his colleagues argue that COVID-19 has exposed gaps in the Canadian healthcare system.By Shafi Bhuiyan and team of ITMDsToronto, Canada, Sep 3 2021 (IPS) Access...
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Tension over Migration Awaits New President and New Constitution in Chile
Yenire (27) and Leonardo (23), together with their children Yeimar (10) and Yemberlin (1), came from Caracas where Leonardo worked sporadically with Loro, his 74-year-old carpenter grandfather. "We...
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Migration for Many Venezuelans Turns from Hope to Nightmare
Venezuelan migrants stranded in Guatemala after their journey to Mexico was cut short by new restrictions issued by the United States. Most of them, unable to afford to return to their home country,...
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