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• Smell of appeasement surrounds asylum-seeker deal

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Amanda Hodge; 12/11/09; (3 Items)The Australian government came to Sri Lanka this week bearing gifts in the hope of winning co-operation in its bid to reduce asylum-seeker numbers. One was material: $11 million towards de-mining the former northern conflict zone and resettling about 250,000 civilians still held behind ...
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• The refugees of boom-and-bust

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 564
  At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.Related Posts Singapore’s economic boom widens income gap Related Posts ...
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• Migrant Gets £20 Fine For Groping Girl, 13

  
  Barnsley BNP — Authority: 117
  A MIGRANT worker who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old was fined just £20 - the day before the girls dad got a £50 parking ticket. How would you feel if it was your daughter who had been sexually assaulted? Why only a £20 fine? That is no deterrent for a sexual predator, who likes to grope young girls and ...
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• For Some Chinese Migrants, A Fruitful Homecoming

  
  Blogger — Authority: 164
  The global recession put an estimated 20 million of China’s migrant laborers out of work. Most had moved to the coast for jobs that disappeared. Beijing feared unrest, inland areas have absorbed some of the surplus labor.
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• Rapid settlement for Oceanic Viking refugees

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Paul Maley & Stephen Fitzpatrick; 10/11/09; (3 Items)The 78 asylum-seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking have been promised rapid resettlement in Australia, Canada or New Zealand but have refused to leave the Customs vessel if it means going back into immigration detention. As Foreign Minister Stephen Smith held talks ...
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• If there are NO unions at the workplace, will workers (including migrant workers) be allowed to form a union?

  
  CHARLES HECTOR — Authority: 120
  Should workers be allowed to organize? Should they be allowed to form unions, associations, clubs, societies, etc...? Of course, workers should be allowed to organize .... form unions or associations. One of the functions of these associations and unions would be to look into the welfare of workers, and by welfare, ...
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• Biharis, a Threat to Sikkimese: Sikkim Party

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 156
  Gangtok, Nov 9 : The Sikkim Nationalist People’s Party (SNPP) today claimed that migrant population, mostly Biharis, posed a serious threat to socio-economic rights of the local people. “What Thackeray has been ‘rightly’ saying in Maharashtra was also true in Sikkim as the migrant people, mostly from Bihar, ...
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• no borders newsletter ‘movement’ issue 1

  
  the commune — Authority: 475
  The first issue of ‘Movement’, a monthly newsletter covering the latest updates from the No Borders Network and beyond has been published. We are re-launching the No Borders Newsletter in an attempt to create a more regular and broad based publication. Click image below for PDF. The issue features ...
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• Before... And... After

  
  LIANAIN FILMS — Authority: 450
  Remember that hovel in District 9 ? For months, dozens of Chinese migrant workers lived in filth in the middle of Singapores poshest neighbourhood. And then, one very brave man decided to say something. His little video triggered outrage on the internet. It even led to a petition for better living conditions for ...
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• Baba Ramdev condemns Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s anti-Bihar remark

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Mathura, Nov. 7 (ANI): Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday slammed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan for stating that migrant labourers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh would not be welcomed to work in his state.“The Constitution of India has given right to every citizen of the country to migrate and ...
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• Jakarta fearful of asylum-seeker fallout

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Stephen Fitzpatrick; 7/11/09; (3 Items)Kevin Rudd might have been given another week to solve his Oceanic Viking public relations disaster, but that doesn’t mean Indonesia is very happy about it.  As the Australian Customs vessel with its cargo of 78 Sri Lankans sits in waters off Tanjung Pinang and the monsoon ...
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• Calais Update

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  A carload of activists from No Borders South Wales are in Calais with the group Calais Migrant Solidarity.The weather was awful at the beginning of the week, cold with heavy sudden rain showers; dangerous weather for people forced to live on the streets. We set out on Tuesday morning to deliver warm clean clothes to ...
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• Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 435
  Ive blogged before on the situation of migrant domestic workers -- largely composed of females and ethnic minorities, without permanent legal status and working in the "private" sphere, this group of laborers is uniquely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All ...
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• Swine flu menace looms large over Nepal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Kathmandu, Nov 6 (IANS) Though not yet having lost a patient to swine flu, Nepal Friday sounded an alarm after the discovery that the epidemic could be spreading in two districts in the west where school children and security personnel tested positive for the disease.Schools were closed in Parbat and its neighbouring ...
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• No shipload of whites fleeing disaster would be treated like this

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  John Pilger; 6/11/09; This is an edited extract from Breaking the Australian Silence,the City of Sydney lecture last night at the Opera House by John Pilger, the 2009 recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize.The Australian silence has unique features. It affects our national life, the way we see the world, and the way we ...
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• An anxious wait for loved ones lost by Sri Lankan asylum-seekers

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Amanda Hodge, Kalaru, & Stephen Fitzpatrick; 6/11/09 (3 Items)From Sri Lanka to Indonesia, the waiting stretches across an ocean. In Kalaru, a former Tamil Tiger stronghold on Sri Lanka’s east coast, anxious villagers await news of friends and loved ones who set sail on the open sea for Australia and have not ...
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• New Migrant-Rights Design

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 519
  We are happy to share with you the new redesign of one of our projects, Migrant-Rights.org . Migrant-Rights was created to raise awareness about the common abuse of migrant workers in the region. We worked hard on this design, trying to make the site more welcoming and increase its functionality. We hope you like it! ...
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• UN lauds UAE for labour reforms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Abu Dhabi, Nov 5 (IANS) The UN has lauded the efforts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for improving the conditions of its migrant workers engaged in various sectors, WAM news agency reported Thursday.The global organisation hoped other countries in the region would follow the UAE example.Peter Sutherland, special ...
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• Under a bridge migrant workers in Saudi Arabia wait to get arrested

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Larita Delacruz sits on the concrete base of a bridge pylon rubs her swollen belly and explains her predicament: she is five months pregnant with twins and wants to go home to give birth.
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• Peace prizewinner John Pilger denounces Kevin Rudd as hypocrite

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Caroline Overington; 5/11/09Some people think the Sydney Peace Prize has become the Australian equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize: given to people who have done nothing, or nothing much, for peace. This year’s choice won’t comfort those critics. The prize and the $50,000 cheque went last night to Australian-born ...
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