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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  22 hours ago

• Muslims must quit British armed forces, says Khamenei’s envoy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Nov 14(ANI): Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s Special Envoy to Britain has called on Muslim servicemen and women in the British armed forces to quit service, saying their involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is forbidden by Islam. Abdolhossein Moezi said that it was wrong for followers ...
  1 day ago

• HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: MIGRANT WORKERS STRUGGLE TO SUPPORT FAMILIES INSIDE BURMA

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  KIC KIC- Some people say, “Home is where the heart is.” That the case for Nag Lin Lin (not her real name), a young Burmese woman who lives and works in Bangkok, but, wants desperately to live at home with her family in Kyeik Don, sub-township in Kawka Reik township, in Karen State. But, like many young Burmese, ...
  2 days ago

• Britain will clamp down on skilled migrants too: Brown

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Nov 12 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, besieged by immigration issues six months ahead of elections, Thursday whittled down a list of jobs that are open to highly-skilled migrants, declaring: “Immigration will fall.”Hospital consultants, civil engineers, aircraft engineers and ship’s officers ...
  3 days ago

• Lou Dobbs

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 533
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• Burmese patients continue to flock to Mea Tao Clinic

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  Wed 11 Nov 2009, Asah The Mae Tao clinic, which is located in Mae Sot, on the Thai side of the Thai–Burma border, has continued to attract thousands of ill and injured Burmese people not only with its close proximity to Burmese villages, but with its policy of treating migrants and refugees for little or no patient ...
  4 days ago

• Temporary passport for 2000 Burmese migrants-VDO

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  Only 2000 among two millions Burmese migrant workers got temporary passport yet
  4 days ago

• War’s ‘Lost Boy’ grows up to graduate from college

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Kuol Dut was six when the swirling chaos of war churned through his village. He recalls playing in a field as neighbors raced toward him, screaming about militias attacking their homes. Even a boy of Kuol’s age knew that militias and soldiers slaughtered men, women and children in the ...
  4 days ago

• Smell of appeasement surrounds asylum-seeker deal

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• MIGRANTS ARE A VALUABLE RESOURCE

  
  MetroCatholic — Authority: 484
  VATICAN CITY, 9 NOV 2009 ( VIS ) – At midday today the Pope received participants in the Sixth World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. The event – which is being held in the Vatican from 9 to 12 November – has as its theme: “A pastoral response to the phenomenon of migration in the era ...
  5 days ago

• Migrants call for passport office in Thailand

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  More than 200 migrant workers who attended a seminar held at the Chiangmai University yesterday said they deeply distrusted the ongoing Nationality Verification Process after which temporary passports are being issued to qualified applicants. Only 4 had expressed confidence. So far only about 2,000 have received their ...
  5 days ago

• CMCF member guest at Government apology

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 147
  A retiring committee member of the Canberra Multicultural Community Forum, Patrick O’Flaherty, will be a special guest at Parliament House on Monday, November 16 to hear a formal apology to the ‘Forgotten Australians’ and former child migrants by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The apology will be made to more than ...
  5 days ago

• Thanksgiving comes early for Iraqi refugees in Knoxville

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  The war in Iraq hits home for many people in Tennessee, especially during the holidays. For a group of Iraqis in Knoxville, the war ultimately forced them seek refuge in the United States where they now celebrate American holidays. Sunday afternoon, several local families hosted a Thanksgiving party at Jubilee Farms ...
  5 days ago

• Migrant labourer killed in Manipur

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Imphal, Nov 10 (ANI): Shankar Sahu, a migrant labourer working in Manipur was shot by unidentified people here on Monday. This is the third attack on migrants in the state since October 31.Sahu (23) from Bihar was working here for the last many years. He was shot at by some unidentified miscreants while he was [...]
  5 days ago

• Rapid settlement for Oceanic Viking refugees

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Lebanon: Deadly Month for Domestic Workers

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 679
  (Beirut) - The Lebanese government should investigate the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers during October 2009, as well as the reasons for the disproportionately high death rate among this group of workers, Human Rights Watch said today. An estimated 200,000 domestic workers, primarily from Sri Lanka, the ...
  6 days ago

• အမ်ိဳးသမီး (၇၀)ခန္႔ကို အဓၶမျပဳက်င့္ခဲ့သည့္ ယာဥ္ေမာင္းႏွစ္ဦးအား ဖမ္းဆီး

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေတာင္ပိုင္း ပထံုဌာနီၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး (၄၀)ခန္႔ကို အဓၶမျပဳက်င့္ခဲ့သူ အငွားကား ...
  6 days ago

• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le salutes two Vietnamese officers during a welcoming ceremony in Danang.  DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his family’s side lost the Vietnam War, 5-year-old Hung Ba Le fled his homeland in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming - ...
  6 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  1 week ago

• The new underclass

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 434
  Who haven’t heard of immigration queue jumpers? The current federal government used this term when it shut down visa-free travel from the Czech Republic and Mexico. Federal officials blamed queue jumping refugee claimants. But if someone jumps the queue, it’s not refugees as much as it is temporary guest workers. ...
  1 week ago

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