Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – The international community is ramping up efforts to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Libya, with has affected over 200,000 people since the Muammar Gaddafi regime first began a violent crackdown on opposition forces some three weeks ago. [...]
LIBYA:Thousands of Foreign Labourers Trapped in Turmoil
March 3, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara WASHINGTON, Mar 3, 2011 (IPS) – As violent unrest continues unabated in Libya, with the potential to descend into what U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a "protracted civil war" in statements to lawmakers here this week, international rights groups are raising the alarm [...]
BARKHA & HER NDTV TEAM’S DASH TO LIBYA & HER TWITTERATI
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS B.RAMAN There was a beautiful despatch by Barkha Dutt of NDTV from Cairo on March 1 as to how the Twitter had played a role in facilitating the evacuation of a group of stranded Indians from Eastern Libya through Egypt and the humanitarian assistance which they had received [...]
Vietnamese Struggle for a Place in Poland
March 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Robert Stefanicki WARSAW, Feb 28, 2011 (IPS) – Thuan has had little luck. In his youth he joined the "boat people" fleeing Vietnam to Indonesia. Deported back after six years, carrying the stigma of an anti-communist, he could not find a job. In 1999 Thuan (not his [...]
Haiti’s 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain
October 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* GRAND GOÂVE, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in Haiti’s 1,354 squalid refugee camps. She and 1,200 others are jammed into 300 tents and plastic tarp-shacks on a soccer field in Grand Goâve. Like [...]
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Export’ Asylum Centres
October 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) – As the Australian government steps up its efforts to establish a regional processing centre for asylum seekers in East Timor, refugee advocates remain watchful for signs that any deal could result in the involuntary removal from Australia [...]
ECUADOR: Social Movements to Go Ahead with Int’l Meetings Despite Crisis
October 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Oct 7, 2010 (IPS) – "What lies ahead in Colombia is an increase in the number of refugees and displaced persons, while in Guatemala and Mexico people are going to continue leaving their countries in difficult conditions in which they face dangers to their [...]
PAKISTAN: Education Falling Out of Afghan Refugees’ Reach
September 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) – He is only 13 and a refugee in a not-too-hospitable country, but Ahmed Jamal already knows what he wants to do for the next decade or so: follow in the footsteps of his older brother. The 6th grade [...]
POLITICS-AFGHANISTAN: For Refugees, Polls are Far and Near
September 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 20, 2010 (IPS) – Afghan voters just went to national parliamentary elections, but refugees from that country here in neighbouring Pakistan could only rue the fact that they have been left out of this vote. Some two million Afghans living overseas in [...]
