www.abolishforeignness.org/news.xml A website dedicated to the abolition of foreignness and ending human rights violations against non-citizens. en-us Thu, 6 Jan 2011 07:10:00 GMT All rights reserved. hunger immigration maternal health poverty racism child death border death death in detention detention human rights foreignness refugees asylum seekers right to vote http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/article899632.ece/Open-up-the-borders (Times Live) - One of the most important steps forward President Jacob Zuma could take when he addresses the nation this week is to introduce a meaningful national debate on our flawed immigration policy. immigration Mon, 7 Feb 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/8283986/Sri-Lanka-increases-minimum-age-limit-for-migrant-women.html (Telegraph) - The Sri Lankan government has raised the minimum age for women looking to work abroad in the hope of preventing exploitation. immigration Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70Q7CY20110127 (Reuters) - Arizona Republicans are to introduce legislation on Thursday seeking to challenge the right to U.S. citizenship for the children of legal and illegal immigrants born in the state. immigration Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9y6d6gyU0h5-6nN6EIiSytbXXHA?docId=CNG.32ed027d9136847068e1420850fb9209.d11 (AFP) - US immigration authorities have more than quadrupled the number of jobsite inspections for illegal workers in two years, a government report said Wednesday. immigration Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/mexico-says-us-border-agent-killed-boy-3993432 (TVNZ) - A US Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said. immigration Thu,6 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/05/world/main7216491.shtml (CBS) - Greece is considering the use of floating prisons to detain asylum seekers - the latest drastic measure being considered in a crackdown on illegal immigration. immigration Wed,5 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343885/Greece-follows-U-S-example-building-giant-border-wall-illegal-immigrants.html (Reuters) - The Greek government has unveiled plans to construct a wall along its 128-mile land border with Turkey in order to tackle the influx of illegal immigrants. immigration Tue,4 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BU11O20101231 (Reuters) - Queues stretched for kilometers at immigration offices in South Africa on Friday as thousands of Zimbabweans tried to meet a year-end deadline to file papers for legalizing their stay in the country. immigration Fri,31 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/irish-influx-conservative-migration-pledge (Guardian) A new wave of Irish migration with as many as 120,000 leaving the Republic is likely to ensure that a significant drop in immigration to Britain is unlikely in 2011, according to a study published today. immigration Thu,30 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-28/more-states-seeking-to-follow-arizona-s-push-for-tougher-immigration-rules.html (Bloomberg) Lawmakers in US states moving to 'get tough' on illegal immigrants. immigration Tue,28 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/58695 (Scrips News) Six years after applying to sponsor her sister for emigration from the Philippines, Eunice Jones of Salt Lake County, Utah, was ecstatic to receive a letter last year saying the State Department finally approved her sister's eligibility. But that didn't mean Emerald Guerra, 39, could come anytime soon. immigration Tue,28 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/dec/27/middle-income-countries-bottom-billion (Guardian) A new approach to reducing poverty is needed in 2011 if people are not to be left behind while their countries get steadily richer. poverty Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/2010/12/killing_the_dream.html (Baltimore Sun) For all the remarkable accomplishments of the just-ended lame-duck Congress, one of its most notable disappointments was the defeat of the Dream Act for children of illegal immigrants. The measure would have given a path to citizenship to children who, through no fault of their own, were illegally brought into the country by their parents. immigration Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/12/2010122613366662630.html (Al Jazeera) More than 1,500 people have staged a rally in Moscow, Russia's capital, against a recent wave of ethnic unrest following the deadly shooting of a Russian football fan.. racism Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/dec/22/migrant-workers-remittances (Guardian)Saturday marked the unhappy 20th anniversary of the UN convention on the rights of migrants and their families. After two decades, only 44 countries are party to the convention, which remains one of the least ratified of the core human rights treaties. migrant workers Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/border-control-no-solution-for-global-problem-20101220-19336.html (SMH) For every body washed up on the shores of the developed world, experts estimate at least two others are never recovered. Nearly 14,000 men, women and children are known to have died from 1993 to 2010 trying to enter Europe, or during detention or forcible deportation. asylum seekers Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/stanhope-open-to-detention-centre/1992819.aspx (The Canberra Times) Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says he would welcome a new immigration detention centre being built in the ACT, as long as the community was onside. asylum seekers, detention Thu,11 Nov 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/27/swedish-xenophobia-malmo-shootings (The Guardian) Malmo's racially motivated shootings remind me of an earlier wounding to Swedish society. But this time they're no freak. non-citizens, immigrants, racism Fri,29 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Noncitizen-voting-effort-clouded-by-legal-questions-104257193.html (The Examiner - San Francisco) - Parents who are not U.S. citizens would be allowed to vote in school board elections if a measure on the November ballot is approved. non-citizens, right to vote, immigrants, education Wed,6 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/01/dutch-far-right-burqa-ban (Guardian - Brussels) - Geert Wilders's Freedom party has pivotal role supporting coalition committed to crackdown on immigration. asylum seeker, slavery, immigration Sat,2 Oct 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/8317,news-comment,news-politics,open-borders-would-abolish-slavery (First Post) - Letting 'illegal' immigrants work makes sense for humane and economic reasons, says Rahila Gupta. Modern slavery in Britain is an affront to all of us, yet a simple solution exists: the abolition of immigration controls. asylum seeker, slavery, immigration Sun, 27 Sep 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/new-protest-erupts-on-rooftop-of-sydneys-villawood-detention-centre/story-e6frf7l6-1225927836239 (HeraldSun) - ANOTHER protest is under way today at Sydney's Villawood detention centre, with nine Chinese detainees climbing on to a roof at the facility. The detainees this morning climbed onto the roof of stage 2 of the centre in Sydney's west, the same roof from which Fijian Josefa Rauluni jumped to his death on Monday." asylum seeker, death in detention Tue, 22 Sep 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/france-immigration.5wu (BRUSSELS) - France has breached laws of the European Union by deporting hundreds of Roma migrants from Romania and Bulgaria, the Socialist bloc of the European parliament said on Thursday." racism, immigration, detention, immigration, poverty Fri, 30 Aug 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp/7808038/curtin-rocked-by-detainee-death/ West Australian: "An asylum seeker has died after collapsing at re-opened Curtin detention centre in WA's north-west over the weekend." asylum seeker, death in detention Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10779151 BBC: "In some ways it's cheap vote-getting. There is this cycle of kind of nativist hysteria that is very profitable for politicians. Nothing gets votes like the politics of fear." immigration, human rights, racism Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/US-Judge-Blocks-Key-Parts-of-Arizona-Immigration-Law-99484044.html VOA: A U.S. judge Wednesday blocked controversial parts of an Arizona law aimed at curbing illegal immigration, one day before the law goes into effect. immigration, human rights, racism Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100703cc.html Japan Times Online: The ruling Democratic Party of Japan advocates the introduction of foreigner suffrage but faces strong opposition. right to vote Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201007050358.html Asahi: The point in question is whether to grant permanent foreign residents the right to vote in local elections. right to vote Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.hindu.com/mag/2010/07/25/stories/2010072550200400.htm The Hindu: Are hunger and starvation acceptable any longer? Despite the campaign for the Right to Food Act which pinpoints several criteria as basic needs, poverty is widespread. A severe moral deficit is an underlying factor, says PRAHALAD SINGH hunger, poverty Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.cis.org.au/images/stories/policy-magazine/2010_Autumn/26-1-10-chris-berg.pdf CIS: Classical liberals should support the free movement of people ... It seems a bit odd but when we talk about immigration, we rarely talk about how good it is for immigrants themselves. immigration Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.huffingtonpost.com/azeem-ibrahim/if-we-really-want-to-make_b_650563.html Huffington Post: In Zugu, a small village in Ghana, most of the children are hungry most of the time. poverty Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/14/1730673/what-would-jesus-do-about-illegal.html Miami Herald:Religious leaders and lawmakers traded Scripture passages Wednesday at a congressional hearing on whether there's an ethical imperative to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. immigration Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-va-immigration-state,0,4053138.story States should not follow Arizona's lead and enact strict new Immigration laws because ridding the country of illegal immigrants is the federal government's job, the director of the nation's Immigration enforcement agency said Tuesday. immigration Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog/fortress-australia-death-and-detention-statistics Since 2000 at least 909 asylum seekers and irregular entrants have lost their lives in attempting to enter Australia or while in detention. border death, death in detention Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog/archives/146 In a policy announcement echoing the discredited ‘Pacific solution’ of the previous Liberal Government, the new Australian government has decided to seek to detain asylum seekers in a ‘regional processing centre’ in East Timor. refugees, immigration Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog/archives/141 Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that everyone has the right to leave any country. Increasingly countries are cooperating to violate this human rights by preventing aslyum seekers and others from leaving a country to seek refuge in another country. immigration, foreignness Mon, 26 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/22/4545680-mexico-joins-ariz-lawsuit NBC NEWS: The government of Mexico today formally joined a lawsuit in federal court challenging Arizona's new immigration law. immigration, foreignness Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/02/14/anachronism-foreignness Columbia Spectator: Foreignness is a meaningless concept. It’s time that we accept that and dump the term into the dustbin of history. foreignness Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/human-rights/Childrens-Rights-Convention-70613757.html VOA: Nations are staging special events to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force on November 20, 1989. childrens rights, poverty, child death Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog/archives/126 In recent days Germans and those affected by the Cold War are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some 200 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall. On recent figures 13250 have died seeking to cross the “walls” surrounding Fortress Europe. refugees, immigration, open borders Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.theage.com.au/national/push-at-apec-to-open-up-borders-20091107-i2f6.html The Age: Business leaders call for placing people movements on political agenda and for open borders. workers, open borders Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091106a7.html Japan Times Online: Enacting laws to allow permanent foreign residents to vote in local-level elections may be difficult in the near future and more debate is needed to form a nonpartisan consensus in the Diet, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Thursday. foreigners, suffrage Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog Eleanor Roosevelt was the first Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Her work, with her colleagues, led to the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The following, according to her son, is a prayer that she said every night. racism, immigration, human rights Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog/archives/110 Some countries obsess about ‘who we are’. The obsession becomes more intense, the more people with different coloured skins, different accents, diffent cultures become part of day to day life. In an age of migration “we” can become very confusing. Who can “we” be, if quite obviously “us” includes “them”. racism, immigration, human rights Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abolishforeignness.org/blog/archives/95 Surely something as universally true as science could not have borders? Not in the twenty-first century. Not in the age of the internet. poverty, human rights Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/200908211847-pol-ren0057-immigrants_franceschini_xenophobia_and_racism_by_government Unfortunately the facts and statements show the truth of the tragedy of the deaths of the Eritreans at sea. It is no longer an issue of left or right, of different policies concerning illegal immigration. We are facing a tragedy which was predicted, caused by immoral and unjust laws contrary to international rights which have the effect of stopping rescue at sea. racism, immigration, human rights Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-18-voa50.cfm U.S. immigration officials say they have discovered the records of 10 previously unreported deaths of immigrants detained in U.S. custody since 2003. death in detention, human rights Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/22/2663668.htm?section=australia ABC News - "Minister for Immigration Chris Evans says the data-sharing arrangements will not affect privacy laws. "It's not being collected on Australian citizens, it's being collected on third country nationals," he said." immigration, human rights Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52O0VT20090325 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The detention of hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year in the United States represents a violation of human rights, Amnesty International USA said in a report on Wednesday. detention, human rights Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/nyregion/03detain.html (NY Times - Nina Bernstein) - Not until March 20, in response to a new request by The Times under the Freedom of Information Act, did the agency release an internal e-mail message acknowledging that the death had been overlooked. It issued a corrected list that now includes him — his first and last names transposed — among 90 people who died in immigration custody between Oct. 7, 2003, and Feb. 7, 2009. death in detention Mon, 4 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/02/f-vp-stewart.html (CBC News CA - Brian Stewart) - It says a great deal about the general instability of our age that the world can misplace entire crises in the shock of the latest alarms. hunger Mon, 4 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/opinion/7225-bringing-health-experts-to-the-barrios.html (Business Mirror) - Two perennial problems haunt and hurt the health-care system in the Philippines: its shortage of doctors, and the concentration of health professionals in urban areas. For a country that exports doctors and nurses, the Philippines suffers from a low 1:15,000 doctor-to-population ratio, more than double the ideal 1:6,000 and a far cry from the US ratio of 1:150. hunger Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EDIS-7PYLNR?OpenDocument (Relief Web) - Even as the world is transfixed by the global economic meltdown, it is faced with another, almost forgotten crisis, "a terrible tide of increasing hunger." hunger Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/09/america/NA-US-Immigration-Widows.php (AP) - SAN ANTONIO: At least 200 immigrants nationwide face deportation under what's become known as the "widow's penalty," a federal policy ordering widows and widowers out of the country if their U.S. citizen spouse dies before their immigration application is approved. immigration Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090126/NEWS/901260323/1001/news (BBC) - The head of the World Food Programme (WFP), Josette Sheeran, says the world may be reaching a point where the global system can no longer cope with the number of hungry people. hunger Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090126/NEWS/901260323/1001/news Laurel, US (AP) - For a long time, Howard workers were poor blacks and whites in this town of 18,000, where an estimated 30 percent of the population lives in poverty. But in the past few years, immigrants poured across the Mexican border, eagerly applying for work on the Howard line and not complaining about long hours or menial labor. immigration racism Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jF54s_oslzJMcV8N_Tgb7oL5ZLYgD95TARU05 Bangkok, Thailand (AP) - Thailand offered Saturday to host a regional conference to prevent the mass migration — and resulting suffering — of refugees after the Thai navy was accused of brutally mistreating boat people from Bangladesh. refugees Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28708851/ SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - Hundreds of people are missing and feared dead after boats carrying about 400 African migrants capsized Saturday near Yemen, a U.N. official said. border death Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE50E08120090115 London (REUTERS) - The human eye can help doctors understand how an acute form of malaria attacks the brain, researchers said on Wednesday, opening the way to new and better treatments for one of Africa's biggest killers. child death Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-15-voa34.cfm Johannesburg (VOA) - UNICEF's Annual State of the World's Children report 2009 The U.N. Children's Fund says in its latest annual report that half a million women die in childbirth and more than four million newborns are also lost each year, and that most of those deaths are preventable. maternal health Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12932296 (Economist) – The economic slump is battering migrants. For tens of millions of people working outside their homelands, life is becoming much more precarious. immigration Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28576996/ GENEVA (AP) – Europe should act against a growing animosity to African migrants by ensuring that people crossing the Mediterranean Sea to seek asylum can land and ask for protection, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday. refugees Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-immigreform9-2009jan09,0,1210894.story LOS ANGELES, (LA Times) – Pro-immigration groups say comprehensive reform would allow immigrants to bolster the nation's economic well-being. Opponents say legalization would further crowd an already dwindling job market. immigration Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/19/1681493.aspx ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MSNBC) – The story about the worsening economy in Pakistan can be seen in the plight of children at the Edhi Welfare Center in Karachi – it has meant more children being dropped off. poverty Thu, 23 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/12/europe/12europe.php PARIS: In the general European euphoria over the election of Barack Obama, there is the beginning of self-reflection about Europe's own troubles with racial integration. Many are asking if there could be a French, British, German or Italian Obama, and everyone knows the answer is no, not anytime soon. racism Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/19/italy-race-touadi-mafia Italy's only black MP has warned of growing racism after a surge in attacks on immigrants across the country. racism Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/11/12/egypt-end-shoot-stop-practice-sinai-border-crossings (Cairo) - Since June 2007, Egyptian border guards have killed at least 32 African migrants trying to cross into Israel. refugees Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27648042/ Instead of Western handouts, World Food Program buying local crops poverty Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org/blog/over-116-million-people-stand-up-against-poverty The Elders' Mary Robinson joined Anti-poverty campaigners yesterday, to announce an astounding 116 million people nearly two percent of the world's population mobilized at events in 131 countries on October 17-19 as part of Stand Up and Take Action. poverty Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27539416/ Historians discuss the significance of the Barak Obama victory as President elect of the United States for civil rights, the defeat of racism. James Grossman, Robert O. Self, Peniel E. Joseph,Vicki L. Ruiz, Renee Romano, Michael Honey racism Sun, 9 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49J4VZ20081020 Twenty million jobs will disappear by the end of next year as a result of the impact of the financial crisis on the global economy poverty Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49F5NC20081016 Food campaigners frustrated that world food hunger and starvation is being ignored while trillions found to bail out banks. Question global priorities. hunger Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT