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Australia Investigates Brawl Among Asylum Seekers in Camp
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 2 hours ago
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Australia's Immigration Department is investigating disturbances at its Christmas Island Detention Center. About 150 Afghan and Sri Lankan migrants have clashed there in recent days, leaving several people hurt. The remote processing facility houses more...
Tags: asylum seekers, Indonesia, Jakarta, Sri Lanka, Nauru detention centre, Pacific Solution, Immigration to Australia, Serco Group, Refugee, Social Issues, Population, Right of asylum, War Conflict, Demography, Forced migration
Germany Criticizes Decision to Build in Gilo
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 7 hours ago
Credibility IsraelNN.com) A spokesman for German chancellor Angela Merkel issued a statement on Monday, criticizing the decision to approve the building of 900 housing units in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
Tags: Germany, Israeli, Israel, Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gilo, Chancellors of Germany, Israeli Jews, Angela Merkel, Demography, Immigration, Population, Social Issues, Guido Westerwelle, Politics, Contract, Contract law, Deutsche Mark
Jobless rates soar for immigrants
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 13 hours ago
Credibility They come to refugee resettling agencies hoping to find any kind of lead. They listen closely to this country's interviewing tips—smile, maintain eye contact, give a firm handshake...But the harsh reality is that at a time when the unemployment rate is...
Tags: Cuba, Hollywood Youth Co-Op, Sandra Bernard, months ago, Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach, Haiti, social services, Los Angeles, Population, Refugee, West Palm Beach Florida, South Florida metropolitan area, Labor, Forced migration, Right of asylum, Demography, Social Issues
Africa: Cancer Deaths Surging As Lifestyles Change
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 1 day ago
Credibility Cancer Deaths Surging As Lifestyles Change Dagi Kimani 23 November 2009 Nairobi — When 700 cancer experts met recently in Dar es Salaam, few had illusions about the challenges facing them. Many were, however, still shocked by the facts that emerged from...
Tags: climate talks, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Cancer, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam Region, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Agriculture, Food, Famine, Population, Poverty, Disaster Accident, Environment
We can keep our leafy suburbs and still save the planet
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Blaming backyards and the low-density delusion is popular but wrong...In June, meteorologist David Karoly lamented that Australians ''aspire to individual homes with a backyard''; but the climate change challenge requires a ''move to higher-density living...
Tags: Melbourne, Los Angeles, sustainable transport, leafy suburbs, public transport, transport policy, Urban studies and planning, Population, Suburb, Urban sprawl, Demography, City, Social Issues, Environment
When a Woman's Body Becomes the Domain of the State, Part II
Beijing :: China | 1 day ago
Credibility Part I on this coverage of the Lantos Commission hearing dealt with the trauma of undergoing a forced abortion through the testimony of an anonymous victim of the procedure. Those of us who were present at this heart-wrenching account of a young woman...
Tags: China Aid Association, US State Department China, child policy, family plan, forced abort, Uyghur Population Subject, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Uyghurs, Rebiya Kadeer, Reid, China, Beijing, Demography, One-child policy, Compulsory sterilization, Family planning, Birth control, Population, Fertility, Social Issues
Supreme Court: No Private Jails in Israel
Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 day ago
Credibility IsraelNN.com) A nine-justice Supreme Court panel, led by Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch, ruled on Friday that the law mandating a privately-run prison in Israel must be revoked.
Tags: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Pro-Israel Canadians Strike Back, Israel, Jerusalem, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, Karmiel, Business Finance, Cott Corporation, Backpacking, Canada, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Politics, Beersheba, Dorit Beinisch, Arutz Sheva, Supreme Court of Israel, Law Crime, Brief, Disability, Educational psychology, Population, Social Issues, Bnei Brak, Kollel, Chabad, Tzipi Livni, Sexual harassment, Ze'ev, Likud, Israeli Jews, Sociology
UNFPA champions cause of women
Kingston :: Jamaica | 1 day ago
Credibility Sunday November 22, 2009 A family recieves family planning advice at Kivunge Hospital, Zanzibar...State of World Population Report 2009 , which was launched on Wednesday, November 18...Findings of the study, which are supported by World Bank data, show...
Tags: UNFPA Country Programme, climate change, Caribbean, Thorya Obiad, Jamaica, Kingston, Reproductive health, Family planning, Americans for UNFPA, Population, Demography, United Nations Population Fund, Environment, Social Issues
Bishop defends boat people question
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility The opposition's justice and customs spokeswoman Sussan Ley asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in parliament last week if 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were promised public housing assistance to induce them to leave the Australian Customs vessel, Oceanic...
Tags: asylum seekers, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Refugee, Right of asylum, Kevin Rudd, Rudd, Demography, Forced migration, Population, Politics
Are we there yet? ‘Cast Offs’ co-writer Jack Thorne on his new TV drama
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility I can accurately describe the first moment I felt like a disabled person...I'd been down for presents, but had suffered an attack and retreated to my room...Upstairs, I was lying on top of my bed with all the windows open; I was wearing a pair of boxers...
Tags: cast offs, tv showing, VHS, disability actors, United Kingdom, London, Disability, Educational psychology, Population, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues
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