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Fight The Deportation of School Teacher Farhan Zakaria

22-12-2008 15:52 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Farhan Zakaria, 28, who was teaching French and Bengali at Sarah Bonnell School in Stratford. Farhan and his family have been living in the UK for 12 years. Farhan went through secondary school, college, university and then became a qualified and highly respected school teacher. His whole life is made up of his study, experience, friends and family in the UK.

Church occupid by migrants in Zurich

20-12-2008 16:23 | Anti-racism | Migration | World

Today, Friday the 19th of December 2008, around 150 Sans-Papiers (immigrants and refugees without residence authorisation) and Swiss activists occupied the Prediger Church in Zurich. Exactly one year ago we occupied symbolically the cathedral Grossmünster to protest against the tightening of the law of asylum and the aliens legislation (Asyl- und Ausländergesetz). One year later we are outraged that the agency for migration in Zurich still keeps its inhuman and unreasonable migration policies.

Arrived Tinsley house

15-12-2008 15:29 | Migration | World

wrexham family snatched

Britain's Youngest Prisoners - Christmas Appeal 2008

No Children in Detention this Festive Season

Dear Home Secretary as a Campaigner for Britain's Youngest Prisoners, I know that our paths are bound to cross from to time, but I should hope that at this time of the year we can put our differences aside and call a truce, on behalf of those foreign national children who are unwanted by the UK and that you intend to deport. I am appealing to you directly for a moratorium on the detention/deportation of foreign national children and their families until the new year and that there should be no children in detention this Christmas.

Notts' Mayor Xmas fund for twin city Harare

13-12-2008 12:11 | Culture | Migration | Social Struggles | World

A SIZEABLE number of people turned out for the Nottingham Mayor Christmas Cheer fund, earlier Regis Manyanya had interviews with various radio stations. The message was clear and straight forward Zimbabwe is in dire need of aid.

In Age of Migration, Human Rights Declaration Falls Short

11-12-2008 19:40 | Anti-racism | Free Spaces | Migration | World

New America Media, Commentary, Joseph Nevins, Posted: Dec 10, 2008
Editor’s Note: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights actually has helped legitimate the right of countries to regulate immigration. This is because the declaration, written before the age of mass migration, protects the right of exit from a country but does not affirm a right of entry. Joseph Nevins is an associate professor of geography at Vassar College. His latest book is "Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid" (City Lights Books, 2008). IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of immigrant rights advocates.

Ayodeji Omotade V British Airways

"What would you do if someone on your flight was distressed and crying out for help? Would you stay silent or would you speak? I spoke and BA didn't like it. This type of corporate tyranny must be challenged and stopped." Ayodeji Omotade

Businessman calls for UK lockdown

30-11-2008 19:18 | Analysis | Migration | Repression | World

In a BBC interview, ready-meal millionaire Sir Gulam Noon makes several misguided and misleading comments regarding immigration to the UK and its relationship to racism. The comments are reportedly echoed in his as yet unreleased autobiography

Chania Migrants on Hunger Strike - Summary of events 20 - 25 November

26-11-2008 19:28 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | World

16 DAYS (and counting…) OF HUNGER STRIKE…A LIFE OF STRUGGLE…

ID 'reading' machines on Canada and Mexico borders

24-11-2008 22:16 | Bio-technology | Migration | Repression | World

USA Today reports that border guards along Mexico/US and Canada/US borders have begun use of machines that can remotely read biometric chips in ID cards of travellers.

G20 leaders told to back off by Filipino workers

Filipino Workers to heads of G20: Creating a better world order is no more your business

WTO Chief Says Free Trade Plays Small Role in Job Losses: A Critical View

13-11-2008 02:50 | Analysis | Globalisation | Migration | World

Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization, argues that free trade in a regulated environment drives economic growth worldwide. Speaking at Stanford University, he dismissed claims that free trade is responsible for job losses. Yet in every case where trade barriers have been dropped between structurally dissimilar economies, free trade has introduced profound socio-economic distortions, income inequality, and job displacement.

Deportation to Afghanistan from London and Paris

09-11-2008 22:19 | Migration | Terror War | World

Is there anybody having some onformations about a charter departing from London and going to Paris, then to Kabul?

Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

02-11-2008 00:57 | Globalisation | Migration | Workers' Movements | World

MANILA, Philippines – The country should not take pride in being the model in terms of labor migration, according to women’s groups who are engaging the Second Global Forum on Migration on Development (GFMD).

Filipino Workers hold March to protest against the GFMD

30-10-2008 23:25 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

As the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) opened today in Manila, at least 5000 workers from the Philippines and other countries in every region of the world came together in one of the broadest labor mobilizations ever organized in the entire history of the global trade union movement.

Videos of Sandholm Detention Centre Action, Copenhagen 25/10

28-10-2008 13:35 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Photos and videos of the direct action march and assault on the Sandholm detention centre in Copenhagen by an estimated 1500 - 2000 people on Sat 25th Oct 2008.

70 activist close down deportation centre in Vottem (belgium)

27-10-2008 10:48 | Migration | Social Struggles | World

On saterday Oct 25th 2008 about 70 activists locked themselves to the gates of the closed deportation center for refugees in Vottem (Luik, Belgium). The action was held in solidarity with the emprisonned undocumented migrants, and was linked to similar refugee rigths actions in Denmark and Holland

World Migration Newswire Archive

Fight The Deportation of School Teacher Farhan Zakaria

Church occupid by migrants in Zurich

Arrived Tinsley house

Britain's Youngest Prisoners - Christmas Appeal 2008

Notts' Mayor Xmas fund for twin city Harare

In Age of Migration, Human Rights Declaration Falls Short

Ayodeji Omotade V British Airways

Businessman calls for UK lockdown

Chania Migrants on Hunger Strike - Summary of events 20 - 25 November

ID 'reading' machines on Canada and Mexico borders

G20 leaders told to back off by Filipino workers

WTO Chief Says Free Trade Plays Small Role in Job Losses: A Critical View

Deportation to Afghanistan from London and Paris

Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

Filipino Workers hold March to protest against the GFMD

Videos of Sandholm Detention Centre Action, Copenhagen 25/10

70 activist close down deportation centre in Vottem (belgium)

Amey Cleaner Solidarity Picket

Chagos Ethnic Cleansing; No Right to Return: Implementation of International Law

New short film from South Lebanon

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