Posted by admin on Feb 16th, 2011
by Ben Sichel, Halifax Media Co-op, February 16, 2011
HALIFAX – A local family of five facing deportation to Pakistan will have to wait a little bit longer to learn its fate. Fakhira Chaudhry and Chaudhry Roouf Ahmad listened from the front row of a Federal Court of Appeal packed with supporters to arguments on whether they and their three children would be allowed to stay in Canada, but at the end of the 3-hour hearing Justice Robert Barnes reserved judgment in order to further examine evidence.
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Posted by admin on Feb 4th, 2011
By Apostolis Fotiadis, IPS, Feb. 4 2011
A hunger strike by migrants is emerging as a test case for how far migrants can go to fight for rights, and how far the government can go to clamp down on them. On Jan. 25, about 200 immigrants living in Greece entered a faculty building at Athens University Law School and declared that they would hunger strike until their demands were met. The strike shows no signs of coming to an end, but Greek authorities are not sitting idly by.
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Posted by admin on Feb 2nd, 2011
CBC News, Feb. 2, 2011
After 12 years, Kenyan Steve Onyango has been told he’s no longer welcome in Canada, after his wife, and sponsor, died three years ago. Onyango owns a home in Windsor and works as a parking enforcement officer, yet he may have to leave the life he’s built if government officials get their way.
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Posted by admin on Feb 2nd, 2011
CBC News, February 1, 2011
Victor Morales, a street musician in Montreal, was scheduled to be removed from Canada on Feb. 8, but the federal court has granted him a stay.Victor Morales, a street musician in Montreal, was scheduled to be removed from Canada on Feb. 8, but the federal court has granted him a stay. (CBC)A Montreal busker facing deportation to his native Chile has been granted a reprieve.
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Posted by admin on Feb 1st, 2011
By Emilio Godoy, IPS, Feb 1, 2011
MEXICO CITY – Although Central American migrants continue to face all kinds of abuses and even death on their way north through Mexico to the U.S. border, experts and activists have begun to see a slight change in approach to the issue. “The changes consist of a new attitude towards Mexico in Central America, which has prompted the Mexican government to react,” Leticia Calderón, a professor at the public ‘Doctor José MarÃa LuÃs Mora’ Research Institute, told IPS. “In addition, local authorities are reacting to the new demands.”
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