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Workers’ remittances witness rise of 6.35pc

April 11, 2013 17:06
Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $10,353.92 million in the first nine months July - March of the current fiscal year 201213 FY13, showing a growth of 6.35 percent or $617.95 million when compared with $9,735.97 million received during the same period of last fiscal year July March FY12, said State Bank of Pakistan SBP here Wednesday. The inflow of remittances in July March FY13 from Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, GCC countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman, and EU countries amounted to $2,979.31 million, $2,085.94 million, $1,636.66 million, $1,434.97 millio

Employers eager for new foreign worker program

April 11, 2013 15:05
U.S. employers struggling to fill certain jobs - washing dishes, cleaning hotels, caring for the elderly - could soon get help now that business groups and labor unions have agreed on a plan to allow thousands of new low-skilled foreign workers into the workforce. The deal still needs final agreement from lawmakers. It's one of the last major hurdles to completing immigration overhaul legislation. The broader measure would address the status of the 11 million immigrants who either arrived in the U.S.

Workers’ remittances witness rise of 6.35pc

April 11, 2013 09:32
Overseas Pakistani workers remitted an amount of $10,353.92 million in the first nine months July - March of the current fiscal year 201213 FY13, showing a growth of 6.35 percent or $617.95 million when compared with $9,735.97 million received during the same period of last fiscal year July March FY12, said State Bank of Pakistan SBP here Wednesday. The inflow of remittances in July March FY13 from Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, GCC countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman, and EU countries amounted to $2,979.31 million, $2,085.94 million, $1,636.66 million, $1,434.97 million

Tens of thousands of immigrants call for immigration reform at Capitol

April 10, 2013 20:45
Washington, Apr 10 (EFE).- Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered before the Capitol here on Wednesday under a hot sun to demand comprehensive immigration reform that opens a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Shouting "Llego la hora" (the time has come), immigrants from all over the United States, but mostly Latin Americans, demonstrated before the Capitol on a day organizers called "historic" in the fight for immigrants' rights in this country.

The peasant woman and the dreamer, a story of the border

April 10, 2013 18:16
Los Angeles, Apr 10 (EFE).- Odilia Chavez crossed the U.S.-Mexican border secretly so many times that she could have left her job and become a "coyote," as people smugglers are known, but neither she nor her son - also undocumented - wanted to live on the margins of the law. Hers is one more case among those who come up against the foundering immigration system in the United States, where 11 million people live without papers.

Syrian refugees to double or triple by end of 2013 -- UNHCR

April 10, 2013 17:02
The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries could double or triple amid the huge funding shortfall which pushes the aid operations in the country to the breaking point, warned a senior official with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday.To date, there are 1.3 million Syrian refugees registered or with appointments with UNHCR having fled to neighboring countries, with three-quarters as women and children, said Panos Moumtzis, Syria Regional Refugee Coordinator of UNHCR.The aid official said that it was a significant increase compared to o

Indonesian navy detains 71 illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Iraq

April 10, 2013 16:48
The Indonesian navy has caught a boat load with 71 illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Iraq in South Sulawesi. Patrolling navy ship caught the motorboat on Monday night in the sea off the Sinjay regency on its way to Australia, regional navy spokesman Mayor Darmawangsa said. The boat, KM Andri, was believed to have loaded the illegal immigrants at the Sinjay river mouth, Darmawangsa said in a press release issued here on Tuesday. The skipper of KM Andri Conna and three crewmen were arrested as they could not show legal documents.

KSA suspends crackdown on undocumented foreign workers

April 10, 2013 13:18
No less than the King Abdullah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has ordered the kingdom’s Ministries of Interior and Labor to give undocumented workers in the country three months to correct their work and residency status. Citing the report of the Labor Attache to Al-Khobar Adam Musa and Labor Attache to Jeddah Alejandro Padaen, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said that the three month period should be used by the employers of the undocumented workers to legalize their stay by acquiring Iqama and residency permit for them. “This is a welcome devel

600,000 'tricked and trapped' into labour in Mideast

April 9, 2013 08:00
An estimated 600,000 people are "tricked and trapped" into both forced employment and sexual exploitation in the Middle East, the UN's labour agency said on Tuesday. The International Labour Organisation, issuing the findings of a two-year study based on 650 interviews, called for an overhaul of employment practices in the region, notably an end to the "kafala" system of sponsorships.

Mexican friar defies gangs to help migrants

April 8, 2013 23:01
In a brown friar's robe and sandals, Tomas Gonzalez doesn't look like a death threat-defying, government-challenging, hardcore migrants' rights activist. But appearances can be deceptive. "Everything that has been done to migrants in this country is because Mexican authorities have given permission for it to be done," Gonzalez told migrants near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala as he warned bluntly of abuses and human trafficking that often turn fatal.
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