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ID on demand ruled unconstitutional
MARY CAROLAN and JAMIE SMYTH A PROVISION of the Immigration Act forcing non-Irish nationals to produce ID on demand to a garda or face a criminal conviction has been ruled “unconstitutional” by the High Court. Immigrant groups welcomed the landmark judgment, which they said would…
Author: Irish Times
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Non-EU parents of citizens entitled to residency, court rules
by Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Editor IN A ruling with major implications for Irish policy, the European Court of Justice has ruled that the non-EU parents of an EU citizen child must be allowed to live and work in that EU state. Until 2005 all…
Author: The Irish Times
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'Bridging visa' plan for certain immigrants
Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is an Atlantic grantee.by RUADHÁN MacCORMAIC, Migration CorrespondentMinister for Justice Dermot Ahern yesterday confirmed that foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area who have become undocumented through no fault of their own would soon be eligible to apply for a…
Author: Irish Times
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Zimbabweans get visa-free SA entry
Original Source The University of the Witwatersrand’s Forced Migration Studies Programme is an Atlantic grantee. WILSON JOHWA, Political Correspondent SA is to drop the visa requirement for Zimbabwean passport holders while also granting them special residency permits allowing them to work in the country. Home Affairs Minister…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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Why TAC is taking govt to court over refugees
Original Source CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – Government inaction in the face of deteriorating living conditions in camps for displaced foreign nationals has forced refugees to take legal steps against the state, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Wednesday. Briefing the media in Cape…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa)
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Strengthen grassroots press at community Ground Zero
Original Source By Graeme Addison CRITICISM has been levelled at sections of the press – notably the Daily Sun and Sapa – for racially tinged reporting that allegedly fanned the fires of xenophobia. The accusation rests on the semantic bias of terms such as aliens…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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Kevin Rudd says Vietnam important partner of Australia
By Mong Binh. HCMC – Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said Vietnam was becoming one of Australia’s most important partners in Asia-Pacific given this ASEAN nation’s increasing role in the region and its growth. Rudd was speaking to over 200 people including government and corporate…
Author: The Saigon Times
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Xenophobic violence last May organised by community leaders, says researcher
JOHANNESBURG: The xenophobic violence last May was organised by “community leaders”, a university researcher said yesterday. “The community leaders – the street committees, the comrades, the CPF (Community Policing Forum) as they are called – are involved. “They were the ones who were organising the…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Rules favour informalisation, corruption
by CHRISTINA TAYLOR SOUTH AFRICA can gain from offering more resources and legitimacy to immigrants, academics suggest, but the country’s citizens meanwhile suffer from restrictions on the rights of foreign nationals. According to a draft submission by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University to the…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Camps for displaced foreigners 'inhumane'
Original Source By Chelsea Laun Foreign nationals displaced by xenophobic violence two months ago are still enduring inhumane living conditions and basic human rights violations in Western Cape refugee camps, say two reports by the South African Human Rights Commission and the Joint Refugee Leadership…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)