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Trump Targets Latino Migrants – Ideology over Humanity

By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration. By John Perry and Roger D. Harris The importance…

I Went to See Superman As an Escape from Reality – Reality Was Still There

I am not going to pretend I know exactly what Director James Gunn’s intentions were with his recent adaptation of Superman, which was released in theaters last week. But I didn’t need the 72 feet wide and 50 feet tall…

Japan to Recruit One Lakh Bangladeshi Workers: An Opportunity or a Risk to Bilateral Trust?

In late May 2025, Tokyo announced that it would welcome one lakh (100,000) skilled workers from Bangladesh over the next five years. This initiative will be formalized through memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower, Employment, and…

Iran’s Mass Expulsion Of Afghans Poses A Dilemma For Many Of Its Supporters

Most of them are opposed to the expulsion of any illegal immigrants, yet self-censoring their criticism of Iran’s policy discredits their criticisms of Trump’s similar one, while acknowledging the “Weapons of Mass Migration” pretext upon which Iran’s policy is premised…

PPFA Slams Media for Propagating and Mystifying the Term  ‘Bengali-origin’

Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), a forum of nationalist citizens in northeast India,  while appreciating the State government for its decisive actions to regain thousands of encroached lands from the clutches of illegal settlers, has also emphasized on proper…

Trump’s Immigration Plan Is A Human And Economic Disaster

I understand the urgent need to reform our immigration policy to streamline the current chaotic and disjointed immigration laws. However, Trump’s approach to addressing migration will gravely affect the health of the economy, to which immigrants are indispensable.  Expelling hard-working…

Launch of the 2nd International Decade for People of African Descent in the Asia Pacific Region

How many African diaspora communities live in Asia and the Pacific region? An official UN document states that there are no official statistics available on the demography of people of African descent living in Asia and the Pacific region. However,…

SOS Humanity condemns end of search and rescue NGO-funding by German federal government

The managing director of SOS Humanity, Till Rummenhohl, comments on the discontinuation of financial support for civil search and rescue by the German Federal Foreign Office and the media reuse of a false claim made by today’s Foreign Minister Johann…

Greece: Court acquits 11 asylum seekers accused of human smuggling

A ruling destined to mark a turning point in European case law: the court on the island of Samos has acquitted 11 asylum seekers of charges related to facilitating irregular immigration. The accusations stemmed solely from the fact that they…

General Assembly on Administrative Detention: A Critical Debate in Milan

On 23–24 May, the Centro Internazionale di Quartiere (CIQ), an intercultural hub located in the Corvetto district in southeast Milan, hosted the fourth edition of the “General Assembly on Administrative Detention” (Stati Generali sulla Detenzione Amministativa). Organised by the Association…

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