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Migrant rights advocate held in Tunisia under anti-terrorist investigation

Rights group says Abdallah Said’s case is a troubling first for the country amid president’s increasing crackdown. Tunisian anti-terrorist investigators are handling the case of a leading advocate ...

World - The Guardian - 6 hours ago

Europe's human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum

A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog is urging the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers who have for months been ...

World - ABC News - October 30

Immigration advocates brace for Trump: 'Buckle up'

Immigration advocates are bracing for Trump 2.0, whose pledge of mass deportation is sending waves of panic and anger throughout the movement. Even before President-elect Trump’s resounding victory ...

Politics - The Hill - November 10

Immigrant advocates to Biden: 'Meet the urgency of the moment'

A coalition of 138 immigrant, civil and human rights groups is calling on President Biden to take executive action to protect certain vulnerable immigrants from President-elect Trump’s pledge of ...

Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago

Black women face a maternal health crisis, and advocates want that to be an election issue

Advocates want the Nov. 5 election to help raise awareness about reproductive health inequities impacting Black women.

ServiceNow advocates for ‘invisible’ AI agents to ease worker adoption

ServiceNow vice president of AI Dorit Zilbershot believes employees will be more accepting of AI agents when they don't even know they're using AI agents.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 25

Mississippi legislative leaders advocate Medicaid expansion, heading to conflict with the governor

Mississippi’s Republican legislative leaders say they plan to push for Medicaid expansion to cover working people who earn to little to afford private insurance

Health - ABC News - October 31

Murray Sinclair, First Nation advocate for justice and Canadian senator, has died

World - Yahoo News - November 4

Murray Sinclair, First Nation advocate for justice and Canadian senator, has died

Murray Sinclair, a former First Nation judge, senator and chair of the commission that delved into Canada’s troubled history of residential schools for First Nations students, has died

World - ABC News - November 4

Elon Musk worries free speech advocates with calls to prosecute researchers and critics

First Amendment advocates are concerned that Musk could use his sway as a Trump adviser to retaliate against a long list of enemies.

Politics - NBC News - 6 days ago

Advocates call on Congress to reauthorize radiation compensation law in lame-duck session

A coalition of advocates and stakeholders called on Congress to take action in the lame-duck session to reauthorize the law compensating Americans exposed to nuclear radiation by the federal ...

Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago

Democratic Latino groups wrestle with Trump's election gains

A group of Democratic-leaning advocates say their polling shows that Trump did not win a majority of Latino men and that Latinos still support progressive policies.

Politics - NBC News - 3 days ago

A ‘gut punch’: Trump’s alleged sexual assault victims and their advocates on his win

Trump’s alleged victims, as well as other victims of sexual abuse, voice disappointment that he was elected again. When Donald Trump was elected to a second term last week, women who say he ...

World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

Trump's win puts migrants on edge

Trump's promises of mass deportation and tougher border policies appealed to many American voters. But his election has also caused fear and uncertainty among migrants desperate to enter the U.S.

Thousands of migrants leave southern Mexico for the U.S.

A group of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico's southern border Sunday in hopes of ultimately reaching the United States.

Three dead after migrant boat sinks in Channel

Forty-five people have been rescued with a search operation ongoing, maritime authorities said.

Man, 26, dies at UK migrant removal centre

Security firm Serco said a 26-year-old man died at the West Sussex detention facility on Sunday.

A Minnesota Town Transformed by Migrants Fights Political Rancor

Immigration is a divisive issue in this election, but diversity is reviving this particular community.

Business - Inc. - October 31

How migrant children are using soccer to connect

Immigration is ranked as one of the top issues for voters in the 2024 presidential election. Since spring 2022, New York City has taken in more than 200,000 asylum seekers, primarily families with ...

Migrants stranded on Diego Garcia offered move to UK

Around 60 Tamils struck on the secretive military island are to be brought to the UK.

Migrants anxiously monitoring U.S. election outcome

Immigration is one of the leading issues in the 2024 presidential race. The outcome of the election could dramatically change U.S. border policy, and impact thousands of migrants hoping to enter ...

Fifty-one migrants rescued from Channel

The boat’s engine failed off the coast of northern France overnight on Monday into Tuesday.

Meloni launches renewed effort to detain migrants in Albania

Arrival of asylum seekers from Egypt and Bangladesh will test Italian government’s deal with Tirana

Business - Financial Times - November 8

NYC to end debit card program for migrant families

New York City will end a pilot program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families to help them buy food. New York City launched the program earlier this year. It allowed migrant families to ...

Politics - The Hill - November 8

One of 8 migrants sent to Albania returned to Italy

World - Yahoo News - November 9

Turkish man accused of being major supplier of Channel smuggling boats arrested

The man was held in Amsterdam after an operation by the National Crime Agency and Dutch and Belgian police.

The Middlemen Linking Migrants in the U.S. to Your Shopping Cart

The incoming Trump administration promises an immigration crackdown. But for years, the on-demand economy has been fueled by unscrupulous staffing agencies exploiting migrant workers.

Business - The New York Times - 1 hour ago

Advocates say gun violence still a big issue despite flurry of election topics

Attention paid to gun violence prevention has had to compete and, at times, has been overshadowed by other hot-button campaign topics.

Trump says he would let anti-vaccine advocate RFK Jr. 'go wild on health'

During a rally appearance in New York City, former President Donald Trump said that if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "go wild" on public health issues.

Politics - NBC News - October 28

A first-time NYC marathon runner's special race goal: Advocate for gun violence prevention

Trevon Bosley will be one of 50,000 people at the starting line of the TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday.

Many parents voted for Trump. His top priority should be expanding the child tax credit, advocates say.

Parents — specifically, male parents — voted for President-elect Donald Trump this election cycle in an ongoing show of support for the Republican Party by voters with children, according to exit ...

Business - MarketWatch - November 7

How advocates predict Trump's 2024 win could impact gun violence prevention laws

ABC News follows gun violence survivor Drew Spiegel and Rep. Maxwell Frost as they push for stricter gun laws.

‘A total waste of time’: why Papua New Guinea pulled out of Cop29 and why climate advocates are worried

Country’s foreign minister says UN climate summits have produced ‘no results’ as Pacific nation takes the rare step of withdrawing from upcoming Cop29. Papua New Guinea’s decision to pull out of an ...

World - The Guardian - November 8

Anti-abortion advocates press Trump for more restrictions as abortion pill sales spike

Anti-abortion advocates say they will quickly dismantle some of President Joe Biden's abortion policies once President-elect Donald Trump makes his return to the White House next year

Health - ABC News - November 9

‘We’re a fierce advocate and a wise friend’: Here’s what AARP’s new CEO will do for its 38 million members.

Social Security, caregiving, health and advocacy are at the top of her list.

Business - MarketWatch - 2 days ago

The Conservatives’ deepening turn to the right

Kemi Badenoch’s task is to restore the party’s appeal to Britain at large

Business - Financial Times - November 3

The ‘north Cyprus trap’: migrant students lured with false promises

Government in the south condemns people-smuggling into EU from Turkish-occupied zone

World - Financial Times - October 20

A group of 2,000 migrants in southern Mexico depart for the US weeks before election

A group of about 2,000 migrants has left Mexico’s southern border hoping to reach the country’s north and ultimately the United States

World - ABC News - October 20

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