Daily Archives: December 18, 2020

2020-12-18: News Headlines

news.un (2020-12-18). Integral to societies, migrants are central to COVID-19 recovery: Guterres. news.un.org The UN marks International Migrants Day on Friday, highlighting their essential contribution to societies everywhere, and underlining migrants' central role in recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

teleSUR (2020-12-17). Mexico Will Increase Its Minimum Wage by 15% Starting January. telesurenglish.net The Mexican government announced an increase of 15 percent in the daily minimum wage for Mexican workers beginning January to reach the equivalent of about $7 a day. The new wage will still fall below $1 an hour but is well above the country's current 3.3 percent inflation rate. Minimum wages in the northern part of the country, where the cost of living is higher than in southern regions, will also rise 15 percent to about $10.70 a day. | RELATED: | ILO Praises Mexico for Labor Reforms Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic | President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday the business sector had rejected the 15 pe…

Lorena Ríos (2020-12-17). Women in Mexico Reckon With the High Cost of Migration. thenation.com Women in Mexico Reckon With the High Cost of Migration…

Mehr News Agency (2020-12-16). VIDEO: SA holding migrants in inhuman conditions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) — Human Rights Watch has released footage of a detention center for foreigners in Riyadh, proving that Saudi officials have detained and tortured hundreds of foreign workers. As reported, three have lost lives by the present.

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2020-12-16). Civil Rights Groups Urge Biden to Nominate Attorney General Dedicated to 'Bedrock Principle of Equal Justice'. commondreams.org "We need an attorney general… committed to ending discrimination; addressing white supremacy and hate violence; and advancing racial, gender, disability, ethnic, religious, immigrant, and LGBTQ justice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/black_lives_matter_solidarity.png

commondreams (2020-12-16). Immigrant Rights Attorneys Sue DHS and ICE for Information on Terror Tactics Used in Arrests. commondreams.org ______________________________…

MEE and agencies (2020-12-16). Bodies of four children wash up on Libyan coast: Red Crescent. middleeasteye.net Bodies of four children wash up on Libyan coast: Red Crescent | Blankets, including those for baby, lay on rocks near where bodies were found | Wed, 12/16/2020 – 21: 32 | Member of Libyan Red Crescent checks blankets in which bodies of drowned migrant children were wrapped on 16 December (AFP) | The Libyan Red Crescent said the bodies of four children aged between five and 10 had washed as…

WSWS (2020-12-15). 15-year-old is assassinated while being treated in hospital in Mexico as homicides reach record levels. wsws.org Local, state, and federal authorities have demonstrated a complete indifference to the terrible conditions of the working class, exacerbated by the raging COVID-19 pandemic.