Stalker's guide to international migration

Below are some of the latest international news stories on migration and refugees, taken from Inter Press Service. If you click on the titles you will be taken to the full story on the IPS site. To return to this guide, please use the 'back' button on your browser.

UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
If the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.

The Ancient Wither in New Iraq
"I'd say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish." Anxiety about the future of his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid, chairman of Basra's Mandaean Council.

SWITZERLAND: Resistance Rises to Asylum Seekers
Switzerland saw a 45 percent increase in asylum requests compared in 2011 to the year before. The country struggles to accommodate the new asylum seekers while efforts to put up new centres face fierce resistance by local people.

SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict
In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor county that killed her mother and sisters.

MEXICO: Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future
The year 2012 started off with little promise for workers in Mexico, with analysts projecting job losses and wages below subsistence levels.

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