Immigration Solutions; USCIS to accept employment-based adjustment applications.
Byline: Robert L. Reeves In a stunning and welcoming turn from its recent position, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday that it will now accept employment-based applications to adjust status for immigrants whose priority dates are current under the July 2007 visa bulletin up...

Who's Watching What in Washington?
The Project on the State of the American Newspaper recently surveyed newspaper coverage of 19 federal departments and agencies, most of which exert an influence on everyday life. The goal was to see which papers, major bureaus and general-news wire services still assign reporters full time, or nearly so...

Limitations of a charter of rights in the age of counter-terrorism.
[A central claim made by Australian proponents of a charter of rights like the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) ('Victorian Charter) is that it will improve the protection of human rights in the field of counter-terrorism. This article provides a critique of this claim by...

US Embassy here holds visa processing for skilled workers.
Byline: DAVID CAGAHASTIAN The United States Embassy in Manila yesterday announced that it will put off indefinitely the processing of visa applications of Filipino skilled workers to the US since the US has already exceeded the quota for issued visas to Filipinos. The US Embassy,...

African armed forces and the challenges of security sector transformation.
ABSTRACT The wave of democratisation that has occurred in many African countries has also had direct and profound implications for the manner in which the security sector in general, and the armed forces in particular, are transformed. Transformation, if correctly pursued, is an ambitious undertaking which impacts...

The Rejected Testimony (Part 2). (Dossier).
We continue with Uwe Freisecke's testimony that was rejected by the arusha-based UN tribunal for Rwanda. The presiding judge, Lloyd George Williams of St Kitts and Nevis, said it was "irrelevant and inadmissible". But was it? Please read on... Initially, the RPF invasion suffered a serious defeat...

Institutional arrangements to counter human trafficking in the Asia Pacific.
Introduction As globalization has taken hold, an increasing number of people have begun to move across national borders: to live, to work, or for pleasure. Within regions this process is intensified as shorter distances, lower costs and cultural affinities act as positive pressures on directing transnational population...

Pasdaran power: the US Congress brands Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist organisation as it tightens its grip on the Islamic Republic's economy and builds political muscle.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS THE BUSH administration sinks deeper into the Iraqi quagmire, it has said it plans to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Praetorian Guard of the clerical regime in Tehran, a terrorist organisation because of its alleged support for insurgents and Shi'ite militias...

A Chilean example.
"Sign no new loans and make no more commitments. Retain Chile in Eximbank's Group D [worst risk] category, requiring all decisions to be made in Washington and raising fees on guarantees ... Examine each Chilean request to international financial institutions on its merits and in the context of the...

The politics of a divided party and Parkinson's State in Vietnam.
********** The two most important domestic political events in Vietnam in 2001, the Ninth Party National Congress and the Central Highlands unrest, reveal to observers a divided Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), and a Parkinson's diseased state. Political struggle among the leadership has bred incohesiveness within the VCP...