Emile Schepers

Born in South Africa, Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. He has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University. He is active in the struggle for immigrant rights, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, and several other issues. He writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

U.S.

Arriving without their parents: Child refugees being warehoused on the U.S. border
June 19, 2014 By Emile Schepers
Thousands of unaccompanied child refugees from Central America, making their way through Mexico and into the U.S., are ending up in locked, fenced warehouses in Texas and Arizona.
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World

European Parliament elections reflect loss of confidence in European Union
June 5, 2014 By Emile Schepers
During the week ending on May 25, voters in the 28 countries of the European Union voted for members of the 766-member European Parliament.
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World

#Bring our girls home
May 9, 2014 By Emile Schepers
A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.
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World

Demand investigation of murder of progressive Cuban-American in 1978
May 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers
Demands are being raised for a government investigation of the murder of a progressive young Cuban immigrant in Puerto Rico on April 28, 1979.
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World

Ruling party ousted in Panama elections
May 5, 2014 By Emile Schepers
On Sunday, voters in Panama upset the predictions of pollsters by electing dissident Vice President Juan Carlos Varela, of the Panameñista Party, as their new president.
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U.S.

Dreamers in Virginia can pay instate tuition
April 30, 2014 By Emile Schepers
Immigrants' rights advocates are hailing a ruling that means students who are accepted by the federal DACA program can pay instate tuition to attend state colleges and universities.
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World

Tensions high in Ukraine in spite of agreement
April 22, 2014 By Emile Schepers
The problem is that there was no involvement of disaffected elements from primarily Russian-speaking communities in Eastern Ukraine in the talks that led to the announcement.
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World

As crisis builds, Ukrainians face May 25 election
April 21, 2014 By Greg Rose And Emile Schepers
This election is largely a contest of powerful business tycoons who made their fortunes out of the breakup of the old Soviet Union and the privatization of state enterprises that followed.
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