Emile Schepers

Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. Born in South Africa, 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 a number of other issues. He writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

U.S.

Rights groups sue feds over immigrant families
August 25, 2014 By Emile Schepers
"What we are seeing in Artesia is nothing less than a sham process that values expediency over justice".
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World

Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment
August 22, 2014 By Emile Schepers
These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.
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World

Ukraine: Cracks appear in Kiev coalition
August 20, 2014 By Emile Schepers
Troops of the government of President Victor Poroshenko push closer to Lubansk and Donetsk, and casualties rise in disaffected Eastern Ukraine.
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World

Argentina takes U.S. to World Court
August 14, 2014 By Emile Schepers
Argentina has taken the United States to the International Court of Justice in the Hague over a U.S. federal judge's actions in a dispute about bond payments.
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World

Africa conference pushes corporate interests
August 7, 2014 By Emile Schepers
Although we read that Africa is making great strides, most of its countries, particularly those South of the Sahara, are still at the bottom of any measures of human wellbeing.
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U.S.

The child migrant crisis: latest developments
August 5, 2014 By Emile Schepers
The "crisis" appears to be shrinking: 85 percent of the 57,000 child migrants have now been placed with parents, other family members or sponsors living in the United States.
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World

Fighting intensifies in Eastern Ukraine as Kiev acts against Communist Party
August 4, 2014 By Emile Schepers
The crisis in Eastern Ukraine is coming to a head, with intensified fighting and mounting casualties, including many civilians.
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World

Judicial finding in Chile says U.S. complicit in death of young Americans
July 25, 2014 By Emile Schepers
A U.S. military officer practically delivered the two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, to the military dictatorship of Pinochet, who had both of them executed.
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