By JT – Nov 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury attends the 31st session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul last week (Photo courtesy of Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation ) […]
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on November 22, 2015 A range of new restrictions against the movement of refugees and migrants from Greece through the Western Balkans and further northwards is increasingly untenable, the UN refugee agency, the International Organisation for Migration and the UN children’s fund said […]
Photo by Caroline Brady of Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner in Dublin NASIR: WHY SO MANY PAKISTANIS ARE HEADED TO IRELAND AND ELSEWHERE NASIR JAMALNOVEMBER 17, 2015 Applications by Pakistani asylum seekers to Ireland have jumped eightfold so far this year, the Irish Timesreported earlier this month. What is […]
SEEKING ASYLUM Afghan family finds shelter in Swiss farmhouse By Gaby Ochsenbein in Hinterkappelen, Bern NOV 20, 2015 – 11:00 The Sajadi family in their bed-/living room at the Hinterkappelen asylum centre (swissinfo.ch) Growing numbers of Afghans are coming to Switzerland, most of them via the Balkans – including the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein, is the Post’s religion reporter, where she reports on the busy marketplace of American religion. Christians make up a tiny percentage of the Syrian refugees […]
Salon: Know what it says on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? Along with hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers, I see her almost every day during my daily commute, while the Q train crosses the Manhattan Bridge. If I remember to look up from my phone, that […]
Jewish children with no home and, soon, no parents, were not really welcome in the United States during World War II Petula Dvorak THE INDEPENDENT Our nation of immigrants has […]
Source: The Local German chancellor Angela Merkel with Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer on Friday. Photo: In her speech minutes earlier to her CSU sister party, Merkel had again insisted that the top EU economy can and will shelter people in need and that “isolation and inaction are no solution in […]
By Melanie Amann, Horand Knaup, Ralf Neukirch and René Pfister Der Spiegel In early September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued an order to bring thousands of refugees who were stranded in Hungary to Germany. Germany’s basic right to asylum has no upper limits, she said. It was a moment of […]
REFUGEES Europe anti-refugee rhetoric swells after Paris attacks Far-right politicians call for borders to be sealed in wake of Paris assaults amid growing fears for refugees’ plight. Anealla Safdar | 17 Nov 2015 In the days after a wave of deadly attacks killed at least 129 people in Paris, a number […]
The West should do everything in its power to make those fleeing ISIS and extremism feel welcome and wanted BY JESSE BERNEY November 14, 2015 One World Trade Center in New York City was lit in the colors of the French flag Friday evening. Daniel Pierce Wright/Getty The anti-Muslim ugliness […]
EUROPEAN MIGRATION Swiss to retain high proportion of foreigners NOV 12, 2015 – 21:28 Europe’s migration crisis offers nations a way to replace aging labor pools. (Keystone) An analysis of migration data shows the Swiss can expect to have one of the highest European proportions of foreigners in their midst […]
By AFP – Nov 12,2015 – Last updated at Nov 12,2015 0 0 googleplus0 0 0 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) talks with Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama during the Valletta Summit on Migration in Valletta, Malta, on Thursday (Reuters photo) VALLETTA — European Union and African leaders on Thursday […]
DPA Germany’s military may be facing greater involvement overseas as Berlin seeks to fight the causes of the refugee crisis. With the refugee crisis showing no signs of abating, Germany is rapidly changing its foreign and security policy focus. Gone are the days of democracy promotion. Now the primary goal […]
Awakening to the Reality of War: A Journey Along the Refugee Trail By Navid Kermani Moises Saman/ Magnum/ Agentur Focus/ DER SPIEGEL Novelist Navid Kermani and photographer Moises Saman recently traveled for SPIEGEL from Budapest through the Balkans to Turkey. They tell of Europe’s treatment of immigrants who almost all […]
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS Swiss ambivalence towards immigration approach By swissinfo.ch and agencies NOV 8, 2015 – 13:15 Swiss voters are coming to terms with their 2014 vote to reimpose curbs on immigration for foreigners like this Spanish construction worker at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva. (Keystone) A growing number of […]
By Reuters – Nov 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants wait to travel by dinghy to the Greek island of Chios, from the Turkish coast near Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, on Wednesday […]
For the video please click here OCT 30, 2015 – 16:00 Canton Aargau is short of asylum shelters. The authorities now want to set up mobile Ikea units as temporary homes for 300 people. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The units are small, but easy to install. They offer space for at least four […]
By Susanne Koelbl Andrew Quilty/DER SPIEGEL As the situation in Afghanistan becomes ever more chaotic, an increasing number of Afghans are heading towards Europe. But as one family’s story shows, the trip often ends in tragedy. Redwan Eharai’s journey ends where it began: in Afghanistan, in the city of Herat. […]
By Jo Fahy Nov 5, 2015 The Swiss have been preparing themselves for an influx of refugees from Syria. While volunteers waited for people who weren’t going to come, twitter could have told them that Switzerland wasn’t on their radar. “Switzerland is not, and has never been actually, that much […]