Danish lawmakers debate seizing refugees’ valuables Image Credit: AFP Migrants and refugees walk in a muddy road after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia near the village of Miratovac on January 7, 2016. Migrants and refugees are facing deteriorating weather conditions as they make their way to the EU via […]
Jan 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Peter D. Sutherland The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons. First, Europe and the international community have grossly inadequate systems for protecting vulnerable migrants. Second, in the absence of such systems, populist leaders will prey on fear to gain political support, undermining the […]
UN headquarters building in Geneva. Photo: The Local UN summit on settling Syrians set for Geneva Published: 07 Jan 2016 18:03 GMT+01:00 The United Nations will hold a conference in Switzerland where countries will be asked to pledge resettlement places for people fleeing the Syrian conflict, the UN’s new refugee […]
Source: Reuters The migrant crisis engulfing Europe poses a big challenge to Europe’s values and traditions but the continent should be able to integrate the newcomers without undermining the safety […]
By Reuters – Jan 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Police drive back right-wing demonstrators using a water cannon during protests in Cologne, Germany on Saturday (Roland Weihrauch/dpa via AP) COLOGNE — German riot police broke up far-right protesters in Cologne on Saturday as they marched against Germany’s open-door migration policy […]
Quelle: Facebook New Year’s Eve in Cologne rapidly descended into a chaotic free-for-all involving sexual assault and theft, most of it apparently committed by foreigners. It has launched a bitter debate over immigration and refugees in Germany — one that could change the country. By SPIEGEL Staff A lot happened […]
By Reuters – Jan 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A man carries a child as they try to reach a shore after falling into the sea while disembarking from a dinghy on which they crossed a part of the Aegean Sea with other refugees and migrants, from Turkey to the Greek […]
By Matthias Bartsch and Anna Clauß AFP False rumors of misdeeds by Muslim refugees are everywhere in the Internet. But where do they come from? Absurd, unfounded reports about asylum seekers are circulating on German social media. They are part of a targeted misinformation campaign by right-wing extremists designed […]
JAN 5, 2016 – 10:23 The plywood shelters were put up in an exhibition hall near Zurich (Keystone) A first group of refugees has moved into an exhibition hall near Zurich where they are occupying small wooden houses specially built for them after models purchased from IKEA were deemed unsafe. […]
By Jeannie Wurz http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/inline?urn=urn:swi:audio:41845760 SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES DOWNLOAD MP3 FILE JAN 3, 2016 – 11:00 Living in a foreign country can be challenging, no matter how old you are. How well you adapt depends on the support available from family, friends, and the community. SWISSINFO.CH
31 December 2015 From the sectionEurope SPIEGEL.DE Image copyrightEPAImage captionMrs Merkel’s pre-recorded speech is to be broadcast on Thursday evening German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to use her New Year’s speech to urge Germans to see the influx of refugees as an opportunity for the future. Warning against support […]
Norway’s Minister of Immigration and Integration Sylvie Listhaug. (AP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published — Wednesday 30 December 2015 STOCKHOLM: Norway’s center-right government on Tuesday proposed tightening the country’s asylum rules to avoid what the immigration minister described as “violent consequences” for the country’s welfare system. ADVERTISING 2 The measures, which […]
Huff Post: by David Briggs — Fifty-six percent of Americans believe houses or rooms can be haunted. One in five believes Bigfoot is a real creature; about the same percentage are afraid of zombies. Yet at least until the walking dead put up their own candidate in the New Hampshire […]
At the Grande-Synthe camp, children are forced to play in the mud as a sanitation crisis looms Adam Lusher Wednesday 23 December 2015 286 comments Mohammad Faiq, four, plays outside his family’s tent at the Grande-Synthe camp, near Dunkirk, yesterday Justin Sutcliffe In front of a tent pitched beside a […]
Voices Syria’s war is complicated – but the refugee crisis is not How is it that Lebanon and Jordan – smaller, less-wealthy nations – are able to take in more refugees than the whole of Europe put together? Rachel Shabi @rachshabi The child of Kurdish migrants stands outside a tent […]
Source: Time Polls suggest the migrant crisis has made ‘Brexit’ more likely David Kirby has had enough. At 71, the retired electrician and lifelong Londoner doesn’t like the way England […]
At the Broncos-Chargers game in San Diego last Sunday, a group of four Sikh Broncos fans were allegedly stopped by security guards before entering the stadium, asked to remove their turbans, and had their car searched by a bomb-sniffing dog, according toSan Diego ABC 10 News. Verinder Mahli and his […]
Source: Aljazeera Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp, Lebanon – The once-bustling main street of Lebanon’s most over-populated Palestinian refugee camp is noticeably empty. Storefronts, where dozens of chain-smoking young men perched […]
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) Faith-based agencies that resettle refugees in America stand to gain more than a clear conscience if the United States — after what is expected to […]
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 ) […]