UNACCOMPANIED MINORS By Stefania Summermatter NOV 25, 2016 – 11:00 An unaccompanied minor sits in a transit centre for asylum seekers in Davos (Keystone) The number of migrant children arriving in Switzerland unaccompanied by a parent has increased tenfold in the past decade, with more than 2,700 asking for asylum […]
YUNUS PAKSOY@yunuspaksoy ISTANBUL Syrian children as they wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia in September 2015. More than 10,000 missing innocent child victims of conflicts around the world, including the Syrian civil war and the instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, are […]
Anne’s father Otto sought visas to the United States and the door was slammed in their face. I do wonder what the Trump administration would have done Robert Fisk Amsterdam @indyvoices Donald Trump would do well to read Anne Frank’s diary I’ve just visited the hiding place of some troublesome […]
FACES OF THE WORLD By Rainer Roduner and Roland Schm Switzerland has 8.3 million inhabitants, a quarter of whom are migrants from 193 countries. One person from each appears in a new photo book, The Switzers, by photographers Reiner Roduner and Roland Schmid. For Roduner, who initiated the three-year […]
Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in discover Since Donald Trump announced his intention to run in the presidential race, and his subsequent victory, there has been a notable […]
Reuters International NOV 13, 2016 – swissinfo.ch Refugee advocates hold a banner during a protest in central Sydney, Australia, October 5, 2016 calling for the closure of the Australian detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo (reuters_tickers) SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia has reached a resettlement deal with […]
Canada The last liberals Oct 29th 2016 | WINNIPEG MOST people “would give anything to trade places with you,” Dwight MacAuley, the province of Manitoba’s chief of protocol, tells his audience. No one disagrees. In a packed hall in Winnipeg’s century-old train station, 86 immigrants from 31 countries are becoming […]
NATASHA BERTRAND POLITICS OCT. 22, 2016, Mahmoud Alkhuder Mahmoud Alkhuder, who is originally from Aleppo, stands in front of the German flag in Dusseldorf earlier this year. Obtaining a visa to enter Europe legally is becoming more difficult every day as Syria’s brutal civil war — and the refugee crisis it […]
If convicted, Sharbat Gula, photographed as a 12-year-old refugee in 1984, faces a possible 14-year jail sentence Adam Lushe US photographer Steve McCurry took his iconic photograph of the ‘Afghan Girl’ named Sharbat Gula, in 1985 The Afghan girl whose piercing eyes made her famous when her photo appeared on […]
Reuters International OCT 22, 2016 – By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians took part on Saturday in rallies to welcome refugees and make a stand against rising far-right sentiment against foreigners. More than 20,000 people, including prominent politicians, attended demonstrations in 25 cities and towns across the […]
Growing anger after some children are placed in foster care – and even a detention centre – because background checks on family members have not been carried out Rob Merrick Dep @Rob_Merrick The refugee camp in Calais, which is due to be demolished tomorrow Getty The arrival of child refugees […]
AFP | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 Migrants and refugees, aboard a ship, wait in line to be registered after being rescued, in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Thursday. (AP) ROME: Up to 25 people were missing, feared drowned, Friday after men on a […]
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, ASSOCIATED PRESS EL CAJON, Calif. — Oct 20, 2016 Seated at his desk at a suburban San Diego middle school, 12-year-old Abdulhamid Ashehneh tries not to let his mind wander to the painful memories of his life in civil war-torn Syria. His father disappeared suddenly four years […]
AGENCIES | Published — Thursday 20 October 2016 Petra Laszlo MADRID: Hungarian media said Wednesday that the camerawoman who was filmed last year kicking and trying to trip migrants near Hungary’s border with Serbia has accepted an award for a documentary. According to Hungarian media, Petra Laszlo, credited as the […]
10/14/2016 Sophia von Bonin Co-founder of Re:Start CARSTEN KOALL VIA GETTY IMAGES What if we viewed the influx of refugees into Germany as an opportunity rather than a crisis? This was the question I asked myself, together with a group of young Berliners, when over 800,000 refugees arrived in Germany last […]
Thursday, October 13, 2016 Two orphans from Burma – image TCT Pope Francis has made an urgent call for action to be taken against those who profit from the exploitation of child migrants. In a strongly worded message released ahead of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the Pope […]
The plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities RICHARD POTTER Editor’s Note: This is part one in our series on Pakistan’s persecuted religious minorities. Click here to read part two, focused on the Ahmadi Muslim population. Credit: Pakistani Christian News Nestled in the outskirts of Bangkok, hidden from the tremendous flow […]
When a Syrian peasant woman approaches our table in a small Ottoman restaurant, the locals step forward to give her coins. It puts to shame the liars of the Brexit campaign and their hatred of the foreigners who supposedly threaten little England Robert Fisk Kilis @indyvoices 176 comments Syrian refugees […]
Queen Margrethe’s comment came in a wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel. Photo: JAN WOITAS/Scanpix Published: 04 Oct 2016 00:57 GMT+02:00 With Denmark once again engaged in a national conversation about what makes one ‘Danish’, Queen Margrethe II told German newspaper Der Spiegel that she represents “all people who are citizens […]
PARVEEN AKHTAR 5 October 2016 What lies behind two intra-Muslim killings in Britain? The question is timely at the unifying moment of a new Muslim year. East London Mosque, Whitechapel, London. Steve Parsons PA Archive/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.The start of the new Islamic calendar year falls this […]