Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad makes comments during a meeting with Chairman of Torstar. On 5 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was visited by Mr John Honderich, Chairman of the Board at Torstar Corporation (media […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 4) By Duc-Quang Nguyen OCT 6, 2016 – 16:17 The free movement of people accord is in the line of fire as Europe battles with its migration crisis. But which European countries have more people leaving than arriving? We took a look at the data. It’s over […]
Her Majesty urges Germany to support refugees by investing in Jordan By JT – Oct 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Her Majesty Queen Rania delivers a speech at the Day of German Industry in Berlin on Thursday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Thursday […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP KAPITAN ANDREEVO, Bulgaria This file photo taken on February 11, 2011 shows a barbed wire fence near the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey. (AFP Photo) The EU’s beefed-up version of its struggling border force went into operation Thursday, in a rare […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred; saving a life is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Reuters By Crispian Balmer | ROME More than 5,000 migrants […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims at event to welcome spiritual leader say they’re working hard to fit in By John Rieti, CBC News Posted: Oct 04, 2016 A young Ahmadiyya Muslim girl welcomes the caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, with a sign that means ‘Welcome, present one.’ The spiritual leader arrived in Toronto on Monday […]
The rights group has criticized developed countries for not accepting enough refugees. BY JACK MOORE ON 10/4/16 AT 11:58 AM CLOSESyrian Refugees In Jordan Struggle To Go To School Just ten countries host more than half of the world’s refugees with wealthy nations showing a lack of responsibility in absorbing […]
WORK INTEGRATION How Graubünden integrates asylum seekers in the job market SOCIETY http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42438540 EMBED CODE OCT 3, 2016 – 17:00 People fleeing conflict or persecution have to battle to be recognised as refugees by countries like Switzerland. It’s another challenge to integrate into a foreign culture, especially without a job. […]
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will be ripped apart unless Brussels fat cats abandon their doomed migrant quota policy, the Austrian foreign minister has warned. By JOEY MILLAR PUBLISHED: 21:20, Mon, Oct 3, 2016 GETTY The EU’s proposed migrant quota could rip apart the 28-country club Sebastian Kurz said the “totally […]
Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan and Bush administration official and a former colleague on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), wrote the article “The United States bars Christian, not Muslim, refugees from Syria”, provocative, as its title suggests, but […]
ASYLUM STUDY SEP 23, 2016 – 09:14 Europe is in the grip of a migration crisis. Here, Italian officers rescue a woman from a crowded wooden boat carrying more than 700 migrants (Keystone) Europeans are more likely to accept asylum seekers who have a higher employability, have been persecuted […]
HUMANITARIAN PILOTS INITIATIVE http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:42461012 SEP 21, 2016 – 17:00 A private group of Swiss pilots has founded an NGO to search for migrants’ boats in distress in the Mediterranean. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The volunteers from the Humanitarian Pilots Initiative claim its easier to spot small boats from the air than it is from […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 3) By Duc-Quang Nguyen SEP 22, 2016 – Phrases like “refugee crisis” and “migrant waves” have routinely made the headlines in recent years. But is the prevailing feeling that Europe is facing an unparalleled level of mass migration backed by hard numbers? Here is a much quoted […]
Sep 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL World leaders are meeting in New York where the United Nations General Assembly is holding the first-ever summit on “Addressing large movements of refugees and migrants”. With numbers of people forced to flee conflict and hunger in their countries unprecedented since World War II, […]
Source: Brookings By Matthew Groh and Tara Vishwanath For Syrian refugees, Europe is the land of hopes, dreams, and contradictions. On one hand, the job opportunities, formalized asylum processes, and relatively […]
FEATURE The Death of the Most Generous Nation on Earth Little Sweden has taken in far more refugees per capita than any country in Europe. But in doing so, it’s tearing itself apart. BY JAMES TRAUB FEBRUARY 10, 2016 The Swedish Migration Agency in Malmo, the southern port city on […]
Photo: DPA Restaurant suffers backlash for throwing out veiled woman Published: 15 Sep 2016 17:15 GMT+02:00 A restaurant owner in western Germany has been accused on social media of racism after he threw a Muslim woman wearing a niqab out of his establishment. Last Saturday the woman went to the […]
File photo: The Local Published: 16 Sep 2016 Should it be easier for third generation immigrants – the grandchildren of foreigners residing in Switzerland – to obtain Swiss citizenship? The issue is causing headaches in parliament at the moment after the two houses failed to agree on what conditions should […]
Chitralekha Massey, the new Pacific representative of the office says politicians must show courage and close Australian-run detention centres Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton talks to prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in parliament. The UN human rights office has said Australia must end offshore immigration detention. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the […]
REPORT from Amnesty International Published on 19 May 2016 —View Original Download PDF (591.6 KB) New “Refugees Welcome Index” shows government refugee policies out of touch with public –China, Germany, UK top index measuring public acceptance of refugees; Russia bottom – Globally, 1 in 10 would let refugees stay in […]