REPORT Michael Ignatieff, Juliette Keeley, Betsy Ribble, and Keith McCammon Monday, September 12, 2016he full report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On September 20 at the United Nations in New York, President Obama convenes a Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis. This follows the Secretary-General’s High-Level Summit on Refugees and Migrants the […]
SOURCE: Swiss Info By Duc-Quang Nguyen With nearly 30% of the population born outside of its borders, Switzerland is one of the European countries with the highest proportion of foreigners. Globally, the Gulf countries host the most migrants. Still, contrary to popular belief, these rates have remained relatively stable over […]
SEP 10, 2016 – An asylum seeker shows his refugee route from his home country to Switzerland (Keystone) Switzerland’s top migration official says 50% to 60% of those seeking asylum in the country vanished over the summer. Mario Gattiker, who oversees the State Secretariat for Migration, told reporters on […]
By Hussain Nadim Published: September 9, 2016 The writer is a PhD candidate and coordinator of the South Asia Study Group at the University of Sydney The current refugee crisis in Europe is not the only event that debunks the myth of Western civilisation’s high moral standards of human rights, […]
Child refugees in Greece have missed 18 months of their education on average, with one in five never having been to school. But on one island, a Swiss organisation has […]
While Turkey is home to many ethnic minorities, this community often attracts immediate attention, particularly in the wake of the recent refugee crisis. By Alev Scott 8 September 2016 In the sleepy village of Naime, 60km southeast of the Aegean port of Izmir, a woman who claims to be 106 […]
Sep 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Germany faces serious problems trying to integrate most of the 1.1 million refugees who entered that country in 2015 and the 300,000 expected this year. Three-quarters of refugees who travelled to Germany last year are male and two-thirds less than 33 years […]
One year on, has the world learned the lesson of the three-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 1 September 2016 The body of Aylan Kurdi has gone beyond the ‘iconic’. Being small and dressed like a little European boy, and being white rather than brown-skinned, […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 1) Defining the 25% foreign population in Switzerland By Duc-Quang Nguyen AUG 31, 2016 For the first time, Switzerland has 2 million foreigners living in its midst. As of last year, these non-Swiss – often the subject of political debate – accounted for nearly a quarter of the nation’s […]
ANADOLU AGENCY PARIS Tents of a migrant camp are pictured at the Parc des Olieux in Lille, northern France, on August 30, 2016 (AFP Photo) France is set to open its first approved refugee camp in the capital by the end of September, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced Wednesday. Hidalgo […]
Jörg Meuthen and a cake. Photo: DPA Far-right AfD leader injured by flying frozen cake Published: 30 Aug 2016 The co-leader of the far-right AfD party was attacked with a cake while attending a political event on Monday. But the fact the dessert was frozen made the act “dangerous”, according […]
Source: The Local The refusal of some EU countries to accept Muslim refugees is “unacceptable”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday as Germany called for quotas to divide the influx throughout […]
Businessman Rachid Nekkaz. Photo: AFP Published: 22 Aug 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 A businessman has been picking up the tabs for the women caught wearing burqinis on French beaches, and tells The Local he’ll keep “fighting to the death” for freedom. Even though the burqini has been banned in over a […]
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Germany bemoans Swiss-transited asylum seekers AUG 17, 2016 – 21:43 Asylum seekers arriving in Switzerland from Italy (Keystone) German officials have complained that the border with Switzerland has more holes than a “Swiss cheese” as asylum seekers head north across the Alps, despite the best efforts of Swiss […]
Lone children seeking refuge in the UK – many of whom have never seen a table tennis match before – find a topspin welcome on the south coast Players at Brighton table tennis club. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Kate Lyons Friday 26 August 2016 On the wall […]
Aug 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GLADA LAHN The Syria crisis, which has displaced some 11.3 million people, has exposed the cracks in the conventional humanitarian relief system. And for neighbouring countries like Jordan that host the majority of refugees, it is widening pre-existing cracks in public service systems and […]
Jobs hope Trying to make Kosovo work By Julie Hunt, Koso Aug 17, 2016 – 11:00 Ethnic flavour boosts tourism in Kosovo (swissinfo.ch ) Kosovo is a country on the mend after the 1999 war. But high unemployment and widespread poverty have spurred many Kosovars to leave. Switzerland is one […]
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter A Hungarian Archbishop has warned that European nations are making a big mistake by allowing mass Muslim immigration, and said that Islam is guided by a “will to conquer,” which is driving millions to come onto the continent. “Jihad is a principle for […]
BLOCKED By Gerhard Lob in Como and Chiasso AUG 5, 2016 – 16:29 Not all migrants are allowed to cross the Swiss-Italian border (Keystone) More and more migrants who want to travel via Switzerland to northern Europe are becoming stranded in Como, Italy, just a few kilometres from the Swiss […]
Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA Over 2 in 3 Germans don’t blame Merkel for terror attacks Published: 03 Aug 2016 15:10 GMT+02:00 Updated: 03 Aug 2016 15:10 GMT+02:00 Since two violent attacks in Bavaria by Islamist fanatics Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure for her open-door refugee policy. But most […]