Over 43,000 people have already crossed the Mediterranean this year – a fifty per cent increase on the same time last year OLIVER WRIGHT G7 SUMMIT, BAVARIA Monday 08 June 2015 Millions of pounds in British aid funding could be diverted from existing projects around the world and targeted […]
Patrick Kingsley Migration correspondent THE GUARDIAN 9 June 2015 In the darkness far out to sea, Hashem Alsouki can’t see his neighbours but he can hear them scream. It’s partly his fault. They are two African women – perhaps from Somalia, but now is not the time to ask – […]
JUN 8, 2015 – 15:47 The goal of the programme is to help refugees living in Switzerland to find farm work. (Keystone) A statement from the Swiss Farmer’s Union (USP) announcing a programme to employ refugees living in Switzerland has caused quite a stir – but for the wrong reasons. […]
NEVER ENDING: Migrants sit on a boat during a rescue operation off the coast of Sicily as part of the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton in this video grab released by Italian Coast Guards (Guardia Costiera) on Sunday. (AFP) AGENCIES ARABNEWS.COM Published — Monday 8 June 2015 LONDON/ROME: British, Swedish, Spanish […]
MAY 28, 2015 – 11:39 A refugee doing agricultural work in Basel (Keystone) Church charity Caritas is calling for a new protective status for people who do not receive asylum in Switzerland but who are not deported. It says they should receive the same rights as refugees who are […]
WORK SCHEME Farmers ready to employ refugees as farmhands By Anand Chandrasekhar MAY 20, 2015 – 15:05 Refugees often find it tough to enter the Swiss workforce (SBV/USP) A three-year pilot project to allow refugees to work on farms has been met by support from Swiss farmers. The move could […]
In graphics Europe’s boat people May 19th 2015, 12:11 BY DATA TEAM http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.b169aa788731255dd55f1bb243b660e1.en.html#_=1432716685773&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fblogs%2Fgraphicdetail%2F2015%2F05%2Fgraphics&dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fblogs%2Fgraphicdetail%2F2015%2F05%2Fgraphics&related=theeconomist&size=m&text=In%20graphics%3A%20Europe%27s%20boat%20people&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecon.st%2F1FdPM4B&via=TheEconomist THE SMUGGLING of people across the Mediterranean is not new; nor are the losses at sea that come with it. But the trade has vastly expanded over the past few years thanks to two developments. The civil […]
In graphics Europe’s boat people May 19th 2015, 12:11 BY DATA TEAM http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.b169aa788731255dd55f1bb243b660e1.en.html#_=1432716685773&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fblogs%2Fgraphicdetail%2F2015%2F05%2Fgraphics&dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fblogs%2Fgraphicdetail%2F2015%2F05%2Fgraphics&related=theeconomist&size=m&text=In%20graphics%3A%20Europe%27s%20boat%20people&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecon.st%2F1FdPM4B&via=TheEconomist THE SMUGGLING of people across the Mediterranean is not new; nor are the losses at sea that come with it. But the trade has vastly expanded over the past few years thanks to two developments. The civil […]
FAST-TRACK PROCESS Zurich set to host new federal asylum centre MAY 26, 2015 – 11:50 The Duttweiler Areal, as seen in 2013, site of the proposed new fast-track centre (Keystone) Zurich and the federal migration authorities have announced that the city is to host a new federal asylum centre, following […]
SAFE HAVEN Switzerland good first refuge for asylum seekers MAY 17, 2015 – 12:24 The majority of asylum seekers allowed into Switzerland last year did not qualify for refugee status (Keystone) Proportionally Switzerland admits more asylum seekers into the country on a provisional basis than most other European nations. […]
AP | May 23, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Migrants queue for a medical examinations at a temporary shelter in Bayeun, Aceh province, Indonesia, Saturday (AP photo) YANGON, Myanmar — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes behind a growing humanitarian crisis […]
There was so much hope for her as a moral leader in Myanmar, but power (or politics) has changed her ZAFAR SOBHAN 03.23.15 TOMAS MUNITA/THE NEW YORK TIMES In the face of scathing criticism from international human rights groups, supporters of the sainted Aung San Suu Kyi are left with […]
Nasir Jamal. Dawn.com The number of asylum seekers Pakistan has been producing since 2010 has risen phenomenally.—AFP/File The number of asylum seekers Pakistan has been producing since 2010 has risen phenomenally. But the government seems least interested in arresting the trend and is, intentionally or unintentionally, trying to obscure the […]
REFUGEE CRISIS Increase in illegal immigrants crossing Italian border By swissinfo.ch and agencies MAY 6, 2015 – 21:45 Last week 240 people tried to cross the Italian border into Switzerland illegally, with 120 migrants reaching Switzerland over the weekend alone. Ten additional guards have been sent to the Ticino border. […]
IMMIGRATION Amnesty asks Swiss to help end European migrant crisis APR 22, 2015 – 16:35 Amnesty International is urging the Swiss and other European nations to create a new rescue operation in the Mediterranean for migrants like these disembarking from an Italian Coast Guard ship on April 22 (Keystone) Amnesty […]
AP | Apr 23, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Migrants crowd an inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel ‘ Denaro ‘ (not in picture) of the Italian coast guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, on Wednesday (AP photo ) CAIRO — Libya’s chaos has turned it into […]
ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM Published — Thursday 23 April 2015 Last update 22 April 2015 11:42 pm Ask any African why is he in Europe. His reply would be: The Africans are in Europe because the Europeans were in Africa. Nowadays we learn about one tragic incident after another involving Africans desperately […]
Source: SWI ‘Faced with boat disasters, Europe must act’ By Thomas Stephens APR 20, 2015 – 08:57 The weekend’s refugee disaster off the coast of Libya has prompted indignation in […]
Agence France Presse LUXEMBOURG: EU foreign ministers will be joined Monday by their interior minister colleagues to discuss the latest migrant disaster in the Mediterranean which may have cost 700 lives, an EU official said. The foreign ministers were originally due to meet on their own but the agenda had […]
B PERMIT Starting over in Switzerland By Catherine McLean swissinfo.ch FEB 4, 2015 – 11:00 Jwan Othman and Media Joulak attend German classes each day, taking turns watching the children (Catherine McLean / swissinfo.ch) Jwan Othman and Media Joulak sit down on a black couch in the tidy main […]