Exclusive: In his 43-year career, Paul Stevenson has worked in the aftermath of the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami but says nothing he witnessed was as bad as the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus by Ben Doherty and David Marr In my entire career of […]
MINORS NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children JUN 16, 2016 – 16:58 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen, unless the law applicable to the child states otherwise. The age of majority in Switzerland […]
Jun 13,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Peter Sutherland In the last week of May, at least 1,050 migrants and asylum seekers died in the Mediterranean Sea, victims of the international community’s unwillingness […]
By Riham Alkousaa, Julia Klaus, Ann-Katrin Müller and Maximilian Popp Julia Unkel / DER SPIEGEL Cases of sexual assault in German refugee shelters are on the rise, with women and children facing the greatest danger. Despite pleas for help from the government, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has done little to […]
Reuters International JUN 13, 2016 – 15:43 Refugees and migrants are briefed by a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff (L) before a pre-registration process that gives them access to the asylum procedure, at the premises of the disused Hellenikon airport, in Athens, Greece, June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis […]
Anti-racism Jun 7, 2016 – 14:10 Recorded cases of victims seeking advice grew from 87 in 2008 to 239 in 2015. (Keystone) Most racial discrimination in Switzerland happens in the workplace, according to an annual survey published by the interior ministry. Of the 239 incidents where victims sought advice […]
By AFP – Jun 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants sit facing the sea near the former international airport in Athens, currently used as a temporary camp for migrants and refugees on Sunday (AFP photo) VIENNA — Asylum seekers to the European Union should be held on islands rather than […]
AP Migrants standing behind a fence at a refugee camp in southeastern Turkey. Many viewed it with skepticism from the start and now, the Brussels-Ankara refugee deal is in danger of collapse. Refugees are being locked up in Turkey and it looks as though the best educated Syrians are not […]
(File photo) As weather conditions improve, Libya has become a major hub for migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Mediterranean sea CREDIT: LOUISE GEORGE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES James Rothwell 23 MAY 2016 • 12:34PM The Libyan coastguard says it has intercepted migrant boats carrying more than 850 people across the Mediterranean. A […]
By Khetam Malkawi – May 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan ranked among the top 10 refugee welcoming countries, according to a global index issued this week. The “Refugees Welcome Index” issued by Amnesty International, based on a global survey of more than 27,000 people and carried out […]
Home » Opinion » Pierre Krähenbühl » ‘We must learn from young Batoul’ ‘We must learn from young Batoul’ May 23,2016 – From the battlegrounds of the Middle East come exemplary stories of courage and resolve that we must all listen to and learn from. Batoul, a 14-year-old Palestine […]
FAST-TRACK ASYLUM Is this the future of handling asylum requests? By Isobel Leybold-Johnson, Zurich MAY 22, 2016 – Staff at the test centre take on the roles during a “hearing” of an asylum seeker during the tour for journalists (Keystone) Voters will shortly decide on whether to speed up asylum […]
Source: Swiss Info The number of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers reaching Switzerland has increased sharply, but the country has come under fire for not having any common guidelines for their […]
PRISONER TESTIMONIES Stories of torture in Syria shock Swiss students By Islah Bakhat, Bern MAY 18, 2016 – http://www.swissino.ch In Bern, some 170 pupils under the age of 20 came to hear the activists’ testimony. (swissinfo.ch) Two Syrian refugees have described to Swiss students the brutal torture they suffered while in […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN AFP Photo During the height of the migrant crisis in Europe last fall, Lasse Landt came to a startling realization. Thousands of migrants were pouring into Germany every day, but the 36-year-old startup consultant from Berlin hadn’t met a single one of them. “It was all over […]
Refugee Aeham Al Ahmad, also known as “the pianist of Yarmouk” performs during a rehearsal, prior to a concert at Berlin’s Heimathafen concert hall on May 12, 2016. John MacDougall/AFP Pianist of Yarmouk plays to Germans’ hearts May 15, 2016 Updated: May 15, 2016 06:23 PM Berlin // A year […]
Firemen extinguishing a fire at a former hotel under reconstruction to become a home for asylum seekers in February in Bautzen, Eastern Germany. Photo: AFP Increase in arson at German refugee centres: police Published: 14 May 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 German authorities on Saturday reported an increase in the number of […]
REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAMME MAY 13, 2016 – 15:32 The group is made up of asylum seekers who reached Italy via the Mediterranean (Keystone) A group of 10 asylum seekers from Italy has arrived in Switzerland under the European Union’s refugee relocation programme. They are part of a pilot group of 30 […]
May 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Guy Verhofstadt Europe’s refugee crisis is far from solved, but there are signs that the agreement finalised by the European Union and Turkey on March 18 is reducing the flow of refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece. According to Frontex, the European border-management agency, […]
Cardinal Dominik Jaruslav Duka, the Archbishop of Prague, demeans Muslims and claims the Pope’s efforts are ‘just a gesture’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices 46 comments Being a Merseyide Anglican, my Dad […]