migration

Articles

• Lose religion; gain a world
  3 February 2016, by siawi3

  Interview with Clive Aruede, Organiser of London Black Atheists.
  Also: Rouhani’s visit to Italy and France and the covering of nude statues, a boy chopping off his hand for blasphemy, the banning of the word wine in print and refugees against sex assaults on Cologne

• USA: Hindu Americans Rally for Trump’s Immigration Policy
  5 February 2018, by siawi3

  About 800 Indian-Americans participated in a march outside the White House on Saturday raising slogans in support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to implement a “merit-based” immigration system in the country

• Europe: we are all refugees
  30 August 2015, by siawi3

  There are more and more of them. From political refugees, civil war refugees, to refugees from climate change. Those who run away from hunger, repression, bombs, and those who run away from fires, flood and nuclear disasters. They are the vanguard, for the dangers that overwhelmed them are coming to us ,too. It is about all of us. The nomad population is growing, thanks to political and ecological failure. We are wasting our own lives by neglecting planetary politics. In the Mediterranean the nomads drown in illegal boats while the seaside swimmers find the ancient sea to be lukewarm with greenhouse heat — it’s not refreshing any more. The glaciers are melting into torrents down the Alps, wildfires are leaping in rich high-tech California, the refugees are landing on every shore they can physically reach.

• Italy: The spectre of fascism haunts Italy after attempted massacre forces African migrants to stay indoors
  10 February 2018, by siawi3

  It didn’t matter where they were: in front of a café, a tobacconist, or the train station. It didn’t seem to matter who they were: men or women, Italian citizens, “regular” immigrants or asylum seekers. So long as they were black.

• France : Laïcité, accords bilatéraux et droits des femmes migrantes sur le sol français
  9 mai 2017, par siawi3

  Abrogerez-vous les conventions bilatérales qui imposent la charia ? Selon les « accords bilatéraux » signés par la France avec certains pays, des femmes, même si elles résident en France, peuvent être « répudiées » et soumises à un traitement discriminatoire.

• Myanmar: UN experts warns against forcibly returning refugees without garantees from the government
  3 February 2018, by siawi3

  “For returns to be ever realized in a way that is voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable they must be treated as equals – citizens of Myanmar with all the rights that that status affords.” The UN expert saw great anxiety and fear when speaking to refugees about the prospect of returning to Myanmar. Refugees have been entirely excluded from conversations about their fate, and going forward they must be involved in a meaningful way. Talk of repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas anytime soon was premature.

• Serbia: Solidarity with refugees
  21 February 2018, by siawi3

  Report on the visit to refugees in Šid on February 12^th, 2018

• USA: ICE attacks Oakland mayor for warning residents about immigration sweeps; she stands by her actions
  1 March 2018, by siawi3

  Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf alerted residents that immigration raids might be imminent. Oakland, like many California cities, has declared itself a sanctuary for those here illegally, and officials there have vowed to fight President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

• USA: Seventeen Jewish Groups Call on White House to Fire Adviser Stephen Miller
  12 February 2018, by siawi3

  The organizations, including American Jewish World Service, Americans for Peace Now and T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, issued the call in an open letter they sent Thursday to Trump White House chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly. The letter was spearheaded by the National Council of Jewish Women.The co-authors wrote that Miller, who favors an immigration reform he said would benefit applicants who would assimilate more easily into American society than others, has “extreme viewpoints and advocacy of racist policies.” They slammed Miller, who himself is Jewish, for ’opposing the beliefs we hold dear’.

• France : « Avant le salam ah likoum, il y a le Après-vous »
  28 mars 2016, par siawi3

  Avant ou plutôt au lieu d’exiger une prise en compte publique ou politique de pratiques religieuses privées, il doit y avoir la reconnaissance de la primauté du Droit, des standards et du mode de vie de la société qui accueille.

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