Vreemdelingenrecht.com - het weblog

 (Not read it myself yet) A young woman sits in her apartment in an unnamed English city, absorbed in watching the small dramas of her assorted neighbors through their windows across the way. Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, she believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation, moving between memories of her absent boyfriend and family and her homeland, dreams, and reality. At the same time, she begins writing for a magazine under the pseudonym "the Voiceless," trying to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it—or revealing anything about herself. Gradually, as the boundaries of her world expand—as she ventures to the neighborhood corner store, to a gathering at a nearby mosque, and to the bookstore and laundromat, and as an anti-Muslim hate crime shatters the members of a nearby mosque—she has to make a choice: Will she remain a voiceless observer, or become an active participant in ...

The Danish Refugee Council assists refugees and internally displaced persons across the globe: we provide emergency aid, fight for their rights, and strengthen their opportunity for a brighter future. We work in conflict-affected areas, along the displacement routes, and in the countries where refugees settle. In cooperation with local communities, we strive for responsible and sustainable solutions. We work toward successful integration and – whenever possible – for the fulfillment of the wish to return home. The Danish Refugee Council was founded in Denmark in 1956 and has since grown to become an international humanitarian organization with more than 7,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers. Our vision is a dignified life for all displaced. All of our efforts are based on our value compass: humanity, respect, independence and neutrality, participation, and honesty and transparency. DRC Syria DRC has been actively operating in Syria since 2008 mainly supporting refugees. In...

  Nieuwsuur Nog steeds zorgen over veiligheid terugkeer Syrische asielzoekers Vrijdag, 16:14 Binnenland Geschreven door Reinalda Start researchredacteur    Het is niet veilig voor vluchtelingen om terug te gaan naar Syrië, als ze hebben samengewerkt met de oppositie. Dat staat in een rapport van het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken over de veiligheidssituatie in Syrië. "Politieke opposanten kunnen het slachtoffer worden van verdwijningen, willekeurige arrestaties en detentie, martelingen en andere mensenrechtenschendingen", schrijven de opstellers van het rapport. Ook lopen mannen en jonge jongens het risico dat ze het leger in moeten. Dat geldt voor alle regio's in Syrië. Het rapport is van b...

Hardly a day goes by without discussions about the refugees who are crossing international borders. However, there are tens of millions of refugees who do not get to leave their country of origin. These ‘Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) are barely discussed on the news. Who are these IDPs and what is their position under international law? What are their rights and which actors have to provide them with those rights? Examples of well known countries with a high number of IDPs per capita are Syria, Iraq,the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. However, there are countries with a high number of IDPs that are not known to the general public. Among these countries is Azerbaijan, which has more than 600 000 IDPs due to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. With the Nagorno Karabakh conflict still not solved after more than 20 years, what is their position and what is done to make sure the rights of these forgotten group of people is ensured? This and more will be discussed du...

Ian Bremmer Ian Bremmer is een LinkedIn-beïnvloeder President at Eurasia Group President Trump is expected to issue an order blocking visas to anyone from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. A quick fact check reminded me that the 9/11 hijackers included 15 citizens of Saudi Arabia, 2 from the UAE, & 1 each from Egypt and Lebanon. Wellicht is mijn boekenblog ook interessant: http://dutchysbookreviews.blogspot.nl/l Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid van dit blog. Er staan wellicht nog meer artikelen op dit weblog die u zullen boeien. Kijk gerust eens rond. Zelf graag wat willen plaatsen? Mail dan webmaster@vreemdelingenrecht.com In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunnen claimen op krantenartikelen die op een blog als deze worden geplaatst maar na meestal een dag voor de krantenlezers aan leeswaardigheid hebben ingeboet terwijl wij vreemdelingenrecht specialis...

Originally placed here:  http://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-to-syrians-come-west-refugee-crisis-portuguese-prime-ministerantonio-costa/ Portugal hopes its welcome for refugees will save Europe, if they can be persuaded to come. By Paul Ames 3/22/16, 5:32 AM CET Updated 3/22/16, 7:33 AM CET LISBON, Portugal — Plenty of European leaders have a problem with refugees, but António Costa’s is unusual: the Portuguese prime minister can’t get enough of them. Costa has unilaterally more than doubled the quota allocated to Portugal under a European Union program to relocate refugees languishing in Italy and Greece. The 10,000 he’s agreed to receive is a drop in the ocean compared to the over 1.3 million people who have flooded into Europe over the past 14 months. Yet the offer from small, economically challenged Portugal looks generous set against the line taken by countries shunning the EU plan, w...

Flight From Syria: Refugee Stories Kindle Edition by Hugh Eakin (Author), Lauren Gelfond Feldinger (Author), Stephen Franklin (Author)...

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2009 file photo, the South Texas Detention Center is seen in Pearsall, Texas. Syrian Maissoun Hanaa Halawi has been detained at the South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall since December and could remain there ... more > View Comments Print By NORA OLABI - Associated Press - Sunday, July 24, 2016 PEARSALL, Texas (AP) - To reach the U.S. and claim asylum, all Maissoun Hanaa Halawi had to do was cross a continent by foot. Her one choice: Traverse the remote, roadless, impenetrable Darien Gap, a 10,000-square-mile tropical forest and swampland along the border of Colombia and Panama that separates the two continents. Halawi, her husband and a group of about 20 Indian, Middle Eastern and other asylum seekers faced a harsh reality. Not only do jaguars, scorpions, poisonous frogs and insects lie crouched in the shadows, paramilitary groups, traffick...

By Tim Masters Arts and entertainment correspondent 6 July 2016 From the section Entertainment & Arts Image copyright Deema Dabis Image caption Queens of Syria will tour the UK after its sold out run at the Young Vic In 2011, Sham was a pharmacist and mother-of-four with a comfortable life in the Syrian capital, Damascus. As the country descended into civil war, she and her architect husband become one of the millions of displaced ...

Thousands of top cooks, restaurateurs, and ice cream parlor owners are among those to have joined the exodus. And as they’ve found their feet, countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey have benefitted tremendously from the influx of a people renowned across the Mediterranean for the quality of their food. The Syrian civil war, which first erupted in 2011, has been an absolute catastrophe for that country’s people , over five million of whom have fled into exile in neighboring states. But for the wider Middle East, which has also struggled to cope with the fallout from these massive people movements, Syria’s implosion has come with a thin silver lining.    Residents of Amman can now sample the delights of Bakdash , formerly Damascus’s most famous ice cream spot, which since 2012 has doled out its pistachio and Arabic gum concoctions from the streets of the Jordanian capital. In Erbil, Iraqi Kurds can dine out at a ...

Eye-witnesses claim that less than a third of migrants who have already reached Germany, or are on their way there, are from Syria   In Berlin, Mohammad and Ismail told me less than a third of migrants in Germany, or on their way there, are from Syria. When I questioned this astonishing claim, they insisted they were right, calling over three friends who had travelled with them, who all said the same. Concerned about a misunderstanding, although their English is good, I drew a pie chart and asked them to mark on it the percentage of migrants arriving in Germany who are genuinely Syrian. Mohammad, watched by the others, took my pen and clearly drew a line showing they really did mean 30 per cent. If these young men are right, it makes a laughing stock of Mrs Merkel’s grandiose open-door plan. Ismail said: ‘In our reception centre there are many, including the three Sudanese girls, who pretend to be from our country. Yet these people have different hair, diff...

Saudi: ‘We have taken in 2.5m Syrian refugees’ Monday, 14 September 2015 15:38   56   19     0   80 File photo of Syrian refugees Saudi Arabia has received appro ximately 2.5 million Syrian refugees since the start of the conflict and spent $700 million in aid, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this weekend. “The Kingdom of #SaudiArabia does not intend to speak about its efforts to support #Syrian brothers and sisters, during their distress, as it has, since the beginning of the problem, dealt with the situation from a religious and humane perspective, and did not wish to boast about its efforts or attempt to gain media coverage,” the ministry wrote on Facebook. Adding that following misleading media reports, the Kingdom has decided it is important to reveal details of the efforts it has taken to help the refugees. The statement explained that the refugees have “been given the freedom to move about...