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More Eastern European settlers make Western Europeans happier with immigration - study

April 9, 2013 10:49
A higher level of migrants settling from Eastern Europeans makes West Europeans feel happier about immigration in general, a new study says.The British Sociological Association’s annual conference in London heard on April 3 that people rated the economic and cultural benefits of immigration more highly the more East Europeans migrants there were in their country.Anne-Marie Jeannet, a graduate student researcher at the University of Oxford, told the conference that she examined responses by 95,685 people in 15 West European countries (including Greece) to the European Social S

Impact of Bulgarian, Romanian migrants on Britain likely to be modest: report

April 9, 2013 02:16
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Friday said in a report that immigration into Britain from Romania and Bulgaria is likely to have only modest impacts on the country's public services.The FCO report came ahead of a planned lifting of immigration restrictions on migrants into Britain from the two of the European Union's (EU) newest member countries."Our research suggests that there will not be a major impact on services of any further migration from Romania and Bulgaria once restrictions have lifted," said Heather Rolfe, one of the authors of the report fro

Japan provides USD 6 m to support UNHCR’s refugee programmes in Pakistan

April 6, 2013 13:03
Japan has provided USD 6 million in support of the UNHCR’s refugee programmes in Pakistan and the funds will support UNHCR’s commitment to provide primary school education to around 75,000 refugee children in different refugee villages.The funding will also bolster UNHCR’s efforts in providing assistance to Afghan refugees in the areas of primary health care, provision of legal services, specialised services for children at risk, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

Japan provides US$ 6 million to support UNHCR’S Refugee programs in Pakistan

April 6, 2013 10:48
The Government of Japan has provided US$ 6 million in support of the UNHCR’s refugee programmes in Pakistan.The Japanese funds will support UNHCR’s commitment to provide primary school education to around 75,000 refugee children in different refugee villages.The funding will also bolster UNHCR’s efforts in providing assistance to Afghan refugees in the areas of primary health care, provision of legal services, specialized services for children at risk, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

US draws 260,000 Mexicans each year

April 5, 2013 17:30
The United States each year draws more than a quarter million Mexican migrants, significantly less than the historic highs of two decades years ago, a report released on Friday said. The influx -- including Mexicans both with and without legal authorization to be in the United States -- is about 260,000 per year, according to the document released in Washington by the Migration Policy Institute.

Close to 4 million displaced inside Syria

April 4, 2013 12:01
The UN is hiking its estimates of people trapped in Syria after fleeing their homes, saying Wednesday some four million are now displaced inside the country and in dire need of international help. The figure, due to be officially released in the coming days, is a dramatic increase on earlier estimates of some 2.5 million displaced put forward by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for the period from January to June.

Dignitaries feel children with disabilities need more help to merge into society

April 3, 2013 11:13
In an effort to increase support for children with disabilities, the Association of Early Intervention for Children with Disabilities gave a tour of its facilities to H H Sayyida Dr Muna bint Fahd al Said; H E Dr Yahya al Maawali, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Social Development; and representatives of Khimji Ramdas Group on Monday.The guests were briefed on what the association offers to children with disabilities as well as its achievements and the challenges it encounters.Sayyida Dr Muna said, “We need to be with children with disabilities to be able to follow their pr

China 'two-child policy' town shows scope for reform

March 31, 2013 23:45
A few places in China give parents a rare right to have two offspring rather than one, but many stop at a single child anyway -- fuelling demands to end what critics call an unnecessary, harmful rule. "If you have too many kids then it becomes difficult," said Lu Xiuyan, a 42-year-old restaurant manager in Jiashan, a dusty village of low-slung buildings a few hours north-east of Beijing, who has one son. "But if you have fewer kids, you have less of a burden and you'll be a little better off."

refugee status seekers-financial aid

March 19, 2013 03:01
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- Foreigners seeking refugee status in the country will be able to get financial aid or stay at a facility for up to six months, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said it has created an enforcement ordinance for the revision to the law on providing living costs to refugee status seekers or allowing them to stay at the facility for a period of six months after submitting their applications. After the period, the government will allow them to get jobs, it said.

China performed 330 mn abortions since 1971: data

March 16, 2013 03:00
Nearly 330 million abortions have been performed in China in the 40 years since it first implemented measures to limit population growth in the world's most populous nation, official data showed. China has announced structural changes to its family planning system which oversees the controversial one-child policy during the ongoing annual meeting of the national legislature in Beijing.
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