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UN agency gets ECOWAS passports for ex-Liberian refugees in Nigeria

April 11, 2013 15:51
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday said it had received ECOWAS passports for 395 ex-Liberian refugees in Nigeria. The head of Lagos office for the organization Josephine Smith told reporters that the ex-refugees were among 925 Liberians that opted for local integration, following the agency's June, 2012 cessation of refugees privileges to Liberians in Nigeria. "Out of the 925 ex-Liberians refugees that opted to stay back in Nigeria, after the agency's 2012 cessation of their refugees' rights, we have just received stay permit passports for 39

Germany, UNHCR sign a EURO 10 M agreement to support refugee hosting districts

April 11, 2013 12:53
KFW Development Bank on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the UN Refugee Agency Thursday signed a financing and project agreement worth EURO 10 Million in support of the Refugee Affected and Hosting Area (RAHA) initiative. The funding will be used in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The signing ceremony was attended by Ms. Mandy Zeckra - Economic Counsellor at the German Embassy, Dr. Anna-Christine Janke - Country Director KFW Office Pakistan, Mr. Jens Clausen - Head of Division, Crisis and Governance KFW, Frankfurt, Mr.

Baby boomers'economic participation hits record

April 11, 2013 05:17
The rate of economic participation among baby boomers is currently 73.8 percent, the highest since 2000, data showed Tuesday.However, the data released by Statistics Korea raises concern that the percentage of the country’s economically active population will drop sharply when the baby boomers, born between 1955 and 1963, reach the retirement age of 60.The economic participation rate refers to the ratio of both employed and unemployed who can work and produce output among people aged 15 and older.Korea’s baby boombers constitute the bulk of the population in their 50s.

Better protection in Turkey for foreigners in need

April 11, 2013 04:31
After all the images in the media of hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing their country and looking for food and protection in Turkey, I guess most people, here and abroad, think that trying to cope with this massive influx of foreigners is Turkey's main problem in the field of asylum and migration. It is definitely the biggest logistical and financial challenge Ankara is facing at the moment.

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.

NSO Laguna embarks on business, industry census and data gathering

April 6, 2013 12:47
The Laguna National Statistics Office (NSO) joins the nationwide census and data gathering for the 2012 Census of Philippine Business and Industry (CPBI) from April 1 to 30.Laguna NSO Provincial Statistics Officer Magdalena Serqueña has announced that beginning April 1 the Laguna NSO field enumerators started the distribution of the questionnaires to the target business and industry respondents.Serqueña said the questionnaires are delivered personally to sample establishments and enterprises by the NSO field men during the month-long survey and these will be collected 10 days

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 cardinal defends Catholic stance on gay marriage

April 6, 2013 05:51
A leading US cardinal defended Catholic opposition to gay marriage during an Easter Sunday interview, saying that sometimes the church by its nature must be “out of touch.” The interview came days after the US Supreme Court held oral arguments on the question of same-sex marriage, which is legal in nine states but not recognized nationally because of a 1996 federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman. “Sometimes by nature, the Church has gotta be out of touch with concerns, because we’re always supposed to be thinking of the beyond, the eternal, the changeless,”
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