The Dutch government announced last week that from 2013, it will no longer finance integration and language classes for newly arrived immigrants in the state. Despite an amendment proposed by opposition parties, it appears that there will be no exception for refugees in the Netherlands. The new measure is introduced as part of bill amending(…)
From October 10th to October 24th, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Do 1 Thing campaign will be running. UNHCR Ireland, along with all other UNHCR agencies, are urging people to Do 1 Thing to show support for refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland and abroad. UNHCR estimates that in 2010, there were(…)
A recent article in the Irish Times described comments by a leading Australian urban geographer, Prof. Brendan Gleeson of NUI Maynooth, that Ireland will become a ‘climate change lifeboat’. The idea is that as climate change causes rising sea levels, displacing vast overpopulated regions of the world, Ireland will be less physically affected leading to(…)
The 2010 edition of the Dublin University Law Journal is out (available by subscription on Westlaw IE) and features a number of articles of interest to readers, including pieces by past guest contributors to HRinI Rachael Walsh and Paul Daly. I would recommend in particular Siobhan Mullally and Tanya Ni Mhuirthile’s article “Reforming Laws on Female(…)
The recent floods in Pakistan, described by one journalist as “beyond emotional comprehension” in the devastation wrought, have raised questions in this blog as elsewhere, as to the adequacy of the government’s response and the need for greater international coordination to deal with displaced persons. The floods are said to be an example of interactive(…)
This is our second guest post from Deirdre Duffy. You can read about Deirdre on our Guest Contributors page. According to the author Stanley Cohen (1997), no group has been as systematically and consciously demonised as refugees and asylum seekers. In his analyses of the creation of moral panics Cohen argues that at no point(…)
Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day and this year’s issue is climate change. Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty; the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to encourage action on the issue of global warming. The website of the UNFCC is here. More recently, a great number of nations,(…)
