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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
L’Église catholique allemande appelle à réduire le nombre de réfugiés arrivant en Allemagne, estimant que le pays ne peut pas «accueillir tous les nécessiteux du monde», selon une interview parue samedi dans la presse allemande. «En tant qu’Église aussi, nous disons que nous avons besoin d’une réduction du nombre de réfugiés» […].
Le flot des civils syriens contraints à l’exode pour échapper à l’offensive sur la ville d’Alep des troupes du régime de Damas, soutenues par la Russie, a encore grossi samedi devant le poste-frontière turc d’Oncupinar, pour l’heure toujours fermé. De 30 à 35 000 personnes ont rejoint les environs de la ville syrienne d’Azaz, proche de la Turquie […].
Des milliers de personnes ont pris part samedi à des manifestations contre les migrants à Dresde (est de l’Allemagne) et ailleurs en Europe, dans le cadre d’une journée européenne organisée par le mouvement islamophobe allemand Pegida et émaillée d’incidents. Les deux principales manifestations se sont déroulées à Dresde, berceau de Pegida où se […].
Statistics compiled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees show 57 per cent of the just over one million people who have arrived on the islands of either Greece or Italy since the start of last year were adult males, versus 17 per cent women and 27 per cent children. Strip out the under 18s, and 77 per cent of the adults who made “irregular entries” to Europe were men (compared with 66 per cent in 2012, before the refugee crisis began in earnest).
Protesters from the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement marched in cities across Europe today. With around 2000 attendees, the largest was in Dresden, the home town of the group, the Daily Mail reported. There were also far right demonstrations in the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Poland, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia and even Australia. In Birmingham, 100 – 300 protesters joined the first PEGIDA demonstration in Britain. […] Nationalist groups in Europe have been galvanized by the unprecedented influx of refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East last year.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario is hosting workshops for elementary teachers across the province to help them meet the needs of Syrian and other refugee children arriving in smaller centres and rural areas. “We have a number of locals outside of major cities where school boards may have no experience or infrastructure in place to welcome these children from refugee situations into the elementary school system,” ETFO president Sam Hammond said this week. “Our goal is to assist ETFO members to work with all students to create a welcoming classroom environment and to identify and support the learning needs of these newcomers.”