Approximately one hundred immigrant associations across Spain announced that they would be marching in a dozen cities at 7pm on February 23rd, against the Partido Popular’s proposed policy of making immigrants sign a _Contract of Integration’ in Spain. The immigrant groups are also organizing a series of cultural events to coincide with the protest in…
A Belgian of Moroccan origin was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of heading a terrorist organization. According the Moroccan Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdelkader Belliraj had also committed six murders in Belgium between 1986 and 1989, including the former rector of a Brussels mosque and the chairman of a coordination committee of Jewish groups….
Lawyers for Islamist cleric Abu Hamza have lodged an appeal against his extradition from Britain to the US. Hamza is accused by United States of being part of a global plot and waging jihad against Western countries, and officials want to try him over the 1998 abduction of 16 Western tourists in Yemen. The Egyptian-born…
The Faculty of education of Lumsa and Regione Lazio has sponsored a pilot project aimed to inform and sensitize immigrants about food in Italy. A leaflet describing _healthy lifestyle’ included information about alimentary habits of some ethnic groups in Italy, and a food pyramid built on the principles of nutritional information and a importance of…
Until recently, children who opened a savings account at the Fortis bank would receive a free welcome gift of a piggy-bank. The gesture has been part of the bank’s gestures for years, and an estimated tens of thousands of children had received the piggy-bank gift. However, as the animal is a touchy issue for some…
