19 November 2011 The Moroccan Women’s Association Netherlands and the Support Re-emigrants Foundation have reported that around 80 Moroccan Dutch women a year report being stranded in Morocco during a visit from the Netherlands. The women, who previously emigrated to the Netherlands and obtained Dutch residency through marriage, are taken to the country under…
21 November 2011 Movisie, a Dutch organization for social development, has created a website to support immigrant girls in the Netherlands who are contemplating suicide. The site “You are not alone” has sections for girls of Moroccan, Turkish and Suriname-Hindu background. It was created in affiliation with the youth websites Marokko.nl, Hababam.nl and Indianfeelings.nl, and…
26 November 2011 The Schipol Airport’s practice welcoming pilgrims returning from Mecca with a small room providing mint tea and sweets has angered MP Hero Brinkman of the PVV Freedom Party. Brinkman contrasted the practice with an apparent lack of Christmas decoration at the airport. A Schipol spokesperson explains that due to the upcoming festival…
News Agencies – November 23, 2011 At Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto, a few dozen interested parties attended a discussion on religious accommodation within the Toronto District School Board. This may have the perverse effect of reigniting a debate that had died down since the summer, when a tiny group of angry Hindus…
News Agencies – November 23, 2011 More than a year before she and her two sisters drowned in a mysterious incident that is now the focus of a murder trial, a teenage student told her Montreal high school vice-principal that she had attempted suicide because her situation at home was intolerable, the jury was…
