Americans on Hold

New York University (NYU) School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) today released a new report on causes and impacts of the US Naturalization process. According to the report, the US government is illegally delaying the naturalization applications of thousands of immigrants by profiling individuals it perceives to be Muslim and…

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State of Legal Recognition of Islam in Germany

The document is a Government’s 88 pages response to a parliamentary motion by the Greens (written in German). It deals with numbers, with exercise of religion (e.g. number of mosques, languages of services, training and origin of imams, residence permits for imams, religious holidays, funeral law, etc), with legal recognition as entities, with state-religion constitutional…

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Charter on Laïcité in Public Services and Other Judgments

On April 4, 2006, the government renewed the Haut Council on Integration. This report results from its first year of exercice. The report analyzes different models for integration in Europe, stressing particularly Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom. It also provides recommendation on how to modify the Reception and Integration contract…

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Report on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU

Executive summary: This report on racism and xenophobia in the EU is the first to be published since the creation of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on 1 March 2007, following the extension of the mandate of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). This report, although published by the…

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Living Apart Together

Policy Exchange has released Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism, a major new survey of the attitudes of Muslims in Britain and the reasons behind the rapid rise in Islamic fundamentalism amongst the younger generation. The research finds that there is a growing religiosity amongst the younger generation of Muslims and…

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