09.11.2011 On Wednesday, the German Ministry for Family Affairs presented the findings of its first study on forced marriage in Germany – which brought about alarming results. The study was commissioned by the Ministry and conducted by the women’s rights organisation Terres des Femmes and the Hamburg-based Lawaetz Foundation. It is based on information provided…
At the Oscars last month the gap between what interests Hollywood and what the rest of the world seems to be doing was sharp and clear. Of the five nominees for the best foreign-language film, all but one, among them the winner, “In a Better World,” from Denmark, dealt in some way with relationships between…
December 9th, 2010 Representatives of the Islamic communities of Álava, Vizcaya y Guipúzcoa – mostly Moroccans and Algerians, but also of Senegalese origin – gathered in Vitoria, summoned by Spanish converts to Islam, to establish The Basque Muslim Council, and advisory organization created with the aim of becoming the main interlocutor for the Muslim population…
1 November 2010 Only two weeks after saying attempts to forge a multicultural society had failed, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for more immigrants in the country’s civil service and deplored discrimination in employment. “We currently have a real under-representation of people of immigrant origin in the public service and we have to change…
Iben Helqvist Research Assistant Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Roskilde University Universitetsvej 1 4000 Roskilde Denmark [email protected] Area of Expertise: – Muslim interest groups – Political representation of Muslim minorities – Muslim civil societies in Scandinavia, Germany and the US CV available here Narrative bio: Iben Helqvist holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Roskilde…
