As the world celebrates World Refugee Day on Monday, Brazil is making progress in reducing prejudice against refugees in the country, especially in employment. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Brazil now has hosted over 4,400 refugees from 77 different countries, of which 64 percent are from African countries such as Angola, [...]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — South America’s largest nation and home to a large Arab Diaspora, Brazil is seeking observer membership in the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). Sergio Luiz Canaes, the Ambassador of Brazil to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Yemen, made an official request on behalf of the Foreign Minister [...]
It is now 1:10 in the afternoon and as the daily life in Tripoli unfolds that includes teachers, staff, and children at school, shopkeepers working in their businesses, streetsweepers sweeping the streets, people moving to and fro in the cars, on bicycles, and on foot, Tripoli has thus far since around 11:00 up to now, [...]
NEW YORK, USA. November 19, 2010 (TSR) – AUTHORITIES closed down 20 brothels masquerading as massage parlours and arrested 22 people for running a sex trafficking and prostitution network involving Korean women across four US states, officials said. The New York Asian Organized Crime Task Force, comprised of FBI and New York police investigators, uncovered [...]
SYDNEY, Australia. November 19, 2010 (AFP) – UP TO 10 asylum-seekers in a remote Australian immigration detention centre have sewn their lips together, the government said on Friday, just days after an Iraqi inmate at a Sydney centre took his own life. ‘This is distressing for me and most of the Australian people,’ Immigration Minister [...]
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