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...REFUGEES 1% Percentage of refugees living in Greece who have been granted asylum. The country has been criticized by the U.N. for failing to provide interpreters and legal aid for the remaining 99% 50% Percentage of refugees living in Sweden who have been granted asylum, the highest rate in Europe...
...International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - or DOK Leipzig - began as the first independent film festival of the German Democratic Republic. This year, in line with its aim to host works "advocating peace and human dignity," the program includes a retrospective of German films about exile, asylum, migration and integration. There are also documentaries from and about Africa and new nonfiction films from Afghanistan. If cinema can change the world, this is where it starts...
...freedom must ultimately also mean freedom to change religion, and note that some Muslims insist that conversion from Islam is apostate, and punishable by death. In 2006, Abdul Rahman, an Afghan convert to Christianity, fled his native country after death threats and arrived in Rome, where he received political asylum from the Italian government and the support of the Pope...
...some students condemning the practice as promoting gender inequality while others argued that its cultural importance needs to be considered. Although female circumcision is internationally condemned as a human rights violation, some argue that it has positive implications as a cultural rite of passage. The film “Asylum,” released in 2003, follows the experiences of a Ghanaian woman, Baaba Andoh, who resisted her father’s attempts to force her to marry an older man and undergo female circumcision. Andoh fled her home country and was detained in the United States for a year...
...Magicians, Mercenaries and Miserable Creatures.” Bolaño presents each chapter as an objective portrait of one writer’s life and literature—and that literature is often as hilarious and absurd as it is disturbing.When not in an insane asylum, one character spends his life producing 500-page-plus refutations of philosophers ranging from Voltaire to Rousseau, including a five-volume critique of Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness.” Another character’s play combines scenes of rape with a masturbation contest (judged in three...