I mmigrants in Oulu, northern Finland, staged a demonstration on 24 February 2012 against the shooting to death of an immigrant in a pizzeri...

On Sunday, 17 April 2011, voters in Finland went to the polls in a parliamentary election which changed Finland's political landscape ...

Photo of a member of Sweden Democrats, 1996: Expo . Y ou've probably heard that Sweden Democrats ( Sverigedemokraterna , SD) - a xen...

L ast week, a news release by Human Rights Watch , revealed that in the U.S., undocumented immigrants face sexual abuse, harassment and ass...

X enophobia, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, refers to fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that i...

E arlier this week, I was appalled by a video footage of French police officers enforcing a forced eviction of African immigrants, predomi...

A lthough Finland has failed to ratify the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and All Members o...

T he U.S. Justice Department has challenged the constitutionality of a  Misguided Immigration Law in Arizona , in a court of law. The immigr...

A couple of weeks ago, a [foreign] student in Finland asked me a question: where do you turn to if you lend someone a hugh amount of money a...

L ast week's article on Significant Human Rights Instruments raised some questions for discussion pertaining to the International Conve...

The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer (picture to the right) on April 23, 2009, signed into law - a bill that makes it illegal for immigrants...

It is no secret that many immigrants in Finland are in limbo - cutoff from day to day activities that make life more fulfilling and dignifyi...

The Finnish AIDS Council offered free HIV tests for immigrants and foreigners in Oulu and Helsinki , Finland on Monday April 12, 2010. The...

Finland's Minister of Migration and European Affairs - Astrid Thors was issued death threats on Facebook, for her "treasonous...