AlterNet: War on Iraq: The Girl Blogger from Iraq

Posted on April 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

AlterNet: War on Iraq: The Girl Blogger from Iraq
The Girl Blogger from Iraq

By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. Posted April 20, 2005.

Riverbend talks about her life, Iraq, and the world at large — and how her blog makes sense of them all.

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Tegen de wil achtergebleven / Left behind against their will

Posted on April 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Multiculti Issues.

Today the Advisory Committee on Aliens Affairs (ACVZ) will publish an advice for the minister of Integration, Verdonk, �Left behind against their will; a report on women and children abandoned in the country of origin�. For some time now both media and politicians have shown interest in the problem of women abandoned by their husbands in their country of origin without identity documents or residence entitlement. This usually occurs in the summer holiday period, and children are often left behind with their mothers. At the request of the Minister for Aliens Affairs and Integration, the Advisory Committee on Aliens Affairs (ACVZ) sets out in this report a number of recommendations on ways of dealing with this problem. The Minister asked the ACVZ
to focus on three specific areas:
(1) the nature and extent of the problem;
(2) how the return of women who find themselves in this situation can be expedited and
(3) what measures, under both criminal law and aliens law, can be taken against the men involved.

In its report, the ACVZ has therefore concentrated on these three areas, which are either directly connected or closely related to its field of operation. Abandonment in country
of origin is not a new phenomenon, but to date, no specific study of the issue has been
carried out. Only a rough estimate can be made of the extent of the problem, partly due
to the lack of appropriate registration. As a result, the report is of an exploratory nature.
To place the problem in a broader context and to obtain a deeper insight into its nature,
the ACVZ asked Dr E. Bartels, cultural anthropologist at Amsterdam Free University, to conduct a study. The ACVZ itself briefly examined internal files at the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) and conducted interviews with a range of interest groups, organisations offering assistance and experts. It also conducted a research of literature.

You can read a summary here.

Mijn VU-collega Edien Bartels heeft onderzoek gedaan voor de Adviescommissie Vreemdelingenzaken (De ACVZ) van minister Verdonk naar achtergelaten vrouwen in Turkije en Marokko. Onder andere op basis van dit onderzoek biedt de ACVZ vandaag het advies aan, aan minister Verdonk. De tekst van het advies is hier te vinden.

Hieronder het persbericht:
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