Immigrant women in Denmark run into language barrier
Monday, 21 June 2010
Language schools are failing to teach Danish to women with an immigrant background causing issues with the integration process: "It is not encouraging for the integration process that so many women are unable to take an active role in Danish society," said Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, a researcher at the Rockwool Foundation.
READ MORE: http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/49296-immigrant-women-run-into-language-barrier.html
TAGS: Education, Denmark
Westergaard's last cartoon
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Kurt Westergaard has published the last cartoon of his professional career: inscribed is the text "The Don Quixote of idealism says goodbye and thank you-- the Sancho Panza of reality remains - for now".
READ MORE: http://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/muhammed-tegners-sidste-streg
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, Denmark
Danish Muhammad cartoonist retires near age 75
Monday, 7 June 2010
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and caused outrage in the Muslim world, said Monday he is quitting because he is getting old: Westergaard said he hopes his retirement might help "to lower the terror threat" against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper where he has been working for the past 27 years.
READ MORE: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hxlb0ir4IjbfK6nJPi_v7VKSpucwD9G6K8281
TAGS: Freedom of Speech, Denmark
Hirsi Ali wins rights award from Danish cartoon paper
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has received the Prize for Freedom of Expression from Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper which sparked outrage by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005: "The committee did not doubt for an instant that you deserved this award for your unshakeable faith that it was worth fighting for your points of view," editor Joern Mikkelsen said at the prizegiving ceremony in Copenhagen: he said he was "proud" to give her the award, saying that "Hirsi Ali's fight for the freedom of expression is also our fight".
READ MORE: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Hirsi+wins+rights+award+from+Danish+cartoon+paper/2963014/story.html
TAGS: Analysis, Freedom of Speech, Denmark
Danish cartoonist at centre of Muhammad controversy on leave 'for security reasons'
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who has been attacked and repeatedly threatened over a drawing of Prophet Muhammad, has been placed on indefinite leave by his newspaper "for security reasons," he told AFP on Thursday: "It is forced vacation but it looks a lot like I'm being retired," the 75-year-old cartoonist said, adding that he himself still had an "insatiable desire" to work.
READ MORE: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=2938023
TAGS: Analysis, Freedom of Speech, Denmark
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