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Conditions are horrific at Greece’s ‘island prisons’ for refugees. Is that the point?
The first thing you notice is the smell: the stench from open-pit latrines mingling with the odor of thousands of unwashed bodies and the acrid tang of olive trees being burned for warmth. Then there are the sounds: Children hacking like old men. Angry shouts as people joust for food. And, finally, the sights: Thin, shivering […]
Palestinian refugees live in fear of Trump aid cuts
Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Palestinians living in refugee camps have expressed deep alarm over US threats to potentially cut funding for a relief agency tasked with providing aid and services to them. For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has been the lifeline to the more than five million registered […]
Up to 100 refugees feared drowned off Libyan coast
Between 90 and 100 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya. The inflatable boat was carrying more than 100 people when it went down off the eastern city of Khoms on Tuesday, said Ayub Qasim, a spokesman for Libya’s coastguard. Rescuers found just 17 survivors […]
At UN, universities spotlight hands-on approach to integrating refugees
At a special summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York, universities, led by De Montfort University (DMU), spotlighted ideas for practical ways they can use the skills, experience and voluntary power on their campuses to support those in need in their local areas. “Migration has become a scary word in some parts of the […]
Afghan refugees in Pakistan reluctant to return home
By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Samiullah Abdullah, 12, is among the several thousand grandchildren of the Afghan war, who are seeking refuge in Pakistan. His parents were born in Pakistan in the 1980s, when then Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in what followed a nine-year-long war. “I have never been to Afghanistan. I know nothing about […]
Chechnya’s LGBT Muslim Refugees Struggle To Cope In Exile
Abdul Kadr’s wife found out he was gay the night his relatives came to kill him. She hid him inside the home in Grozny, Chechnya, where they lived with their four young children, and told him she’d stand by him. “She saved my life,” says Abdul Kadr, a silver-haired former businessman in his 40s. Being […]
Rohingya Muslim refugees face fresh misery as Bangladesh welcome runs out
After a year that has seen them subjected to a brutal Burmese military crackdown described as “ethnic cleansing” by the UN and US, Rohingya Muslim refugees face the prospect of a concerning new development in 2018 across the border in Bangladesh. Conditions in the camps of Cox’s Bazar continue to deteriorate as more Rohingya arrive, and those trapped here have one […]
Mediterranean migration crisis: Refugees face violence, vitriol and death at the new ‘back door to Europe’
At a small Senegalese restaurant hidden away in the depths of Tangier’s Old Town, a 28-year-old Sierra Leonean man with impeccable English tells The Independent about his “dream” of making the short sea crossing from Morocco to Spain. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a Moroccan man lurches into Amy’s Restaurant and lunges across the tables, swinging a firm […]
Call for Syrian refugees’ interpreters to get psychological support
Interpreters for Syrian refugees should be given psychological support as a “priority” due to the stress the work causes, according to a study. Researchers looked at how the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme (SVPRP) was rolled out in Edinburgh, as a way to provide guidance for other authorities. Welcoming arrangements were found to have exceeded […]
Desperate plight of Rohingya refugees hits home in Bradford
It took the best part of 36 hours to travel from his Victorian terrace home in Bradford to the ever-growing refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. But of the 5,000-mile trip, it was the final few hundred meters that were the hardest. “When I was 500 meters from my parents home I was crying loudly,” said Deen Mohammed […]Recent Posts
As the widely acknowledged site of a massacre, the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine seemed a peculiar place for Myanmar government officials to kick off a foreign press tour. Walking into the rain-soaked village more than a year later, there were no specific signs of the outburst of sudden, gruesome violence that killed […]
