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Category Archive: Europe, Help Refugees
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 […]
UNHCR launches air operation to bring Darfur refugees home
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, this week started the voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees from a camp in Bambari, in the Central African Republic, or CAR. More than 230 refugees have arrived at Sudan’s Nyala airport since the returns began on Tuesday. Sixty-six UNHCR chartered flights are scheduled to bring some 1,500 refugees home before […]
‘Syrian refugees improve Armenia’s social fabric’
The presence of Syrian refugees in Armenia’s mono-ethnic society has been celebrated in the capital Yerevan through the personal initiative of an art curator and three photographers who have been documenting the migration since the eruption of the war in Syria in 2011. A documentary photo exhibition that opened on Friday was called Home to Home, to […]
UNHCR convenes dialogue on global compact on refugees
The High Commissioner’s 10th Dialogue on Protection Challenges will take place in Geneva next week on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 December at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. This year’s forum will ‘take stock’ of progress to date in the development of a global compact on refugees, which UNHCR was asked to develop by […]
Perfect match: website gives academic refugees chance to connect
hen a record number of asylum seekers and refugees arrived in Germany two years ago, Carmen Bachmann was one of many in the country who felt compelled to help the newcomers settle in. She did not rush down to greet them with welcome signs or pledge to volunteer at refugee camps. Instead Bachmann, 41, a Leipzig University […]
Refugees occupy Syriza party office in Lesbos
Mytilene, Lesbos Island, Greece – When 17-year-old Karime Qias, an Afghan refugee, arrived in Greece‘s Moria refugee camp two months back, she felt as though she had arrived in prison. Along with her mother and seven siblings, she shared a flimsy tent with strangers. “The facilities were not hygienic, and the food was not edible,” she says, […]
How refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Myanmar are sustained by their food memories in Delhi
By Avantika Bhuyan It’s a grey Saturday morning, with a threat of rain in the air, but people are out in full force at the Nature Bazaar in Adchini, Delhi. Aroma of food being cooked wafts from the food court, and a small queue is forming outside a particular stall. There, ladies in head scarves […]
US pulls out of UN migrant and refugee pact
The administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a United Nations pact to improve the handling of migrant and refugee situations, deeming it “inconsistent” with its policies, the US mission to the global body announced Saturday. “Today, the US Mission to the United Nations informed the UN Secretary-General that the United States is […]Recent Posts
Emmanuel Macron will press Theresa May to take in more unaccompanied child refugees and pay more towards policing the port of Calais in a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday. The French president will on Tuesday visit the refugee camps in Calais ahead of the summit to survey the camp where his government estimates 400 people are living in […]
