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Where can Syrian refugees go?
Millions of displaced Syrians are looking for a place to be resettled, while countries around the world continue to reject them. On Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 and amid the world’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II, Donald Trump imposed a four-month suspension of all refugee admissions into the US and indefinitely banned entry to all Syrian refugees. The […]
Syrian refugee family who found safety in Germany name their baby Angela Merkel
A Syrian refugee family in Germany have named their newly born daughter Angela Merkel Muhammed, in gratitude to the Chancellor. Asia Faray and Khalid Muhammed arrived in Germany with their four children at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 thanks to Ms. Merkel's open-door asylum policy. Angela is the couple's fifth child. She was born on […]
‘I lost everything – then Britain gave me a life’: Refugees who risked it all to flee war-torn homelands tell their stories
They came across in packed boats, some were chased out of their homes by machine-gun-wielding men others and another sent here by his mom when he was just six. Now refugees have described escaping their war-torn countries to find safety and freedom on British soil. The British Red Cross traveled up and down the country during Refugee […]
G20 Summit: Refugees call Hamburg rioters ‘crazy’ after third night of violence
Anti-globalisation protesters involved in a third consecutive night of clashes with police in Hamburg are ‘crazy’, according to some refugees in the city. Police used water cannon trucks against rioters, who hurled iron rods and pavement blocks at authorities, even after G20 leaders had left the city. “If people did this in Egypt they would be shot,” said […]
Can jobs in Ethiopia keep Eritrean refugees out of Europe?
Many thousands of Eritreans have fled the country for Europe in search for a better life. A multinational initiative is now trying to stem the flow of migrants to Europe by training refugees and giving them jobs in neighboring Ethiopia. "I was not sure we would make it across. I am so relieved we are […]
How One Swimmer Is Changing Global Perceptions Of Refugees
The road to the Olympic Games is a challenging one. Any athlete could crumble under the burden of rigorous training regimens, pressures to perform, and uncertainties about what the future holds. Still, it comes as little surprise that Yusra Mardini had the mental toughness to take on the challenges associated with training as an elite athlete. The teen made her […]
Charities saving refugees in the Mediterranean are ‘colluding’ with smugglers, Italian prosecutor claims
An Italian prosecutor has said that he has evidence that charities helping refugees and migrants cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe safely are “colluding” with people smugglers. Speaking to Italy’s La Stampa, Sicily-based Carmelo Zuccaro told the paper: “We have evidence that there are direct contacts between certain NGOs and people traffickers in Libya.” Charities were making telephone […]
102 villagers, 750 refugees, one grand experiment
There is no cinema in Sumte. There are no general stores, no pubs, gyms, cafes, markets, schools, doctors, florists, auto shops or libraries. There are no playgrounds. Some roads are paved, but others scarcely distinguish themselves from the scrub grass and swampy tractor trails surrounding each house – modest plots that grade into the farmland […]
Syrian refugees see glimmer of hope in Trump’s policy shift
For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. Some cheered the U.S. cruise missiles that hit an air base in central Syria — the […]
No Way Home- A Syrian family seeking asylum gets an answer
Illham Alarabi is one of those indomitable women who takes everything in stride. The kind of unflappable mother who can single-handedly extract her oldest son from a squabble with a bully, soothe the teething pains of another and bathe a baby, all while supper simmers on the stove. Traveling 1,500 miles from her bombed-out village near […]Donate Now
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It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]
