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Syrian refugees: more than 5m in neighboring countries now, says UN
The number of refugees who have fled Syria for neighboring countries has topped five million people for the first time since the civil war began six years ago, according to the UN’s refugee agency. Half of Syria’s 22 million population has been uprooted by a conflict that has now lasted longer than the second world war, the figures […]
Refugees Got Talent
Four Syrian friends put on a TV-style talent show to lift spirits at the refugee camp where they are stranded. Mahmoud has been stranded at a Syrian refugee camp in Greece for months. Dealing with the trauma of war and dislocation, depression is spiralling for many residents. He and his friends hatch a plan to lift people's spirits. They […]
‘We reached our limits’: Greece to stop taking back refugees – migration minister
Greece will cease taking back refugees under the controversial Dublin Regulation, as the country’s limited capacities to host people are already on the brink of collapse, the Greek migration minister announced in an interview. As the European Commission pressures Athens to re-implement the Dublin Regulation – stipulating that refugees can be returned to the first […]
Canada Is Expecting Even More Refugees to Come From the U.S
Since President Donald Trump's surprise election, some stateless U.S. migrants are choosing arrest by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police over risking deportation in America. Situations like this will become increasingly common, says Canadian immigration lawyer Richard Kurland in an interview with CBC News Thursday. And thousands will be seeking refugee status, he said. According to NPR, the Mounties can only […]
Hungarian border guards ‘taking selfies with beaten migrants’ as crackdown against refugees intensifies
“When they beat us, they were laughing with each other. The policemen, when they beat us, they are taking selfies with us.” This account given by Shahid Khan, a Pakistani asylum seeker, is among countless reports of abuse by police guarding Hungary’s heavily reinforced borders. He said he was attacked before being photographed and then chased […]
30 Spanish cities march in solidarity with refugees, against ‘Fortress Europe’
In scenes reminiscent of the widespread protests that swept Europe a year ago, human rights groups and social activists marched in 30 cities across Spain to demand that the government do more to help migrants and refugees and end “Fortress Europe.” United under the hashtags #NoEUFortaleza #NoFortressEU, protesters decried the perceived indifference of the Spanish […]
Stateless Rohingya Refugees Sucked Into Booming Bangladesh Drug Trade
Rohingya Muslim refugee Ali Hasan is desperately looking for a bride for his 14-year-old son, jailed last year in Bangladesh for carrying the popular drug ya ba. He hopes the girl's family would pay the $620 needed for Mohammed Hasan's bail as dowry. Police arrested Mohammed with 5,000 pills of ya ba, as methamphetamine is […]
Canada opens its hearts to Syrian refugees
Even as the United States debates its policy toward the tide of refugees from Syria, our neighbor to the North is taking steps to offer more and more of them sanctuary, especially the man our Martha Teichner’s been talking with… By the time the Istanbul-to-Toronto flight finally landed, Jim Estill had been standing around with […]
Home Office agrees to review asylum claims of child refugees in France
The Home Office has agreed to review asylum applications from child refugees in France after it emerged that several had returned to the site of the former Calais camp in a renewed effort to make the crossing to the UK. One teenager who arrived in London this weekend after hiding beneath a coach at the port told […]
Assad backs Trump ‘Muslim Ban’, says Syrian refugees ‘terrorists
Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad said US President Donald Trump’s ban on Syrians entering the United States targeted terrorists, not the Syrian people, appearing to defend the logic of the measure in an interview broadcast today. Trump last month issued an executive order, since suspended by a US district judge, that temporarily barred travellers from seven […]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 […]
