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In a Syrian refugee camp: I would tell President Trump ‘to come and see’ us
Families crammed into ramshackle tents. Children playing amid garbage. Their parents, bewildered and fearful — with no place to go. That is life in Jdita, a settlement center for Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. “What you see now is how we live every day,” says Hana Khalaf, surrounded by a half-dozen young children, her […]
Hungary to detain refugees in container camps on border
Hungary's government plans to hold refugees and asylum seekers in border camps built with shipping containers, completely restricting their freedom of movement. The measure will also apply to people in already existing facilities, who will be moved to the camps and kept there until their asylum claims are processed. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government […]
US halts vetting Nauru refugees for now, Australia says
US officials have stopped screening refugees on Nauru for potential resettlement, Australia has confirmed. But Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said he expected the process to resume "in due course". It follows uncertainly over a deal that would see up to 1,250 refugees currently held in offshore detention by Australia resettled in the US. The […]
Donald Trump ‘upset and angry’ over refugee deal discussed with Malcolm Turnbull
A STAFFER in the Prime Minister’s office has been suspended after posting anti-Trump propaganda to her social media page. An executive assistant to the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s chief of staff Drew Clarke, has been suspended today over “inappropriate” posts on her Facebook page, 2GB radio reports. The woman posted a photo and link to […]
Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports; Trump Immigration Order Is Challenged
President Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s borders to refugees was put into immediate effect on Friday night. Refugees who were airborne on flights on the way to the United States when the order was signed were stopped and detained at airports. The detentions prompted legal challenges as lawyers representing two Iraqis held at Kennedy Airport filed a writ […]
Turkish gov’t to set up new refugee healthcare centers, employ Syrian medical staff
Turkish gov’t to set up new refugee healthcare centers, employ Syrian medical staff Hosting more than 3 million Syrian refugees despite lack of global support, Turkish institutions and authorities are doing everything in their power to make Syrians feel at home and to provide them with necessary basic needs. Speaking at an exclusive live program […]
More refugees flee to Uganda than across Mediterranean
Uganda welcomed more refugees last year than the total number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Europe. “Europe should learn from the way Uganda and other African countries are keeping their borders open as the Refugee Convention prescribes, instead of specializing in barbed wire and walls,” said Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee […]
UN Launches New Plan to Ease Plight of Refugees, Migrants in Europe
The U.N. refugee agency, International Organization for Migration and 72 other partners are appealing for $691 million to implement a new plan to relocate and help ease the plight of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants in Europe this year. More than 1.3 million refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of […]
Syrian, Iraqi refugees dive into first Queensland summer with beach swim
Refugees who fled war-torn Syria and Iraq have been given a taste of a classic summer tradition, with their first swim at an Australian beach. More than 100 of Queensland's newest residents dove headfirst into the surf adventure at Caloundra, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Refugee agency MDA brought the group to the beach, including 13-year-old […]
European countries mistreating refugees in cold weather, says UN
Refugee agency claims people being pushed back over borders, beaten by police and having phones and clothes confiscated Refugees and migrants at risk of dying in the severe cold weather sweeping across Europe are being moved back over borders and subjected to violence and confiscations, the UN’s refugee agency has said, as it calls on […]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 […]
