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South Sudan: UN, partners seek $1.4 billion for ‘world’s fastest growing refugee crisis’
15 May 2017 – The United Nations refugees and food relief agencies today urged donors to step up support for people fleeing crisis-hit South Sudan as the $1.4 billion response plan remains 86 per cent unfunded. “Bitter conflict and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in South Sudan are driving people from their homes in record numbers,” said UN High […]
‘Sexual assaults on children’ at Greek refugee camps
Children as young as seven have been sexually assaulted in official European refugee camps, the Observer has been told. The claims come as testimony emerges suggesting that some camps are so unsafe that youngsters are too terrified to leave their tents at night. Charities and human rights groups allege that children stranded in supposedly safe camps in Greece that […]
Fears 400 refugees have drowned in Mediterranean after boats capsize
Mercy Refugees House: Hundreds of refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boats capsized. Italy's President, Sergio Mattarella, said there seemed to have been "yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean". His comments followed a report by BBC Arabic quoting the Somali ambassador to Europe that 400 people had died crossing from Egypt to […]
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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 […]
