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80 refugees to be accommodated in Co Roscommon hotel
There has been a mixed reaction to the news that 80 refugees will be located at a hotel in Ballaghaderreen in Co Roscommon. Several local people have criticised the Department of Justice, saying there was no consultation with the local community and no information until the announcement yesterday. One local businessman said while he would […]
The Canadian who spent C$1.5m to rescue more than 200 Syrian refugees
On a recent snowy Saturday, Jim Estill went knocking on his neighbours’ doors, offering to shovel snow from walkways and driveways for cash. Behind him stood a handful of Syrian refugees, newly arrived to the Canadian city of Guelph, in south-western Ontario. Estill, the CEO of multimillion-dollar appliance company Danby, was acting as the group’s […]
Lack of jobs, housing: why some of Canada’s Syrian refugees are relocating
A year ago this December, the first wave of Syrian refugees to Canada arrived in their new homes across the country. But for some, home is still another big move away. In what's being called a second migration, many refugees from Syria are packing up their lives once again in an effort to find work, […]
Actor Kal Penn donates MasterChef prize to Palestinian refugees
Penn, movie star and former White House official, also called on his Twitter followers to donate to UNRWA Actor Kal Penn has donated his $25,000 prize for winning MasterChef Showdown to the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA. But supporters of the Palestinian cause say that the movie star also made a priceless contribution to the […]
Refugees Resettled In Chicago Help Make Its Most Famous Cheesecake
“People who come as refugees have great skills,” says Marc Schulman, the president of Eli’s Cheesecake, which has sold cheesecakes and other baked desserts since 1980. One-third of adult refugees arriving in the U.S. have college degrees, according to the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, a think tank that tracks the movement of people worldwide. […]
Syrian refugee who asked ISIS for €180,000 for bombings in Europe detained in Germany
The 38-year old man was detained early Saturday by German special forces in his flat in the city of Saarbrucken in the Federal State of Saarland. Official confirmation of the operation and further details emerged only on Monday. The Syrian refugee was arrested after Saarland police received a tip off from the Federal Criminal police. According […]
German Development Minister: ‘Eight to Ten Million Refugees Are Still on the Way’
This is impossible for Germany — and Europe as a whole — to deal with: Development Minister Gerd Müller warned that the biggest refugee movements to Europe are still to come. He said that only 10% of the migrants from the chaos in Iraq and Syria have reached Europe so far: "Eight to ten million […]
Ailing Vermont Town Pins Hopes on Mideast Refugees
They hustled into the church on a biting winter evening, unburdened themselves of scarves and gloves, and settled into pews to sound out words in Arabic. “Ahlan fii Rutland,” said Fran Knapp, a retiree who lives about 20 minutes away, one of two or three dozen people who have attended a class here on rudimentary […]
Lost at sea: The search for missing refugees
The last time Gholam saw his wife and two children was in the brief moment before a high wave split their boat in half and catapulted the dozens of people on board towards the sea. In the chaos of October 16, 2015, Gholam, an Afghan refugee from Kabul, held his eldest son's head above water […]
How are Australia’s Syrian refugees coping?
Australia has resettled about half of the 12,000 refugees it agreed to take in over the past 13 months from the conflict in Syria, but how are they adapting to life in their new country? It is a year since Iymen Baerli, a refugee from Syria, arrived in Sydney with his wife and three young children. Within […]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 […]
