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EU migrant deal at risk? Greek judges rule Turkey ‘unsafe’ for refugees
reek judges have ruled that a Syrian asylum seeker should not be sent back to Turkey because it is not safe. Amnesty International campaigners say the decision throws the EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt. They say migrants in Turkey do not have basic human rights and many are at risk of being taken to […]
Charity Save the Children urges ‘new deal’ for child refugees
Save the Children is calling for greater international commitment to ensure child refugees remain in school. The charity's new report, A New Deal for Refugees, says no child should be out of school for more than a month. It comes as countries struggle to respond to a huge displacement of people fleeing conflict and […]
Refugees in Greece warn of suicides over EU-Turkey deal
Syrians and Afghans threatened with deportation from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios have said they would rather take their own lives than be expelled from the EU under its migration deal with Turkey. On Monday, 202 migrants were forcibly returned from Lesbos and Chios to the Turkish coast under the landmark deal aimed at halting “irregular” […]
Migrant crisis: EU plans penalties for refusing asylum seekers
The European Commission has proposed reforms to EU asylum rules that would see stiff financial penalties imposed on countries refusing to take their share of asylum seekers. The bloc's executive body is planning a sanction of €250,000 (£200,000; $290,000) per person. The Commission wants changes made to an asylum system which has buckled amid an […]
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 […]
Turkey now the largest of host of refugees: UNDP
Mercy Refugees House: The humanitarian crisis in Turkey's southern neighborhood has pushed over 2 million people, mostly from Syria, to relocate from their home countries to Turkey, but "we haven't seen the worst," said Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), outlining her expectation that more people will choose Turkey […]
‘Refugees are a challenge to all:’ Turkish Development Min.
Turkey's Development Minister says support for refugees should come from all nations Turkey has not had sufficient international support in caring for refugees, Turkish Development Minister Cevdet Yilmaz said on Tuesday. Speaking at a conference with the chief director of the United Nations Development Program in Ankara, Yilmaz said that the financial […]
Mediterranean Graveyard: What you should know about illegal migrant voyages
Hundreds of people were feared dead after a ship crowded with migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya on April 19, as authorities described a grisly scene of bodies floating and submerging in the warm waters. The fatal shipwreck may prove to be the Mediterranean's deadliest migrant disaster ever and is […]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 […]
