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Horrific phone calls reveal how Italian Coast Guard let dozens of refugees drown
Horrific phone calls which reveal how the Italian Coast Guard let dozens of refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea in 2013, have been obtained by an Italian newspaper. In previously unheard audio, Italian authorities tell a caller from the sinking refugee ship to "call Malta," despite an Italian Navy patrol boat being miles away. As the fishing boat […]
Nearly 250 refugees dead or missing after shipwrecks off Libyan coast
The final toll of dead and missing from two refugee shipwrecks off Libya at the weekend has risen to 245, the United Nations high commission for refugees (UNHCR) has said. Tuesday’s revised estimate is partly based on horrific accounts from hospitalised survivors, and raises the death toll in the two incidents by about 50 people. The revised […]
French authorities bus hundreds of refugees out of Paris to accommodation centres across France
Hundreds of refugees have been bussed out of Paris and taken to emergency accommodation across France during a large-scale evacuation of a settlement close to the Eurostar train station. Around 350 officers were involved in moving on about 1,000 mostly Afghan and Sudanese people who had been sleeping under the bridges at Porte de la Chapelle and the surrounding […]
Injured Syrian who swam to Greece sets up charity to help other refugees
“I know what it’s like to make a new life in another country. To have no one. I am the best placed person to help,” Omar Alshakal says, speaking carefully in English, a language he is almost fluent in despite only beginning to learn last year. Alshakal is 23, but says he feels like he’s 100. It’s […]
I gave a room in my house to a refugee – now she’s like my sister
Loujean It was when girls started disappearing that my family decided it wasn’t safe for me to stay in Syria any longer. They would be stopped by police at roadblocks and wouldn’t return home. Damascus, where I was born and grew up, is one of the safest cities in Syria but the situation there is […]
East Europeans resentful about taking in Syrian refugees, Muslims less so – poll
In the majority of Eastern European countries, at least half of the population does not want to offer asylum to even a limited number of Syrian refugees, a Gallup poll has revealed, although the aversion is not as strong in predominantly Muslim nations. Syria remains one of most significant sources of people seeking asylum in […]
News comment by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Mediterranean crossings over the weekend
Since Friday, we‘ve seen over 6,000 people crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy – bringing the total this year to over 43,000. These massive arrivals and the fact that more than 1,150 people have either disappeared or lost their lives while trying to reach Europe since the beginning of the year show that rescue at […]
Syria refugees in Canada name their baby Justin Trudeau
When Muhammad and Afraa Bilan arrived in Canada in February last year, they were starting a new life in a completely new country. Originally from Damascus in Syria, they, daughter Naya and son Neal arrived as refugees in Montreal in the depths of winter. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn't there to greet them at the […]
German ‘refugee’ soldier case lays bare asylum chaos
The bizarre case of a German soldier who registered as a Syrian refugee has exposed failings in Germany's handling of a mass influx of over a million asylum-seekers since 2015. Posing as a Damascus fruit seller, army lieutenant Franco Albrecht, 28, had managed to gain asylum in his home country, obtaining a space in a […]
The biggest group of current refugees in the US? Christians from Myanmar.
But a few years back, that dream dimmed a bit inside a Wal-Mart in upstate New York. The 26-year-old was working there as a sales associate — one of three jobs he was grinding out while starting his new life in America. Some customer needed help hunting down an item. Kaw Hser, new to the […]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 […]
