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Budget expected to expand sponsorship program for refugees – at cost of $40,000 each
Refugees will be able to come to Australia for a fee of almost $40,000 under a private sponsorship program for community organizations, individuals, and businesses expected to be expanded in next week’s budget. The Turnbull government is planning to double the places in the Community Proposal Pilot to 1,000, with a fee of $19,000 and a “welfare bond” […]
Trump compares refugees to snakes
The U.S. will take a decision on its continuation in the Paris climate treaty within the next two weeks, President Donald Trump said on Saturday, naming China, Russia, and India for allegedly contributing nothing under the treaty. During the campaign, Mr. Trump had promised to withdraw from the treaty, but senior officials of his administration […]
Syrian refugees in Israel?
MainAll NewsMiddle EastSyrian refugees in Israel? Syrian refugees in Israel? Poll shows Israelis strongly back Trump's bombing of Syrian base after chemical attack, but are divided on accepting refugees into Israel. Contact Editor David Rosenberg, 30/04/17 20:17 Share Syrian refugees Flash 90 Israeli Jews strongly back President Donald Trump’s decision to strike a Syrian […]
Germany’s Merkel to press Saudi Arabia on refugees’ rights
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, where she is expected to press royals on a number of sensitive issues, including taking in refugees, while also boosting important business ties in her first visit to the country in seven years. Merkel met King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah and […]
IKEA creates a pathway for refugees to join its supply chain
Swedish furniture giant IKEA seems to take the global refugee crisis personally. In 2015, the company partnered with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to design modular housing for the 2.6 million long-term refugee camp inhabitants globally. Now, it wants to help those refugees make a living while also helping its own future business. A social entrepreneurship initiative this summer in Jordan will train refugees […]
Record number of refugees admitted to Canada in 2016, highest since 1980
Canada has admitted the largest number of refugees in a single year in nearly four decades, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The resettlement of 46,700 refugees in 2016 marks a “tremendous achievement” and a record for Canada since 1978, when the Immigration Act came into effect, the UNHCR representative […]
Charities saving refugees in the Mediterranean are ‘colluding’ with smugglers, Italian prosecutor claims
An Italian prosecutor has said that he has evidence that charities helping refugees and migrants cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe safely are “colluding” with people smugglers. Speaking to Italy’s La Stampa, Sicily-based Carmelo Zuccaro told the paper: “We have evidence that there are direct contacts between certain NGOs and people traffickers in Libya.” Charities were making telephone […]
Western students step into a refugees’ shoes
Students from Missouri Western State University and other visitors participated in a panel discussion Wednesday night that highlighted a refugee’s perspective and the struggles they face. The six panelists included two local refugee resettlement leaders, two Western faculty members, and two former refugees. Deihu Atem, a U.S. citizen who is from South Sudan, lived in […]
Refugees free UN staff held hostage in DRC camp
The United Nations says 16 staff members held hostage at a UN camp in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been released unharmed. The UN peacekeeping department said in a statement late on Tuesday that "the camp is quiet and under full control" of its peacekeepers. Unarmed South Sudanese refugees took the staff members […]
Douglas Todd: Many Syrian refugees struggling after 12 months in Canada
Immigration Department evaluations of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s effort to welcome 26,000 refugees from war-torn Syria reveal high rates of unemployment, costly barriers to rental housing and difficulties shifting from Arabic to French or English. Although many refugee families are doing relatively well after their first 12 months in Canada, when they’re supported mostly by […]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 […]
