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Hungary & Poland must take in refugees or face Brussels’ action – EU Commission
The European Commission has reiterated its attempt to persuade Poland and Hungary to take in asylum seekers under the EU migration scheme. If the two countries refuse to cooperate, Brussels will use “all powers” in response, it said in a statement. Warsaw and Budapest have opposed the refugee resettlement quotas since the very outset of […]
Manus refugees not accepted by US to remain in PNG, Dutton says
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says refugees on Manus Island who are not accepted by the United States will remain in Papua New Guinea. Australia has a deal with the US to take refugees from Australia's offshore facilities but there is no guarantee how many it will accept. Mr Dutton said the former Labor government struck […]
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Can’t Explain Trump’s Hypocrisy On Syrian Refugees
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Sunday struggled to justify the hypocrisy between President Donald Trump’s claimed humanitarian reason for Syrian airstrikes, and his opposition to admitting Syrian refugees, many of whom are children. Haley, asked to reconcile Trump’s vehement opposition to refugees with his explanation that he ordered last week’s attack after seeing pictures of “beautiful babies” killed in a chemical […]
Improve how people see refugees, AMs tell ministers
Ministers should try to improve people's views of refugees and asylum seekers, a group of AMs has said. The communities committee wants a publicity campaign like one in Scotland which encourages people to "have a cup of tea with a refugee". Committee chairman John Griffiths said there was a misconception refugee get "better provision" than […]
U.N. Calls on Gulf Countries to Do More to Help Syrian Refugees
A senior United Nations refugee official on Sunday called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of civil war, saying she saw little sign that the crisis would end anytime soon. Speaking during a visit to Kuwait to sign a $10 million aid agreement for Syrian refugees in […]
4 Day-Old Baby Girl Among 480 Migrants And Refugees Rescued In Mediterranean
A four-day-old baby was one of over 480 migrants rescued by humanitarian ships on Saturday during search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean Sea. The baby was traveling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants from North and Central Africa, Sri Lanka and Yemen and seen drifting some 22 nautical miles north of […]
IGAD Leaders to Help Send Refugees Back Home
The leaders of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development regional grouping, meeting in Nairobi Saturday, agreed to facilitate the voluntary return of refugees and address the political and security situation in Somalia. Eight leaders from eastern Africa met in Nairobi to discuss the situation of Somali refugees in the region. The meeting was held two months […]
Australia close to resettling 12,000 Syrian refugees
Australia is close to resettling the 12,000 refugees from the war in Syria and Iraq it promised to urgently take more than a year ago, an official said Wednesday. All 12,000 have been issued visas and more than 10,000 have already been brought from Middle Eastern refugee camps to Australia, Immigration and Border Protection Minister […]
Integration still a challenge for Syrian refugees one year later: researchers
More than a year after landing in Canada, many Syrian refugees are still having trouble integrating, according to government data and researchers who have studied the issue. In comparison to government-sponsored refugees, privately sponsored newcomers tend to fare much better in the short term in language acquisition and job integration, Dawn Edlund of Immigration, Refugees […]
Iran’s ‘exemplary’ refugee resettlement efforts praised by UN
Iran, one of the states targeted by Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, is a country from which the US could learn a lot on the resettlement of refugees, the UN has said. The Soviet War in Afghanistan displaced six million people to neighbouring Iran and Pakistan in 1979. Almost four decades later, the Tehran government still shelters around one […]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 […]
