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UN forum in Paris to spotlight mobile learning for refugees and displaced persons
Education experts and government officials will gather at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 20 to 24 March, to discuss ways of expanding the use of mobile technologies to “reach people where they are” and improve education opportunities for refugees and displaced persons and others in emergency […]
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 […]
Angela Merkel Gave An Impassioned Plea For Refugees. Trump Ignored Her.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed her commitment to refugees during a press conference held after her meeting with President Donald Trump, who has actively fought to keep Syrian refugees out of the U.S. He totally dodged the topic in his response. “Immigration has to be worked on, but this has to be done by looking at […]
WANT TO SPONSOR REFUGEES? FREE WORKSHOPS SHOW PEOPLE HOW
Five months ago, Yellowknife welcomed the Alhajy family to the community, the first Syrian refugee family to arrive in the territory’s capital since the war began over five years ago. The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program is putting on the workshops in the city, providing information and discussion about Canada’s Private Refugee Sponsorship Program. The sessions will tackle the application […]
Syrian refugee community growing, and so is support from Fresno’s faithful
Watching: http://www.fresnobee.com/living/religion/article136349923.html A group of Syrian refugees and Christian churchgoers in Fresno met last year with a simple greeting: “Peace be upon you.” The members of Wesley United Methodist Church taught themselves how to say it in Arabic during a Sunday service before walking across their parking lot after church to introduce themselves to their new neighbors […]
Tennessee sues federal government over refugees
Tennessee became the first state in the nation on Monday to sue the federal government over refugee resettlement on the grounds of the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of several state lawmakers Monday morning in the western district of Tennessee, alleges that the federal government has violated the 10th Amendment, which […]
Starbucks hasn’t seen ‘substantive impact’ since vowing to hire refugees
Starbucks released a letter from a market research firm that refutes that the coffee giant’s brand perception dropped after the company vowed to hire 10,000 refugees in response to President Trump’s travel ban order. The market research firm, Kantar Millward Brown, has worked with Starbucks since 2013 to commission brand perception insights on behalf of the coffee chain. The […]
Germany ‘spent more than €20bn on refugees in 2016’ as crisis outstrips state budgets
German states spent more than €20bn (£17.5bn) on refugees in 2016, government figures have indicated as Angela Merkel continues to come under pressure for her policy on migration. Statistics seen by The Independent for the states of Bavaria, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse and Berlin show that the cost of housing and integrating asylum seekers has far outstripped official predictions. The Bundestag’s statistics […]
UN human rights chief attacks Europe’s ‘chilling indifference’ to refugees as 2017 sees record deaths
The UN’s human rights chief has attacked the “chilling indifference” to the deaths of thousands of refugees shown by European leaders as the crackdown continues across the continent. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that although “heroic efforts” are underway to save lives in the Mediterranean, governments are turning their backs on those […]
Calais mayor’s ‘ban’ on food aid to refugees slammed
Human rights organisations on Friday expressed outrage after the right-wing mayor of Calais signed an order that could stop some refugees from receiving food from aid groups. A decree published a day earlier banned gatherings at the site of the former "jungle" refugee camp, with the Calais authority saying that they spurred ethnic tensions and conflict between rival […]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 […]
