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Two Malian refugees die in fire at farm workers’ camp in Italy
Two refugees from Mali have died after a fire broke out at a camp for farm workers in the southern Italian region of Puglia, two days after it had been ordered to be cleared. Investigators said they had not ruled out arson as a possible cause of the blaze, which consumed sections of a shantytown known as […]
Hungarian border guards ‘taking selfies with beaten migrants’ as crackdown against refugees intensifies
“When they beat us, they were laughing with each other. The policemen, when they beat us, they are taking selfies with us.” This account given by Shahid Khan, a Pakistani asylum seeker, is among countless reports of abuse by police guarding Hungary’s heavily reinforced borders. He said he was attacked before being photographed and then chased […]
‘Control’ is the new core of Germany’s refugee policy
On March 2 and 3, German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Egypt and Tunisia. Concerns about migration and refugees will top the agenda of her talks with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. As she prepares for crucial elections this September, for many voters Merkel's tenure is associated with the […]
Welcome Refugees, Churches Say in a Public Challenge to Trump
The fight against President Trump’s executive orders to turn away refugees, deport undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the Mexican border is about to escalate in many American churches. A broad network of 37 Protestant and Orthodox Christian denominations will announce on Friday a campaign to mobilize its congregants — some 30 million Americans in all […]
Stateless Rohingya Refugees Sucked Into Booming Bangladesh Drug Trade
Rohingya Muslim refugee Ali Hasan is desperately looking for a bride for his 14-year-old son, jailed last year in Bangladesh for carrying the popular drug ya ba. He hopes the girl's family would pay the $620 needed for Mohammed Hasan's bail as dowry. Police arrested Mohammed with 5,000 pills of ya ba, as methamphetamine is […]
Trump Administration Weighs Increased Scrutiny Of Refugees’ Social Media
As President Trump prepares a new executive order on vetting refugees and immigrants, one idea keeps cropping up: checking the social media accounts of those coming to the U.S. In fact, such a program was begun under the Obama administration more than a year ago on a limited basis and is likely to be expanded. […]
A Haven for Europe’s Newest Refugees
The Norwegian Refugee Council is providing apartments for refugees stranded in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, giving them a chance at regaining a normal life. When war came to the Syrian town of Kobani, the widow Shamza Misto fled with six of her eight children across the border to Turkey and then to […]
Assad backs Trump ‘Muslim Ban’, says Syrian refugees ‘terrorists
Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad said US President Donald Trump’s ban on Syrians entering the United States targeted terrorists, not the Syrian people, appearing to defend the logic of the measure in an interview broadcast today. Trump last month issued an executive order, since suspended by a US district judge, that temporarily barred travellers from seven […]
Greensboro toddler mauled by pit bulls son of Syrian refugees; GoFundMe started
The toddler mauled in a pit bull attack Tuesday morning is the son of Syrian refugees who moved here in August. A male and female pit bull on Valley View Street attacked the 19-month-old boy about 9:10 a.m. Tuesday, police said. A responding Greensboro police officer shot the male pit bull. Animal control captured the […]
Merkel Deports More Refugees While Blasting Trump’s Refugee Ban
Donald Trump is not the only head of state trying to protect against the possibility that refugees may also be terrorists. He’s just the most open about it. In an outburst of brazen hypocrisy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel blasted President Trump’s temporary travel ban, saying it is “not justified to put people from a specific […]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 […]
