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Trump to Sign Orders Limiting Immigration, Refugees
President Donald Trump is poised to sign executive orders as soon as Wednesday that would limit immigration and the flow of refugees into the United States, restricting access from some predominantly Islamic countries, according to media reports. Citing congressional aides and immigration experts, Reuters initially reported Tuesday that Trump plans to sign orders Wednesday at the Department […]
UN Launches New Plan to Ease Plight of Refugees, Migrants in Europe
The U.N. refugee agency, International Organization for Migration and 72 other partners are appealing for $691 million to implement a new plan to relocate and help ease the plight of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants in Europe this year. More than 1.3 million refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of […]
Syrian refugee family to be given home inside London synagogue
A London synagogue is raising funds to convert part of its premises to accommodate a refugee family from Syria. The South London Liberal Synagogue, in Streatham, is planning to make a two-bedroom flat available to a family being resettled in the borough of Lambeth. It needs to raise £50,000 to refurbish a disused caretaker’s flat in the […]
‘Deplorable’: Disabled refugees ‘overlooked’ and ‘underserved’ in Greece – HRW
Disabled refugees and migrants are not identified, and receive neither the medical assistance they require nor access to essential facilities like toilets, showers, and food, according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report was based on 40 interviews with refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants, and uncovered quite a few issues of concern over the […]
UK failing Syrian refugees who survived torture, say MPs
Few receive specialist help they need, report finds, while aim of resettling 20,000 vulnerable refugees by 2020 remains a challenge Only a handful of the 1,000 survivors of torture or violence who have arrived in Britain under the government’s Syrian vulnerable refugee resettlement programme have received specialist help, charities have told MPs. MPs on the […]
MIGRANT CAMP BLAZE: ‘Refugees set light to mattress’ in huge fire
FIVE people have been arrested after a huge blaze broke out at a refugee centre in Germany that houses hundreds of migrants. Around 80 firefighters and police officers rushed to the scene at Hoevelhof-Staumuhle refugee facility in North Rhine-Westphalia at around 3.30pm yesterday afternoon. Pictures posted on social media showed thick, black smoke billowing from a one-storey […]
The Canadian who spent C$1.5m to rescue more than 200 Syrian refugees
On a recent snowy Saturday, Jim Estill went knocking on his neighbours’ doors, offering to shovel snow from walkways and driveways for cash. Behind him stood a handful of Syrian refugees, newly arrived to the Canadian city of Guelph, in south-western Ontario. Estill, the CEO of multimillion-dollar appliance company Danby, was acting as the group’s […]
Lack of jobs, housing: why some of Canada’s Syrian refugees are relocating
A year ago this December, the first wave of Syrian refugees to Canada arrived in their new homes across the country. But for some, home is still another big move away. In what's being called a second migration, many refugees from Syria are packing up their lives once again in an effort to find work, […]
Actor Kal Penn donates MasterChef prize to Palestinian refugees
Penn, movie star and former White House official, also called on his Twitter followers to donate to UNRWA Actor Kal Penn has donated his $25,000 prize for winning MasterChef Showdown to the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA. But supporters of the Palestinian cause say that the movie star also made a priceless contribution to the […]
Refugees Resettled In Chicago Help Make Its Most Famous Cheesecake
“People who come as refugees have great skills,” says Marc Schulman, the president of Eli’s Cheesecake, which has sold cheesecakes and other baked desserts since 1980. One-third of adult refugees arriving in the U.S. have college degrees, according to the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, a think tank that tracks the movement of people worldwide. […]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 […]
