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One year ago, Angela Merkel dared to stand up for refugees in Europe. Who else even tried?
t was an innocuous-sounding statement via Twitter that would come to rock Europe. Issued in the dead of night by Germany’s Office for Migration and Refugees, it simply announced: “We are at present largely no longer enforcing #Dublin procedures for Syrian citizens.” When the news sunk in that Germany was no longer going to deport Syrian migrants […]
Gay Syrian refugee found beheaded in Istanbul amid concerns Turkey does not protect EU asylum seekers
Gay Syrian refugee found beheaded in Istanbul amid concerns Turkey does not protect EU asylum seekers gay Syrian refugee found beheaded in Istanbul had previously been kidnapped and raped, his friends said. Muhammed Wisam Sankari, known to his friends as Wisam, vanished after leaving his house in the district of Aksaray on July 23. He was found […]
Angela Merkel defends Germany’s refugee policy after attacks
Angela Merkel defends Germany's refugee policy after attacks Angela Merkel has delivered a staunch defence of her open-door policy towards refugees, insisting she feels no guilt over a series of violent attacks in Germany and was right to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees to arrive last summer. “A rejection of the humanitarian […]
Shocking video shows Turkish men mocking Syrian boy in a playground and telling him a bomber is about to launch an airstrike right above him
A Syrian boy was left terrified after being warned that a bomber was about to launch an airstrike above him – only to be told afterwards that it was an April Fool's prank. A video shows the little boy sitting in a playground in Istanbul when he is approached by a man who alerts that him there […]
What Syrian refugees want Donald Trump to know
Syrian refugees just arriving in the United States will likely not be watching the Republican or Democratic conventions or the political ups and downs of the campaign. They are too busy learning to speak English and beginning their new life in America. However, many, refugees are well aware of the positions that presidential candidate Donald […]
Ten women die in refugee boat accident off Libyan coast
Ten women have died in a new migrant boat accident off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian authorities said, as they began the gruesome task of removing hundreds of corpses from another salvaged wreck. The women were found dead in the bottom of a partially submerged dinghy, said Italian coastguard spokesman Captain […]
EU court rules undocumented refugees cannot be jailed
The European Court of Justice says EU rules prevent imprisonment of refugees crossing into Schengen area. EU countries cannot imprison undocumented refugees and migrants for entering the Schengen area, the bloc's top court ruled on Tuesday. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has said that European Union rules prevent the jailing of non-EU refugees […]
EU migrant deal at risk? Greek judges rule Turkey ‘unsafe’ for refugees
reek judges have ruled that a Syrian asylum seeker should not be sent back to Turkey because it is not safe. Amnesty International campaigners say the decision throws the EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt. They say migrants in Turkey do not have basic human rights and many are at risk of being taken to […]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 […]
