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Rohingya Community Leaders Visited Vashan Char Island – Reports CIC
Staff Reporter Abul kalam of Camp 16 told to our correspondence that Rohingya Community Members actually want to go back to Myanmar, not to a island which is in the middle of bay of Bengal. It is really very dangerous during monsoon season. Recently, some leaders from different camps went to see the location whether […]
Struggles of LGBTQ refugees highlighted in new photo series
Awarding-winning photographer Steven Laxton and New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center recently launched “Free to Be Me,” a photo and essay series featuring the stories of 20 LGBTQ refugees living in the Unites States. Those profiled in the series have fled their homes out of fear of being persecuted because of their sexual orientation or […]
Lisbon’s first Syrian restaurant a welcome sign for refugees
Clients sit outside the Syrian refugees-owned restaurant ‘Mezze’ in Lisbon on September 19, 2017. Owned by Syrian refugees Fatima and her 2 daughters and son, the Mezze restaurant was immediately successful since its opening in Lisbon in September 2017, is a rare example of successful integration into a country with a very proactive hosting policy. […]
‘I lost everything – then Britain gave me a life’: Refugees who risked it all to flee war-torn homelands tell their stories
They came across in packed boats, some were chased out of their homes by machine-gun-wielding men others and another sent here by his mom when he was just six. Now refugees have described escaping their war-torn countries to find safety and freedom on British soil. The British Red Cross traveled up and down the country during Refugee […]
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 […]
Saad al-Hariri: Lebanon has become a big refugee camp
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has warned that his country is close to "breaking point" due to strains of hosting more than one million Syrian refugees, fearing that unrest could escalate from tensions between refugees and local communities. Speaking to foreign media on Friday, Hariri said: "Today if you go around most of the host […]
‘We reached our limits’: Greece to stop taking back refugees – migration minister
Greece will cease taking back refugees under the controversial Dublin Regulation, as the country’s limited capacities to host people are already on the brink of collapse, the Greek migration minister announced in an interview. As the European Commission pressures Athens to re-implement the Dublin Regulation – stipulating that refugees can be returned to the first […]
Thousands protest in London against Trump’s refugee ban
Several thousand people demonstrated outside the U.S. embassy in London on Saturday against President Donald Trump and his temporary ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Protesters held black banners with blood stains bearing slogans such as "No to Trump. No to War" and "Trump: Special Relationship? Just […]
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 […]Recent Posts
Speaking at the UN General Assembly Saturday, Bangladesh’s prime minister reiterated her call for the global community to actively step up to solve the Rohingya issue and the crisis it has caused in Bangladesh. “More than three years have been passed but not a single Rohingya could be repatriated. The Rohingya crisis was created by […]
