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Nearly 250 refugees dead or missing after shipwrecks off Libyan coast
The final toll of dead and missing from two refugee shipwrecks off Libya at the weekend has risen to 245, the United Nations high commission for refugees (UNHCR) has said. Tuesday’s revised estimate is partly based on horrific accounts from hospitalised survivors, and raises the death toll in the two incidents by about 50 people. The revised […]
French authorities bus hundreds of refugees out of Paris to accommodation centres across France
Hundreds of refugees have been bussed out of Paris and taken to emergency accommodation across France during a large-scale evacuation of a settlement close to the Eurostar train station. Around 350 officers were involved in moving on about 1,000 mostly Afghan and Sudanese people who had been sleeping under the bridges at Porte de la Chapelle and the surrounding […]
Injured Syrian who swam to Greece sets up charity to help other refugees
“I know what it’s like to make a new life in another country. To have no one. I am the best placed person to help,” Omar Alshakal says, speaking carefully in English, a language he is almost fluent in despite only beginning to learn last year. Alshakal is 23, but says he feels like he’s 100. It’s […]
Isam and the chocolate factory: Syrian refugees relaunch family business in Canada
when wildfires devastated the Canadian city of Fort McMurray last year, TV images of the scorched ruins and terrified families evoked painful memories for the Hadhad family. The Canadian who spent C$1.5m to rescue more than 200 Syrian refugees Read more Four years earlier, they had been forced to flee their home in Damascus by […]
Syrian refugees in Israel?
MainAll NewsMiddle EastSyrian refugees in Israel? Syrian refugees in Israel? Poll shows Israelis strongly back Trump's bombing of Syrian base after chemical attack, but are divided on accepting refugees into Israel. Contact Editor David Rosenberg, 30/04/17 20:17 Share Syrian refugees Flash 90 Israeli Jews strongly back President Donald Trump’s decision to strike a Syrian […]
EU calls for urgent protection of 23,000 child refugees left stranded in camps
Urgent action is needed to help at least 23,000 unaccompanied child refugees stranded in squalid and unsafe Greek and Italian refugee camps, an official EU audit has warned. Camp life in Greek and Italian “hotspots” – holding centers set up at migrant arrival points – is plagued by a lack of security safeguards, water, decent […]
Record number of refugees admitted to Canada in 2016, highest since 1980
Canada has admitted the largest number of refugees in a single year in nearly four decades, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The resettlement of 46,700 refugees in 2016 marks a “tremendous achievement” and a record for Canada since 1978, when the Immigration Act came into effect, the UNHCR representative […]
Faith-based refugee assistance, resettlement work focus of UN panel
The American spirit of volunteerism, particularly it’s interfaith nature, is something that impressed Abdul Saboor when he first came to the United States as a refugee from Afghanistan, where he worked with the U.S. military in its operations there. “The community is willing to help people in need,” he said during a panel on […]
Douglas Todd: Many Syrian refugees struggling after 12 months in Canada
Immigration Department evaluations of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s effort to welcome 26,000 refugees from war-torn Syria reveal high rates of unemployment, costly barriers to rental housing and difficulties shifting from Arabic to French or English. Although many refugee families are doing relatively well after their first 12 months in Canada, when they’re supported mostly by […]
EU falls short of goal for relocating refugees: Report
European countries have relocated only 10 percent of the refugees they promised to shelter by this September, figures from the European Commission showed Wednesday. According to the commission’s 11th Relocation and Resettlement Report, the total number of relocations stands at 16,340 since last March, far below its 160,000 goals for relocating refugees from Greece and […]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 […]
