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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 […]
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 […]
Syrian refugees see glimmer of hope in Trump’s policy shift
For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again. Some cheered the U.S. cruise missiles that hit an air base in central Syria — the […]
No Way Home- A Syrian family seeking asylum gets an answer
Illham Alarabi is one of those indomitable women who takes everything in stride. The kind of unflappable mother who can single-handedly extract her oldest son from a squabble with a bully, soothe the teething pains of another and bathe a baby, all while supper simmers on the stove. Traveling 1,500 miles from her bombed-out village near […]
Canadian entrepreneur invests millions in Syrian refugees
Jim Estill may have helped to resettle 58 refugee families in the Canadian city of Guelph, but he insists he has not done anything remarkable. Instead, the entrepreneur defers praise to the people he works with. “I am just really good at shaking hands,” he says, smiling. A life-long entrepreneur and now CEO of an […]
NGOs criticise Turkey-EU deal on refugees
A Turkey-European deal to stop the flow of refugees into Europe has made seeking refuge in the continent "mission impossible" as vulnerable people stuck in camps in Greece suffer serious mental illnesses, according to a number of charities. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Oxfam said on Thursday that the deal exposed refugees to risk […]
Merkel, Rutte agreed refugee quota in deal with Turkey, did not tell other EU leaders
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte secretly agreed to accept hundreds of thousands of refugees from Turkey each year as part of an EU-Turkey deal but did not inform other EU leaders, a book by a German journalist says. The two European leaders met with then Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu […]
Canada Is Expecting Even More Refugees to Come From the U.S
Since President Donald Trump's surprise election, some stateless U.S. migrants are choosing arrest by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police over risking deportation in America. Situations like this will become increasingly common, says Canadian immigration lawyer Richard Kurland in an interview with CBC News Thursday. And thousands will be seeking refugee status, he said. According to NPR, the Mounties can only […]
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 […]
Refugees to U.S., Michigan: Some facts
Refugees seeking resettlement in the U.S. must get a referral, usually from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or sometimes from a U.S. embassy or a nongovernmental organization in which employees have been trained to handle refugee referrals. In some cases, such as those of people who seek to be reunited with close relatives […]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 […]
