Brussels agrees to rehouse up to 1,500 children as conditions in Greek camps deteriorate Daniel Boffey in Brussels Mon 9 Mar 2020 Refugees and migrants near the Turkish-Greek border. Photograph: […]
I visited Torrington, the village apparently ‘furious’ that 70 Syrian migrants moved there, and found out the truth Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Last week I was in Torrington, North Devon, the village that’s been in the news because local people organised a massive collection of clothes and toys, for Syrian […]
YUNUS PAKSOY@yunuspaksoy ISTANBUL Syrian children as they wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia in September 2015. More than 10,000 missing innocent child victims of conflicts around the world, including the Syrian civil war and the instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, are […]
OCT 20, 2016 A teenager in a transition center at Davos awaiting asylum earlier this year (Keystone) Some 20 youths who left their home country as political refugees without their parents gained an audience – and pushed for more latitude and rights – at the federal parliament building with […]
MINORS NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children JUN 16, 2016 – 16:58 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen, unless the law applicable to the child states otherwise. The age of majority in Switzerland […]
Refuge cities: The sympathy of last autumn towards asylum-seeking minors in the Gothenburg suburb of Mölndal has been drowned out by anger and suspicion – but the city is working […]