Scars of Aceh conflict open local hearts to Rohingya pligh
This handout photo taken and received from the Indonesian police on December 28, 2021 shows officers preparing to send supplies to Rohingya refugees aboard a wooden vessel off the coast […]
2021 challenges for aid agencies
International Geneva It’s the last newsletter, and the last Inside Geneva podcast, of the year, and what better people to talk to than the humanitarian community?This content was published on […]
International pressure sees Indonesia allow more than 100 Rohingya refugees to land
Posted 1h ago Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleabc.net.au/news/indonesia-allows-100-rohingya-refugees-to-land/100733328COPY LINKSHARE Indonesia’s navy has rescued more than 100 Rohingya asylum seekers who had been adrift on a sinking […]
Muslims in Europe: The Construction of a “Problem”
Start Muslims in Europe: The Construction of a “Problem”HUMANITIES SOCIOLOGY Article from the book The Search for Europe: Contrasting Approaches Culture | Europe | Integration | ReligionBichara Khader Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium Some 25 million Muslims live […]
Switzerland. Asylum requests expected to rise in 2022
The outgoing head of Switzerland’s migration secretariat says the country should see around 15,000 applications for asylum next year, up from 14,500 lodged in 2021, as more migrants attempt to […]
Palestinians drown at sea while escaping death under Gaza’s siege
Yahya Barbakh recounts the harrowing journey to reach Europe over the Mediterranean that ended in the death of his companions A photo of a Palestinian who drowned in the Mediterranean […]
EU is in denial on rising migrant deaths
RANVIR S. NAYAR December 28, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/vtune More than 160 migrants died when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya this month as they were trying to […]
2021 in Review: Why worldwide refugee flows surged again despite the pandemic
NextShort Url https://arab.news/4tnvx JONATHAN GORNALL December 28, 2021 In the first 11 months of 2021, some 14,000 migrants had already come to Europe — more than in the whole of […]
Ahmadi immigrants share their healing journeys after traumas endured in Pakistan
These two Ahmadis say they migrated from Pakistan to Canada after facing life-threatening ordeals. BY ORUJ CHAUDHRYDECEMBER 24, 2021 The partition of Pakistan from India in 1947 created an independent state self-governed […]
“Mama, Pray for Us”A Chronicle of Refugee Deaths along the Border Between Poland and Belarus
An Iraqi mother, a football fan from Yemen, a teenager from Syria: At least 17 people have died since September in the border area between Belarus and Poland. Here are […]
Migration is key issue facing Middle East
KERRY BOYD ANDERSON December 20, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/m5uu5 Among the issues that will shape the Middle East in 2022 is migration. While the level of violence in several conflicts […]
Rohingya refugee island is a prison in all but name DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM December 19, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/y6bsm A Bangladesh government plan to relocate some Rohingya refugees from the […]
No room at the inn. Why have Danes turned against immigration?
Many fear that refugees are a drain on their welfare state https://b6a116b1f2ebb241e4c65c347c2d91d3.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.htmlhttps://b6a116b1f2ebb241e4c65c347c2d91d3.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.htmlDec 18th 2021 COPENHAGEN Mjolnerparken, a housing project in Copenhagen’s multi-ethnic Norrebro district, is pleasantly landscaped and dotted with sports […]
The trip could have killed them. But people fleeing economic wreckage in the Middle East say they’d do it 100 times over
By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Updated 0808 GMT (1608 HKT) December 12, 2021 (CNN)Four-year-old Azhi hobbles across a makeshift migrant center on the Polish-Belarusian border. Grabbing his mother’s hand for support, he carefully […]
Where should the Muslims migrate: German coalition partner FDP wants more migrants for labor market
BY GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA DEC 11, 2021 – 2:29 PM GMT+3 The Free Democrats (FDP), the smallest member of Germany’s nascent coalition government, announced its support for a […]
Angela Merkel, the invisible European
The legacy of Europe’s most powerful leader is already fading away https://e7661fd1514ba90554e54fb20e16dabf.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.htmlDec 11th 2021 Exceptions prove who rules. In the summer of 2015 Angela Merkel suspended the eu’s asylum rules and allowed […]
Finding Afghanistan’s exiled women MPs
By Tom DonkinBBC 100 Women Published 5 hours ago Afghanistan’s women MPs fled for their lives when the Taliban took power – with only nine of 69 women MPs remaining, […]
It is time for the ICC to address crimes against asylum seekers
Opinions|Migration Due to botched EU migration policies, the Mediterranean has become the scene of continuous abuse and death of refugees. This needs to stop. Mark KerstenConsultant at the Wayamo Foundation […]
Asylum seeker stuck in Croydon hotel with hundreds of refugees says it’s ‘really hard to survive’
He is one of hundreds of refugees living in Croydon hotels ByTara O’Connor Local Democracy Reporter 13:48, 29 NOV 2021 An asylum seeker stuck in a Croydon hotel has said […]
Pope Francis arrives in Cyprus for landmark trip
AFP , Thursday 2 Dec 2021 Pope Francis arrived on the divided island of Cyprus on Thursday as part of a landmark trip to push two of his priorities: the plight […]