EU agency: More Iranian, Turkish citizens seeking asylum
AP December 11, 2018 3,170 Iranians applied for asylum in the EU in October, the highest number for more than two years October saw a record 2,880 asylum […]
Photography: ‘We recreate borders in people’s minds’
go to source for all the photos ! https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/photography_-we-recreate-borders-in-people-s-minds-/44607960 Dec 10, 2018 The photographer Alberto Campi roamed the migrant trails to meet the people who have come to Europe seeking […]
UN seeks $5.5b to help countries hosting Syria refugees
By AFP – Dec 11,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugee children ride their bicycles at Azraq refugee camp, near Al Azraq city, Jordan, December 8 (Reuters photo) AMMAN — The United […]
How can we improve the integration of foreigners in Bratislava?
Municipalities recognise there is a lack of outreach on the part of administrators to foreigners, but the problem goes both ways. Several foreigners attended the latest round table hosted by […]
We’ve just been found guilty for stopping a deportation flight – but it should have been the Home Office in the dock, not us
Our obstruction of the plane was wholly peaceful. It’s the Home Office’s brutal, secretive and barely legal practice of mass deportation flights that is putting people in danger Melanie Strickland […]
Why do we need the Global Compact for Migration?
By Simon Bradley Dec 10, 2018 – 11:00 United Nations member states are meeting in Morocco on Monday to formally adopt an international agreement that promises a better, more coordinated […]
UN launches aid delivery from Jordan to 650,000 Syrians
AFP December 09, 2018 Known as Jaber on the Jordanian side and Nassib in Syria, the crossing is a key Middle East trade route Reopening in October after […]
Italian priests vow to open church doors to evictees from immigration centres
‘Salvini decree’ threatens to make thousands not eligible for refugee status homeless Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo @lorenzo_tondo Mon 10 Dec 2018 Demonstrators in Rome protest against the ‘Salvini decree’ in […]
Syrian refugees: Returning?
Dec 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Fares Braizat Jordan and the international community should embrace having to deal with over 50 per cent of Syrian refugees in Jordan who will […]
Global compact on refugees: Switzerland to vote in favour of global compact on refugees
Dec 7, 2018 – 20:57 The pact envisages reducing the pressure on host countries like Uganda, Lebanon, Turkey and Bangladesh. (Keystone) The Swiss Federal Council has approved voting in favour […]
‘We can’t go anywhere’ – Myanmar closes Rohingya camps but ‘entrenches segregation’
Dec 6, 2018 http://www.swissinfo.ch By Thu Thu Aung and Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) – As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya […]
Why so many nations are suddenly following Trump out of the proposed U.N. migration pact
By Rick Noack December 4, 2018 When President Trump pulled out of discussions of a U.N. migration pact almost exactly one year ago, there was an immediate international […]
UNICEF warns of ‘dire’ winter risks for 1 million children in Middle East and North Africa
AFP November 27, 2018 The UN agency said it was facing a $33-million funding gap for assistance to children across the region this winter Cold and rainy weather would […]
Key facts about the migrant and refugee caravans making their way to the USA
16 November 2018, Groups of families, including many young people and small children escaping violence, poverty and persecution in Central America, are not a new phenomenon. For several years, people […]
USA: 1,834 Refugees Admitted in October: 77.7 Percent Christians
By Patrick Goodenough | November 6, 2018 | (CNSNews.com) – The first month of the new fiscal year saw 1,834 refugees admitted to the United States, more than […]
Abuse and ‘vilification’ of migrants on the rise as borders close
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Nov 15,2018 – LONDON — Vilification of migrants as criminals, rather than people needing protection, by politicians and the media is making them more […]
On Armistice Day, we had the luxury of remembering the Great War – while Palestinians are still living its consequences
For those refugees, still in their hovels and shacks as a result of the Balfour Declaration, the First World War never ended Robert Fisk, The Independent There was something gruesomely […]
The Americas ; Splintered migrant caravan groups arrive at US border
By Maria Verza | AP November 14 at 1:21 PM ESCUINAPA, Mexico — Migrants in a caravan of Central Americans scrambled to reach the U.S. border, catching rides on buses […]
‘Pure joy’: refugees fleeing conflict delighted by first snow in Canada
Justin Trudeau, in stark contrast to Donald Trump, has publicly welcomed families fleeing conflict and supported by sponsors Leyland Cecco in Toronto Mon 12 Nov 2018 Eritrean refugee children experience […]
Dozens of Rohingya flee camps by boat, reviving memories of 2015 tragedy
Reuters International Nov 8, 2018 By Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson YANGON/COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to […]