Refugees

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The Indian coast guard has found a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea carrying Rohingya refugees, including eight people who had died, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. Speaking at a videoconference briefing, spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that on February 11, a boat sailed from Cox's Bazar in…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the gradual return of Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, Niger and Chad to the country from February 27, 2021. The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. Mohammed said…

Gugu Mbatha-Raw has been appointed as a goodwill ambassador for the UN’s refugee agency. The actress has been a supporter of the UNHCR, which offers support to those seeking asylum, since 2018. The Misbehaviour star, 37, was described as a “powerful advocate for the rights of refugees” in a statement…

HUNGARY's Prime Minister Viktor Orban is continuing to deport refugees despite being found guilty of breaking EU laws on asylum by the bloc's top court.PUBLISHED: 14:39, Tue, Feb 23, 2021 | UPDATED: 20:42, Tue, Feb 23, 2021 Link copied Viktor Orban says he is fighting for ‘common sense’ at EU…

Exactly a year ago, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s directorial venture Shikara (2020) was released in cinemas. Starring newcomers Aadil Khan and Sadia, the film told the heartbreaking story of the exodus of Kashmiri refugees. It also had a romantic backdrop as it focused on a couple that stays together through thick…

Two PKR parliamentarians have voiced disappointment that Malaysia plans to deport 1,200 Myanmar nationals amid a military coup in their home country. Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar and Merbok MP Nor Azrina Surip said despite the Immigration Department’s reassurances that asylum seekers and Rohingya refugees would not be among…

Author of the article: The United Nations refugee agency called on Monday for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingya refugees adrift in their boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, many of them ill and suffering from extreme dehydration. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)…

By Nicholas KeungImmigration Reporter Mon., Feb. 22, 2021timer4 min. read In striking down a controversial refugee pact between Canada and the U.S., a Canadian judge made “palpable and overriding errors” that warrant a higher court’s intervention, according to a written submission by government lawyers. “These errors permeated both the Federal…

The new rules are meant to guard against further spread of COVID-19 and discourage travel OTTAWA — Newly arriving refugees will have the cost of their mandatory hotel quarantines covered by the federal government.  The federal government is also covering the cost of mandatory COVID-19 testing on arrival. As of…