Refugees

OTTAWA -- Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels ran across the lawn. As one of the last refugees to arrive in Canada before the border closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it still felt like…

OTTAWA — Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels ran across the lawn. OTTAWA — Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels…

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Ethiopian government has taken control of a refugee processing center run by the International Organization for Migration, a UN organization, in the country’s capital city, Addis Ababa. Whether IOM willingly ceded the facility, or whether it was seized by force, is…

News Jada Loutoo Friday 11 December 2020File photo: A policewoman escorts Venezuelans who arrived on pirogues at Los Iros, Erin in November. PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER - THE INTER-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) wants details of the conditions at the state-controlled quarantine facility at the heliport in Chaguaramas, as…

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that any forced return of Eritrean refugees currently in Ethiopia back to their homeland would be "absolutely unacceptable"."These are indeed disturbing reports that we are receiving as well," Babar Baloch, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said…

The Governor of Borno, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has pleaded with the Federal Government to help about 200,000 Nigerian refugees of Borno origin in Niger, Cameroon and Chad republics to return home. Zulum made the appeal in Abuja on Friday in his goodwill message at a stakeholders meeting on the Implementation…

Using smartphones to track and trace during the COVID-19 pandemic creates a smokescreen for wider surveillance measures that may infringe on people's right to privacy.  Human rights activists are concerned that such data can be used to discriminate against migrants and refugees, and on racial grounds.  The "Report of the Special Rapporteur…

IT all started with a refugee child’s bamboo toy rickshaw 10 years ago. As the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum added exhibits to the rickshaw over the years, it attracted so many visitors that it was forced to undertake an expansion project last year. The renovated museum reopened yesterday. The iconic…

Rohingya refugees disembark from a Bangladesh Navy ship to the island of Bashar Char in Noakhali on December 4, 2020. Stringer / AFPBangladesh transported more than 1,600 Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island on Friday in the first phase of a controversial planned relocation of 100,000 people. Almost a million…