Refugees

Calendar, 2 July 2021 - Few months since the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility, the global initiative to ensure equitable vaccine distribution, internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Adagom refugee community in Cross River State received their first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine as part of…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police started evicting several hundred homeless families from a recently established tent city near Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, an event that underscored Brazil's resurgent poverty during the pandemic. Televised images showed residents blocking the entrance to the campsite with bonfires as police launched tear…

Amid the efforts to reunify the migrant families that were separated by President Donald Trump’s notorious zero tolerance policy, one question has consistently hovered in the background like an uninvited guest: Why can’t we just give these families permanent status? After a long period of kicking the can down the…

After living for six years in northern Uganda's Rhino Refugee Camp, Muki Nicholas, 24, and his family have returned home to Yei, in the southwestern part of South Sudan, in the hopes of resettling and tilling the land once again. He's one of the 5,000 refugees who are attempting to…

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While the Health Act states that refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and undocumented persons should be given basic access to healthcare, that is not happening on the ground and it is a challenge for many documented and undocumented persons who don't have the means to pay, writes Sibusisiwe Ndlela, Boitumelo Masipa and…

The United States resettled just 271 refugees in April, according to new data from the State Department. The US has thus far resettled 2,334 refugees in the current fiscal year, an historic low. President Biden recently raised the admissions cap to 62,500, but warned he would not meet that goal.…

Talks held with UN to help fleeing Karen People protest in Hlaing Township, Yangon, on Sunday. (Reuters photo) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has held talks with authorities in Mae Hong Son to find ways to help more than 2,000 Karen refugees who crossed the Salaween River…

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