Refugees

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…

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island over the next two days, two officials said on Sunday, despite concerns about the risk of storms and floods lashing the site. Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char island since…

News Sean Douglas Thursday 24 December 2020File photo of Venezuelans onboard a pirogue making its way to Los Iros beach in TT - Lincoln HolderTHE United States government has donated US$11 million to local NGOs and international organisations to help Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad and Tobago, said a post on…

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A handout picture provided by Sudan's Foreign Media Council shows Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok meeting with his Ethiopian counterpart in Khartoum on 25 August 2020. Handout / AFP / Sudan'S Foreign Media Council Accompanied by a large security delegation, Abdalla Hamdok said he looked forward to "productive discussions on political,…

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…