Refugees

Aminah Farid Updated 3 weeks ago · Published on 22 Jul 2020 11:00AM · Evacuated Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sit on the shorelines of Lancok village, Aceh. They were heading for Malaysia when their rickety wooden boat capsized off the coast of Sumatra. – AFP pic, July 22, 2020. PUTRAJAYA…

Since the 1984 creation of Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), headlines have documented a history of abuse of power, racial and religious profiling, surveillance and disruption of Indigenous, labour, environmental, anti-war and student organizing, exaggerated threat assessments meant to promote bigger budgets, and complicity in torture.…

WHO Turkey implementing Partner Doctors Worldwide Pelşin Ülgen, a psychosocial services expert from the Istanbul Refugee Health Training Centre For many refugees who have fled from war-torn Syria to Turkey, the European Union-funded Refugee Health Training Centres remain a vital access point to primary health care. But the Centres saw…

Updated 3 months ago · Published on 20 Jul 2020 6:10PM · Deputy Home Minister I Ismail Mohamed Said says refugee status is not given out easily by UNHCR to avoid abuse by unscrupulous parties. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 20, 2020. THE government’s priority is safety and…

“Perhaps one of the most important steps that we took in our response to COVID-19 has been engaging refugees and migrants inside the centres across the country,” says Aref Bandary, a doctor and cultural mediator originally from Iran working in the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration (SCRM) in Belgrade,…

The United Nations Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into Syria.“The veto is against us,” Mustafa Alkaser told NBC News from a refugee camp in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.“It’s against the refugees, against the free…

Crikey readers have their say on tearing down statues, 20 years of the GST, and welcoming Hong Kong refugees.A recently defaced statue of Captain Cook (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)Earlier this week, Toby Ralph asked about the wisdom of tearing down statues, and Crikey subscribers responded. You also had your say on…

Due to border closures in the wake of the corona crisis, the arrival of refugees in Europe has temporarily dipped. However, worldwide numbers of refugees have surged, again, within a year, driven by violence, war, persecution, economic hardship, or climate change. In the foreseeable future, many refugees will not be…

Malaysian police on Tuesday said they will summon reporters of news broadcaster Al Jazeera for questioning over a documentary on the country's arrests of undocumented migrants, which authorities have accused of being an attempt to tarnish Malaysia's image."Locked up in Malaysia's Lockdown", produced by the Qatar-based station's 101 East news…

With talk that managers of Alberta's public service are likely to be back in their offices next Monday preparing for the return of most of the rest of the government's direct employees to their workplaces by July 20, the public service has prepared a 41-page "Government of Alberta Return to…