Refugees

In November 2020, fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia destroyed a secondary school which opened in 2018 in the Hitsats refugee camp. The school was attended by both refugees and Ethiopians. Hitsats was opened in 2013 to accommodate Eritrean refugees. In 2018, it housed over 15,000 refugees, nearly half…

Dhaka expects India or Myanmar to take refugees adrift in Andaman for nearly two weeks Bangladesh Navy personnel help a Rohingya child out of a navy vessel that was taking refugees to be resettled on Bhasan Char island in December. (Reuters File Photo) DHAKA: Bangladesh is under “no obligation” to…

News Grevic Alvarado 16 Hrs AgoVenezuelans wave "adios" to TT as they prepare to board a repatriation flight at Piarco International Airport on Friday. - Sureash CholaiFinally 96 Venezuelans who were refugees in TT returned to their country on Friday on a repatriation flight. At 7.30 pm yesterday, the flight,…

News Paula Lindo 2 Days AgoDavid Abdulah - Movement for Social Justice leader David Abdulah said he is pleased with Dr Keith Rowley's call for the US to lift sanctions on Venezuela. He said this was one of the issues the MSJ and the Assembly of Caribbean People had addressed…

You are hereHome While many Liberals did vote to support the genocide motion introduced this week, any subsequent commitment to assisting Uyghur refugees and taking actions on Chinese repression appear elusive. Thank you for reading this story… More people are reading rabble.ca than ever and unlike many news organizations, we…

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…