Refugees

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…

Nearly 100 Rohingya refugees are waiting to hear their fate after being rescued by fishermen off the Indonesian coast. The men, women and children have been at sea for weeks. But the government there has yet to decide whether they can stay or will be forced back out to sea.…

Rohingya refugees intercepted by the MMEA off Langkawi island being handed over to immigration authorities Survivors from a boat crammed with more than 300 Rohingya refugees have recounted to Malaysian authorities how dozens had perished during a tortuous four-month voyage and their bodies thrown in the sea. The head of the…

By the late summer of 1967, when I turned seven, we’d been living in the house for six years. By “we,” I mean my mother, two of my four older sisters, and my little brother. And although we shared the place with a rotating cast of other relatives, including my…

Jacquelline Fuller President, Google.org Published Jun 20, 2020 More than 79 million were displaced at the end of last year as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations—29 million of which were refugees. Since 2015, we’ve given more than $30 million in Google.org grants to help provide emergency…

A group of some 800 refugees living in a resettlement camp in Kensington want the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to move them to a safer country.Tilda Wilondja, who fled the DRC with her family as a 10-year-old girl, wants the world to know that refugees are people too.According to the UNHCR, there…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When he was attacked by a mob for being gay, Martin Okello said the kicks and blows from his assailants came so fast that he couldn’t stop them or flee. He passed out and was left for dead in Nairobi’s low-income neighborhood of Kawangware.Okello had fled…