Refugees

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…

The Federal Commissioner of National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Senator Basheer Mohammed, said Nigeria will protect all refugees within her borders. In his speech delivered at the 2020 World Refugee Day Celebration held at the Army Resource center and made available to Daily Trust, he said…

So far, the series features intimate, moving and uplifting imagery from more than 25 male and female refugees across five continents. With the campaign set to continue through the coming year, building towards a physical exhibition during the Euros 2021, in total, there are expected to be more than 60…

In her News Feature “An unequal blow” (15 May, p. 700), L. Wade discusses the vulnerability of poor people and members of minorities during both past and present pandemics. However, the article overlooks recent immigrants, who have also been particularly vulnerable to pandemics in the past and are threatened now…

Nearly 80 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide by the end of last year as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations, according to the United Nations. Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, released its annual report on displacement on…

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency expressed concerns Thursday about impact of the coronavirus pandemic from Africa’s Sahel region to Latin America and beyond, warning that millions fled upheaval at home and could face hardship abroad among lockdowns and other restrictive measures to fight the outbreak.…

The suicide of prominent Egyptian LGBTQI rights activist Sarah Hegazi (30), while in exile in Canada, has focussed attention on the plight of queer refugees in Australia and across the world. For Renee Dixson, researcher and co-founder of the Forcibly Displaced People Network – an advocacy group for LGBTQI refugees…