Refugees

On Wednesday, 27 May at 19:30 GMT:Frequent handwashing and physical distancing are the pillars of efforts around the world to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. But for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh who are now directly threatened by COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus,…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.There are significant gaps in COVID-19 testing capability in war-torn parts of the world, raising the chance of new, undetected outbreaks of the coronavirus.Data compiled by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reveals some of the…

Hungary shut its "migrant transit zones" on its borders on Thursday, freeing some 300 refugees from prison-like conditions - while at the same time hardening rules that will effectively bar future asylum applicants. During the peak of Europe's 2015 migration crisis, Prime Minister Viktor Orban ordered Hungary's southern border with…

The mother of a young refugee who died mysteriously on Nauru has formally requested a public inquiry into her son's death, backed by lawyers who say a coroner is obliged to investigate following a series of stories from BuzzFeed News.Rakib Khan was just 24 when he died at Nauru's hospital…

DescriptionThey risked everything. Gave all they had. Endured smugglers, rough seas, hunger, sickness and death. Some even made it. Only to be kept out. Blocked. Kicked. Battered. Humiliated. Walls have been put up. Trains stalled. Gates closed. Xenophobia turned to full blast. The Syrian refugee crisis isn’t a third world…

The Trump administration is extending a ban on "non-essential" travel at the borders with Canada and Mexico."Our efforts over the last several months to limit non-essential travel have been successful and now is not the time to change course," Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said in a…

1 of 2 2 of 2 In 2017, Ai Weiwei released a documentary with Amazon Studios called Human Flow. The moving film spotlighted Weiwei’s expansive journey across 23 countries with the artist interviewing over 600 refugees and aid workers amid the global migrant crisis. The renowned artist now announces a…

Next August will mark three years since more than 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to escape what United Nations investigators called a "genocide" in Rakhine state. In this award-winning video, Al Jazeera English journalists Mohammed Jamjoom, Stefanie Dekker, Showkat Shafi and Sorin Furcoi reflect on the stories they heard and the…

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This Ramadan is unlike any other in living memory. Across the Muslim world, mosques stand empty, iftar meals are strangely quiet affairs and the joyful social gatherings that normally mark the Holy Month have been abandoned as we grapple with a global health emergency. For many families, these disconcerting times…