Refugees

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…

 Art Craft Food #birds #ceramics #family #memory #movies #plants #toys Domestic Ceramics by Mechelle Bounpraseuth Infused with Culinary Life and Family Memories All images © Mechelle Bounpraseuth, shared with permission Sydney-based artist Mechelle Bounpraseuth crafts life-sized ceramics that explore her identity as a first-generation daughter of Laotian refugees. Her…

Dhaka (AFP) - Hundreds of Rohingya rescued by Bangladesh and sent to a flood-prone island after being stranded at sea for weeks should be moved to existing refugee camps, the UN secretary general has said.The appeal by Antonio Guterres to Bangladesh's foreign minister in a letter obtained Sunday by AFP…

(Reuters) - Police in Paris have arrested Rwanda’s most wanted man, Felicien Kabuga, an alleged architect of the genocide that killed about 800,000 people more than 25 years ago. Here are some details about the genocide: WAR: **In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda…

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on…