Refugees

LAUSANNE, Switzerland/TORONTO (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) and International Organization for Migration will temporarily suspend sending refugees on to resettle in new permanent homes abroad because of travel disruptions caused by the coronavirus, the agency said Tuesday. The agency said the suspension would begin to take effect within…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - European border restrictions imposed due to coronavirus will affect plans to transfer hundreds of children out of “dire and dangerous” refugee camps in Greece, a senior official for the United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. “The temporary shutdown of cross-border movement within the EU…

Sina Kalan, 36, walks out of the bathroom feeling like a new man. His beard is gone and drops of water trickle down his freshly-shaved skin. He has been waiting for this moment for 12 days. On the last Friday of February, Sina packed his bags and, together with his…

MUMBAI: Canada aims to welcome over 10 lakh immigrants over the next three years, up to 2022. This spells good news for skilled Indians, especially those in the technology sector. Given the challenges thrown up by the US immigration policies Canada has emerged as an attractive alternate destination. According to…

Source: Jenny Hwang, used with permission Each day, refugees are forced from their homes. Most often, the places they go lack access to mental health resources. Luckily, work is being done to learn more about refugee mental health and address this growing worldwide need. We interviewed Jenny Hwang to understand…

By Madeline ChambersBERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin will take in 80 to 100 children from Greek refugee camps, an official in the German capital said on Tuesday, as concern mounts about migrants amassing on the Turkish-Greek border.European politicians are struggling to agree what to do about the tens of thousands of…

ATHENS/ANKARA (Reuters) - Greeks and Turks are waging a proxy war on social media with photos, video and commentary purporting to show the other side behaving badly in a migrant crisis that has seriously strained already tense relations between Athens and Ankara. Greek soldiers patrol at a train station near…

This video appears to show a Greek coastguard vessel crossing the bow of an overcrowded rubber dinghy full of refugees and migrants, who can be heard screaming as the wake hits them.  On the same day, a child was reported to have died after a boat capsized off the coast…

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - In December, Saw Kaw Lar received an unexpected call. "Your case for going to America was withdrawn," the refugee from Myanmar’s Karen minority recalled hearing. "If there are other countries for you, we will tell you." In an instant, his 10-year journey towards resettlement in the…

For most close observers, it has long seemed only a matter of time before the long, bloody proxy war between Turkey and Russia for regional predominance in the Middle East would break out into full-scale direct hostilities. That came closer to happening last week, when Russian-backed Syrian forces attacked a…