Refugees

It was exactly two years ago today, on August 25 2017, that the Myanmar military launched a murderous “clearance operation” in Rakhine State. In the space of a few months, the security forces and their proxies killed thousands of Rohingya people, torched vill…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Tens of thousands of refugees in camps marked their two years away from home Tens of thousands of Rohingya held demonstrations inside their refugee camps in Bangladesh on Sunday, two years after their exodus. Nearly 750,000…

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - On a fateful August morning two years ago, Safina Begum, now 23, fled from her charred village in Maungdaw district in Myanmar and slogged through marshland and paddy fields for three days to reach the Kutupalong refugee camp in neig…

Syrian refugees are more satisfied with settlement services and their community when they spend their first year of settlement in a smaller city, according to a new University of Alberta study. Researchers compared experiences of refugees from Syria who were…

The captain of a ship that rescued thousands of migrants from the Mediterranean Sea has turned down a medal of honor because the medal, she says, represents the hypocrisy of how countries treat migrant issues. Pia Kemp, a 35-year-old German biologist and b…

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - Driving through the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, bamboo huts with makeshift tarpaulin roofs stretch across the hilly horizon as far as the eye can see, while flags with the names of aid organisations ripple in the breeze. A…

Pia Klemp has refused to accept a medal for bravery from Paris' mayor, saying, "We do not need authorities deciding about who is a 'hero' and who is 'illegal.' " Tristar Media/Getty Images The captain of a controversial ship that saved migrants in the Medit…

During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. without exceeding the nations existing quotas. The primary mechanism that kept them out: the immigration laws likely to become a public charge clause. Consula…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Conditions have deteriorated aboard the crowded rescue ship An Italian prosecutor has ordered the seizure of the Open Arms migrant ship and the evacuation of the migrants on board on to the island of Lampedusa, Italian m…

Spain is dispatching a navy ship to assist the transfer of scores of stranded asylum seekers to a Spanish port, as the rescue boat that picked them up nearly three weeks ago remains anchored off the coast of an Italian island amid a standoff with Italy's far-…