Refugees

Croatia has been sending migrants and refugees back to Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2017 on the basis of a bilateral agreement between the ex-Yugoslav republics, data from Bosnia suggests, contradicting a claim by Croatia that its neighbour only began implementing the deal this year. Hundreds have been returned since the…

Hundreds of people fleeing the fighting in Sudan cross the main border post at Metema in western Ethiopia every day. Around 15,000 people from sixty different countries have crossed over between April 21st and May 7th.  Redin Abdela Ahmed, a student from Khartoum, was one of them. "We have to…

Hongkou District Integrated Media Center Sonja Muehlberger finds the names of her family and herself on the Wall of Names of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. Sonja Muehlberger wiped her eyes after seeing the washboard that her mother once used in Shanghai, displayed at the…

On Monday evening local residents set up makeshift blockades at either end of the rural road in the townland of Inch, Co Clare, that leads to the former Magowna House Hotel. Earlier that day, a bus had arrived from Dublin, carrying 34 male international protection applicants. Podcast: What will it…

Can an AI become sentient? As fantastic as it sounds, maybe it’s already happened. Skeptical. Me too. But when I read the conversation between a researcher and Google’s LaMDa, I – didn’t know what to think. Listen to it on Hashtag Trending the weekend edition when it goes live on…

HealthcareForAllNow paid a visit to the offices of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones on May 9. They delivered a petition signed by over 4,800 health-care providers, frontline workers and community members, demanding Ford reverse cuts to health-care coverage for uninsured people. Data from 2016 indicated that…

Charities have raised concerns that Afghan refugees – many of whom helped British troops before the Taliban takeover – could end up homeless as a result of a new government plan to move them out of hotel accommodation. The Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer today announced that roughly 8,000 people –…

Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman has said he believes "preconceptions" about asylum seekers will fall away once those seeking shelter are integrated into the Clare community. Mr O'Gorman indicated he will not travel to Inch to meet protesters and insisted Magowna House Hotel will be used to accommodate refugees. When asked…

The lines of refugees fleeing Sudan for food and safety illustrate how the war is adding to the rising numbers of acutely hungry people around the world. Indeed, wars and protracted conflicts – from Yemen and Syria to Afghanistan – were already a major factor in the global food security…

Burnt mattresses, clothes, books, a cooked pot of pasta and abandoned sleeping bags were among the debris of a fire started at a makeshift camp on Friday night where several homeless asylum seekers had been staying. A small group of asylum seekers are believed to have been living in the…