Refugees

Published on June 27th, 2022 at 08:00am EDT Updated on June 30th, 2022 at 11:14am EDT Canada’s immigration goal is to continuously increase immigration levels in order to strengthen the economy, reunite families and provide humanitarian assistance to refugees. Canada has three classes of immigration: economic class, family class and…

Rwandan refugees in Mozambique say they are being coerced into accepting “voluntary” repatriation and the extradition agreement signed between Mozambique and Rwanda last week may make it possible for those who don’t sign it to be forcibly returned to Rwanda. In April, the Rwandan embassy in Maputo started a campaign…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe opened a new museum Saturday that tells the story of the generations of refugees who have shaped Danish society, starting with Germans who fled the Soviet advance during World War II. Flugt — Refugee Museum of Denmark was created on the site of…

CIC News > Latest News > Immigration > Express Entry > Immigration Minister Sean Fraser discusses Express Entry reforms Part 2 of CIC News's exclusive interview with Immigration Minister Sean Fraser on the changes to the Express Entry system currently being discussed in the Senate. Published on June 24th, 2022…

(CNN)Aid groups scrambled on Thursday to reach victims of a powerful earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people in an area blighted by poor infrastructure, as the country faces dire economic and hunger crises. The slow response, exacerbated by international sanctions and decades of mismanagement, concerns people…

A Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) mental health intervention at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, is building community resilience among those housed at the camp. The intervention, which began in January 2022, is set to run for two years. Nearly 15,000 refugees reside at the camp. Many have…

More than 1,800 Ivorians have taken advantage of an assisted return programme this year, Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has announced. The figure, he said, represented about 96 per cent of those processed since the beginning of accelerated voluntary repatriation in 2021, noting “this is progressing and a clear indication that…

Dmitry Muratov holds a copy of his newspaper, the Novaya Gazeta, after his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal sold for $103.5-million, in New York, on June 20.DAVID DEE DELGADO/Reuters The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night…

WEBWIRE – Monday, June 20, 2022 To date, the Airbnb.org team has connected more than 100,000 refugees and asylum seekers to temporary housing, including more than 50,000 people who have fled the conflict in Ukraine. As we mark World Refugee Day today, Airbnb.org is proud to work with Hosts on…

Actor Ben Stiller met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, during World Refugee Day. Stiller is currently visiting Ukraine in the role of a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Since Saturday, Stiller has traveled through Poland and Ukraine, where he has met with people…