Refugees

Independent candidate for Fowler Dai Le says her Labor opponent Kristina Keneally stands out “very much like a sore thumb” in an electorate “full of predominantly migrants and refugees”. Ms Le said there are people coming into the polling booth saying they want someone who is “one of us”. “She’s…

Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico — “Every corner has a gun,” Evens Odmond said of his home country of Haiti. Odmond, his wife and their four-year-old son arrived in Mexico six months ago, hoping to claim asylum in the United States. They are now stuck in limbo in a border city…

A local Saskatoon woman is working to supply Ukrainian refugees with common household items for free. Nettie Cherniatenski says near the end of February she had a calling to help those evacuating Ukraine. After getting the All Saints Ukrainian Church priest’s blessing, she began collecting items and storing them in…

For many civilians trapped in the hell that Mariupol has become, the only way out has been through the country that destroyed their city and their homes. With access to the rest of Ukraine blocked, they were forced to flee through Russian occupied territory and then through Russia itself. Russia…

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Britain’s Daily Express published a report on Saturday claiming that members of the Royal Family are “providing accommodation for refugees” from Ukraine. (The newspaper’s site seems to have crashed as a result of this story, but a cached version is here.)  Whether royals are explicitly involved in these philanthropic actions…

Sally Becker - the 'Angel of Mostar' - says she is stuck in Poland with 167 vulnerable Ukrainian refugees after a red-tape wrangle with British officials who are preventing them from coming to the UK. The aid worker, who helped rescue hundreds of people from war-torn Bosnia, said she has…

LOWELL, Mass. —  For two centuries white men dominated this New England textile mill city, many ruling from the handsome Belvidere neighborhood overlooking the Merrimack River valley. Lowell, Mass., sits in the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, home to some of the nation’s first large-scale factories — powered by cascading…

Image: Refugee Action Coalition By Daniel Rashid One of Australia’s greatest horrors is its policy of mandatory detention, wherein for-profit concentration camps are run offshore to put asylum seekers in an indefinite lock up with no hope for reprieve. Many have fled from severe danger ranging from wars, or are…

/ Europe ON THE GROUND Issued on: 19/05/2022 - 09:16 02:16 Tetiana and her mother in their home in in Rescaldina, north of Milan, Italy, in May, 2022. © France 24 screenshot More than 116,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Italy since Ukraine was invaded by Russia in late February. To…