Refugees

Former health secretary Matt Hancock is set to open his home to seven refugees fleeing Ukraine. Mr Hancock, who resigned from the government last June after he admitted breaking COVID rules, told the Sun on Sunday he will house the family - and their four dogs - at his home…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Anxious about the wellbeing of their Ukrainian refugees, city mayors across Poland are refusing the government’s instructions to sound air raid alarm sirens Sunday as part of memorial observances for Poland’s 2010 presidential plane crash. The right-wing central government wants the sirens to go off at…

PRUDENTÓPOLIS, Brazil—Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, this sleepy farming town some 7,000 miles away in southern Brazil has been gripped by a sense of both horror and nervous excitement. Nicknamed “Little Ukraine,” Prudentópolis prides itself on being one of the most Ukrainian towns in…

Maryana Berezhnytska didn't think she would ever see atrocities like the ones Russian troops are purported to have committed against civilians amid the war in Ukraine, where she lives with her daughters, 9 and 11. “I never thought that there would be a war in our country and that my…

WARSAW — Six weeks ago, Aleksandra Petrykowska was a transactional lawyer in Warsaw on the fast track: She was a managing partner at a firm by her late 30s, who had spent her spare time studying for a Ph.D. When war broke out in Europe, she walked away from all…

"Tomorrow, you'll need to decide how much support you'll be able to give to these people who have been forced to leave their homes, their country, their loved ones." Screenshot from Céline Dion's Instagram account. Céline Dion is using her massive social media following to help raise money for refugees…

A report in this newspaper that some Irish families have found themselves “unable to cope” with hosting Ukrainian refugees and have already “returned them” to State accommodation centres such as the one in Citywest, have lead to the predictable range of reactions – sniggering, eye-rolls, performative outrage about the “virtue-signalling…

The Polish government said it allowed passage for over 2,000 Nigerians and millions of other refugees fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war. A statement on Wednesday, from the Embassy of Poland in Nigeria, titled: ‘Poland stands with Ukraine – the spirit of Polish solidarity reborn,’ said Poland has opened its borders to…

The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank on the Thai border, trapped in limbo between a country that does not want them and a country whose military could kill them. Like thousands of others fleeing mounting violence after a military…

Across the globe, millions of people are displaced and in need of safety and protection. Only about 1% of refugees have access to resettlement each year, leaving millions of people in limbo and a significant talent pool often untapped. Labour complementary pathways provide an additional way, beyond resettlement, for displaced…