Refugees

Benedict Cumberbatch would like to set the record straight. “I’m not responsible for Peter Parker’s heartache at all,” the Oscar nominee said emphatically during a sit-down at the iconic Rainbow Room in New York Thursday evening. He’s referring, of course, to the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which…

Warning: this article contains mention of suicide and self-harm. The Human Rights Law Centre has slammed the Morrison government’s continued use of Nauru for offshore processing, saying that leaked emails from Nauru police demonstrate the appalling disregard for refugees and asylum seekers detained there. Earlier this week, a trove of…

Luncheon raises $250K Chernivtsi, a Western Ukrainian city hosting an influx of refugees. Members of the Rushnychok Ukrainian Folk-Dance group perform at a fundraiser for Saskatoon's Ukrainian sister city, Chernivtsi on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix Although the many names ending in -chuk, -enko, -nyk…

The Canadian QSR brand is providing employment, flights, funds for accommodations – and most importantly – the opportunity to make a fresh start in a place of safety TORONTO, /CNW/ - A short time ago, Alper Hos was one of the millions of Ukrainians taking refuge in Poland from the…

Mohsin Hamid | Riverhead Books, 2017 | Book Exit WestA surrealist look at the very surreal experience of sudden and total displacement, with a quiet suggestion that all humans are in fact refugees through time Alexis Okeowo | The New Yorker, 2022 | Article "Warsan Shire’s Portraits of Somalis in…

Thirty Rohingya refugees were detained in Langkawi, Kedah yesterday after their boat had sailed into the country’s waters. They alleged, however, that they had no intentions to enter Malaysia, but had to do so as the boat had run out of fuel, said Kedah police chief, Commissioner Wan Hassan Wan…

When it became clear to Liliia Fomina that the war raging outside her hometown of Zaporizhzhia would continue not just for days, but months or even years, she decided that she wanted to flee to the UK. A sponsor in Windsor was found, and on 18 March the 29-year-old applied…

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A group helping Ukrainian refugees has criticised a decision to give less than 24 hours’ notice to 60 Ukrainians on their relocation from a hotel at Dublin Airport to accommodation in Co Cork. A total of 60 Ukrainian people staying at the Holiday Inn Dublin Airport were told on Thursday…

Afghans trying to enter the U.S. to escape Taliban rule are subject to stricter requirements than Ukrainians trying to flee the Russian invasion of their country, and thousands of Afghans — even some threatened by the Taliban — have been rejected, refugee advocates say.  “There are clearly two refugee systems…