Refugees

Ukrainian refugee Tetiana Sviderska, right, helps Irina Pivovarchuk of Mundare, Alta., to make paska, a sweet bread traditionally served during Easter.Photography by Megan Albu/The Globe and Mail Tymofii Sviderskyi didn’t understand why he had to leave his home and country, didn’t know why he had to say goodbye to his…

Not Colorado, we just passed a law to protect abortion, and we've been seeing the out of state patients increase dramatically since Texas passed their bill last year. "Our Park Hill health care center in Denver has seen a 520% increase in Texas patients comparing August to September."  https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-planned-parenthood-increase-in-patients-from-texas/73-db2062d2-b179-4cb5-bcbd-64059b86a984 "Women…

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Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The number of refugees admitted to the UK from Ukraine is just a fraction of those admitted to other European countries. Figures released on 8 April showed that just 12,000 Ukrainian refugees have reached Britain since the start of the Russian invasion, the majority through…

London, New York, Los Angeles 12th April 2022: Newsflare, the world’s leading licensing platform and marketplace for user-generated video (UGV), is offering its 45,000 global membership of filmers the option to donate their earnings to the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR). Newsflare will match every donation made in…

Those willing to squeeze into Yuri's yellow school bus have made a choice not just to leave Russian-occupied Kherson, but also to leave nearly everything they have. Many stand for the 135km journey in the vehicle that is as crammed full as a lifeboat on the Titanic: There are few…

There was only one seat available on the bus out of Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Dmitro’s mother insisted he take it — forcing him to leave her and his seven-year-old sister behind. Just 17 years old, Dmitro arrived in Moldova on Saturday morning alone as an unaccompanied minor. He…

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…