Refugees

Press contacts: Bhanu Bhatnagar Press & Media Relations Officer WHO Regional Office for Europe Email: bbhatnagar@who.int Press office: WHO/Europe Press Office Email: eupress@who.int Istanbul, 18 March 2022Amid multiple ongoing humanitarian crises triggered by conflict, natural disasters, and climate change, 3 WHO regional offices brought together governments, civil society including refugee…

AFP — Fleeing Ukrainian families have described the “hell” they left behind in the besieged city of Mariupol, of seeing corpses in the streets and of sleeping in sub-zero temperatures, hiding in cellars. Shelled relentlessly by Russian forces, they said they were forced to melt snow for drinking water and…

Over 700 Canadians are part of a global network of thousands of Airbnb hosts that have opened their doors to Ukrainian refugees fleeing war since late February. Toronto resident Aditya Ahuja, a business manager in the recruitment industry, says he's hoping to host Ukrainian refugees in his spare bedroom for…

A new survey found four-in-five say they support the Liberal government's plan to allow an unlimited number of Ukrainian refugees into the country.  According to an online survey conducted by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute, there is an unprecedented enthusiasm among Canadiansfor welcoming Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.  In 2015,…

Over 100,000 Britons have expressed interest in hosting Ukrainian refugees, as part of a government programme for households to take in those fleeing Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday. "It's fantastic that over 100,000 people and organisations have recorded their interest in supporting Ukrainians fleeing the war," he…

A group of pro-Ukrainian protesters were detained by French police yesterday after breaking into a villa in Biarritz belonging to Vladimir Putin’s younger daughter. The group, led by Frenchman and former businessman Pierre Haffner, who lived in Russia for over two decades, declared the multimillion-pound beach-front property to be “a…

Through a new government scheme, people in the UK will be able to house refugees fleeing Ukraine who have been granted a visa. So far, 4,000 visas have been issued to Ukrainians with family in the UK. The government, which has been criticised for its slow response to the Ukrainian…

LONDON, England — Ukrainian refugees could be housed in property owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs, the UK government said on Monday, as it unveiled a scheme for Britons wanting to open their homes to those fleeing the war. Asked about the possibility, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman told reporters that…

When the Polish photographer Rafał Milach took these pictures, on his country’s eastern border, the war in Ukraine was less than a week old. During that week, nearly a million people fled Ukraine, half a million of them escaping to Poland. (Both numbers have since doubled.) It was freezing along…

A Ukrainian mother and daughter have come to Alberta to start over for a second time, but this time leaving behind a husband and brother. The Pustovoyts were forced to flee their home and lives in 2014, when war broke out in the Donbas region of Ukraine. They found themselves…