Unwelcome Refugees

Hundreds of thousands of refugees are leaving Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, but some Ukrainian men and women are returning home from across Europe to help defend their homeland. After news of Russia's military attack against Ukraine, these Ukrainian doctors try to return home from Hungary by hitchhiking at the…

Placeholder while article actions load More than 400,000 Ukrainians have fled to European neighbors — mainly to Poland, as well as to Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia and Romania — since Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, a spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency said Sunday. Thousands more are still trying to…

Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, which reached the outskirts of the capital city Kyiv on Friday, has raised alarm in neighboring European countries that a humanitarian crisis is brewing on their doorstep. Speaking at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that Russia’s invasion…

Major Western nations have reacted with outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, accusing it of bringing war back to Europe. US President Joe Biden feared a “catastrophic loss of life” and said allies would impose severe sanctions. In Eastern Europe, the fears extended to coping with a wave of refugees.…

WASHINGTON — Eastern European governments are bracing for a potential refugee crisis if Russia launches an invasion of Ukraine, with possibly millions of civilians crossing the border into neighboring countries, Western officials and aid workers say. Apart from the humanitarian fallout, European officials expect Russia and its partners to try…

Anti-rights groups are non-state groups that position themselves as part of civil society but attack fundamental and universal human rights. They typically campaign against the rights of excluded groups – women, children and young people, LGBTQI+ people, religious minorities, ethnic and racial minorities, migrants and refugees. Consequently, civil society that…

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (Reuters) - After exhausting journeys that took them from Kabul to Qatar to European cities to U.S. military bases, Afghan families fleeing the Taliban alighted in Kentucky, in a small city well versed in receiving refugees. Bowling Green has welcomed waves of refugees over four decades, beginning…

After exhausting journeys that took them from Kabul to Qatar to European cities to U.S. military bases, Afghan families fleeing the Taliban alighted in Kentucky, in a small city well versed in receiving refugees. Bowling Green has welcomed waves of refugees over four decades, beginning with the Cambodians in the…

SHANGHAI — A musical commemorating the lives of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II was held at Shanghai Concert Hall on Saturday. The show featured a medley of songs, piano recitals of Jewish ballads, and reenactments from Chinese-Canadian writer Bei La’s novel titled “Song of Survivors.” The book…

Polish soldiers guard an intersection of forest roads at the edge of the security zone near Poland's border with Belarus. Poland has declared a state of emergency along the entire frontier.Anna Liminowicz/The Globe and Mail Amid the dense pine and birch forests of eastern Poland, one can find faint traces…