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Europeans welcome Ukrainian refugees with food and housing; 160,000 fled in two days Unwelcome Refugees

Europeans welcome Ukrainian refugees with food and housing; 160,000 fled in two days

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…
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February 26, 2022
Europe Braces For Refugees As Russia Attacks Ukraine’s Capital Unwelcome Refugees

Europe Braces For Refugees As Russia Attacks Ukraine’s Capital

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…
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February 25, 2022
Europe is bracing for a possible huge influx of refugees if Russia attacks Ukraine Unwelcome Refugees

Europe is bracing for a possible huge influx of refugees if Russia attacks Ukraine

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…
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February 17, 2022
Countering Anti-Child Rights Movements in Europe: The Need for a European Mechanism Unwelcome Refugees

Countering Anti-Child Rights Movements in Europe: The Need for a European Mechanism

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…
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February 9, 2022
Poland fortifies border to thwart refugees’ desperate efforts to find asylum Unwelcome Refugees

Poland fortifies border to thwart refugees’ desperate efforts to find asylum

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…
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November 12, 2021