Unwelcome Refugees

Ministers are facing calls to bring more unaccompanied child refugees to the UK after it emerged the Home Office’s scheme for offering sanctuary to lone minors in Europe has ended – despite the fact that thousands remain stranded on the continent. In the first figures published on the Dubs amendment…

"Selling Organs to Survive" is the winner of the 2020 Webby Award for Social, News and Politics (Video). More than 3 million Syrian refugees have crossed the border into Turkey to escape the violence in their country. While they may now be physically safe, financially, they are anything but. Some…

India Asia Cyclone A disaster management volunteer carries a sick child as villagers on the Bay of Bengal coast are evacuated as a precaution against Cyclone Amphan at Bakkhali, West Bengal state, India, May 19, 2020. Mehaboob Gazi/AP New Delhi — India and Bangladesh are evacuating more than 7 million people…

Working with citizen presenters and engineers enabled a local radio station in Luxembourg to disseminate COVID-19 news in nine different languages. This case study is part of Resilience Reports, a series from the European Journalism Centre about how news organizations across Europe are adjusting their daily operations and business strategies…

Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) who have been forced to leave their home countries are now facing greater risks due to the spread of coronavirus and the restrictions brought in to force to fight it, according to a new study. These survivors, mostly women, are having to deal…

The latest Google Doodle for those of us in the UK and Canada celebrates the 111th birthday of the “British Schindler” Sir Nicholas Winton. The incredibly modest Briton passed away aged 105 in July 2015, but is credited with saving the lives of over over 600 children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia…

London, United Kingdom - Once a week, Hassan Akkad has a recurring nightmare. He is in Syria. He is stuck. And he cannot leave. "My happy memories of Syria are overridden by nightmares," he tells Al Jazeera, in an interview on Skype. "It's sad that this is how it seeps into…

Greek health workers test new arrivals at a temporary camp on the island of Lesbos, where coronavirus has now been detected Two asylum seekers who have recently arrived on Greece's island of Lesbos, home to the country's largest migrant camp, have tested positive for coronavirus, migration ministry sources said on Friday.…

FILE PHOTO: Health Ministry officials wear their personal protective equipment (PPE) before testing newly arrived refugees and migrants at a temporary camp, where cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were detected, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Elias Marcou/File PhotoATHENS (Reuters) - Two asylum seekers recently arrived on…

With coronavirus lockdowns in force across Europe, the continent's largest and most marginalised minority - the Roma - is at the mercy of racist and violent police officers seemingly accountable to no one.  Police officers from Slovakia to Ireland, who need little encouragement to terrorise the Roma even during normal…