Unwelcome Refugees

By Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The coronavirus lockdown has cut the number of asylum seekers able to reach Europe, but the pandemic could trigger more arrivals in future if it worsens turmoil to the Middle East and North Africa, the European Union asylum agency said.With global travel all but grounded,…

ATHENS (Reuters) - A group of 50 refugees and asylum seekers flew from Greece to Britain on Monday to reunite with relatives in a transfer that had been held up by the coronavirus lockdown. Refugees and migrants from overcrowded migrant camps who will be transferred to Britain where they will…

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is to take up to 60 unaccompanied children from Greek refugee camps, according to Socialist Party lawmaker Isabel Santos, as concern mounts over the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the vulnerable group. FILE PHOTO: A girl stands next to the fence of the Moria camp…

Violence escalated at the Kastanies-Pazarkule crossing, on the Greek-Turkish border, at the beginning of March - ALexandros Avramidis/ReutersGreek border forces were probably responsible for shooting and killing a migrant trying to break through the Turkish-Greek border fence at the beginning of March, an investigation has suggested.More than ten thousand migrants…

The world’s 25 million refugees, about the population of Australia, can be viewed as a huge problem, a great marketing opportunity, or a wasted resource. See the UN for a breakdown of the states and refugee populations. Village Capital, named the best-connected impact investing organization in the world, sees refugees…

It took a month, countless emails, tweets and a desperate Facebook post for Clare Moseley to get hold of and then deliver hand sanitizer for some of Europe’s most vulnerable people—more than 1,000 refugees living in tented camps with no running water in Calais, France. It “felt like a really big…

Thousands of desperate migrants are trapped in limbo and even at risk of death without food, water or shelter in scorching deserts and at sea, as governments close off borders and ports in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.Migrants have been dropped by the truckload in the Sahara or bused…

Hundreds of protesters in Berlin defied a ban on public gatherings to mark May Day on Friday, exposing deep frustrations with social distancing rules in place in Germany since mid-March. Police blocked roads around the square in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, traditionally the centre of left-wing May Day protests that had turned…

By: AP | Athens | Updated: April 30, 2020 6:15:45 pm Migrants and refugees, who say that they seek to travel onward to northern Europe sleep outside a camp in the town of Diavata, Greece, April 5, 2019. (REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis)Greece’s migration ministry says Finland has agreed to take in 100…

Koblenz, Germany - This week in Koblenz, a picturesque German town on the banks of the Rhine river, local prosecutors have been demonstrating how the world could try war criminals.  During the first few days of a landmark case focusing on crimes against humanity by members of the Syrian regime, the…