Unwelcome Refugees

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…

The White House is closing pathways to citizenship while maintaining a flow of exploitable immigrant labor. April 29, 2020 Staff writer at The Atlantic Paul Spella / The Atlantic*More than a decade before he became Franklin D. Roosevelt’s running mate, the Texas Democrat John Nance Garner tried to convince the…

Inclusive design is the focus of Hello Humanity: Dutch Design for a Holistic World, a virtual exhibition forming part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration.The exhibition features projects by seven designers that are based in the Netherlands and explores inclusive and accessible designs that "tell stories that belong to…

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Confinement does not trouble Tamon Mark Andang Asongwe too much. The coronavirus lockdown is mostly keeping him inside his home in Athens, but it’s not the first time his liberty has been under threat. There were three stretches in jail for political activism back home in Cameroon; a spell in…

Governments across the EU are pushing for high-tech solutions to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Contact tracing and tracking the movements of infected people is just one example. As debate around this issue grows, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals that the new science of predicting and monitoring…

An allegation that a Rwandan police commander sexually assaulted a child refugee has rocked an EU-funded scheme, under which hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers have been evacuated from detention centres in Libya. The allegation was made by a 16-year-old… Read More

With many European health services struggling to deal with an influx of COVID-19 patients, many refugees and migrants with experience in the sector, are being drafted in to help respond to the crisis.  The Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service (SMUR) is on the front line in the fight against coronavirus,…

Sylvi arrived in Morocco after a weeks-long journey via the Niger desert, considered one of the most dangerous routes for sub-Saharan migrants and refugees who want to reach Europe. She had fled Cameroon, where she faced gender-based violence. Sylvi says making that journey was far less daunting than the reality…