Unwelcome Refugees

Saroja Devi fled Nuwara Eliya in Central Sri Lanka during the anti-Tamil riots in 1983, and still lives in the Kottapattu refugee camp on the suburbs of Trichy with her husbandTILL THE last moment, they hoped that the Citizenship Amendment Act would include t…

The United Nations has hailed a "decisive shift" in the approach to helping surging numbers of displaced people, after a summit ended with pledges to donate billions and concrete promises to simplify refugee integration. The Global Refugee Forum, which opene…

Written by Mehr Gill , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Published: December 18, 2019 7:43:05 pm Rohingya refugees in a Bangladesh camp reach out to receive aid in 2017. (Reuters)The first Global Refugee Forum (GRF) is currently underway in Geneva, S…

At least seven people, including three women, drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco to Spain. The Moroccan coastguard vessel which retrieved the bodies on Monday also rescued 70 survivors, including 10 women and a baby, who were fo…

Geneva (AFP) - A global refugee summit opens in Geneva Tuesday amid calls for concrete actions to help a surging number of displaced people, and for wealthy nations to shoulder their share of the burden. The Global Refugee Forum begins exactly a year after t…

Valletta, Malta - In March this year, a group of more than 100 migrants embarked upon an already-deflating raft to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya. Their rescue story would later become a landmark case in Malta, a key first port of entry for migrants h…

This month marks 40 years since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Since December 1979, almost unending waves of conflict and violence have forced successive generations of Afghan men, women and children to seek sanctuary elsewhere. Today, there are some 4.…

Spotted: What started out as a hashtag in 2015, #helprefugees, has now reached over one million displaced people, worked with 35,000 volunteers and currently supports over 120 projects across Europe, the Middle East and the US-Mexico border. One of the projec…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The European Union should spend more than the 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) already allotted to fund Syrian refugees in Turkey, and speed up the flow of that money, the Turkish foreign ministry’s EU point person said on Saturday. EU fu…

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to restrict abortion and immigration. As President, he has delivered on these promises. He has stacked the federal bench with conservative judges hostile to reproductive rights. He has emboldened states to pass strict abo…