Unwelcome Refugees

The SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charities have relaunched migrant rescue operations off Libya, seven months after they were forced to abandon efforts using their ship Aquarius. The two groups "are back at sea with a new vessel, the Oce…

If anyone needed further proof that fascism is still alive and well in Italy, the footage of Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old captain of the migrant-rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, getting arrested in Lampedusa for trying to save 42 asylum seekers, provides a graphic…

By Arie Kruglanski, David Webber, Erica Molinario and Katarzyna Jako | – While todays news is full of stories about refugees and migrants to the U.S. from Central America, the plight of those particular refugees is only part of an international migration cri…

German boat captain Carola Rackete (in picture) has made headlines all over the world in the past few weeks. Together with a crew of volunteers of her Sea Watch 3, the 31-year-old woman rescued 53 refugees from a small dinghy in the Mediterranean in June. Tw…

In 2015, a photo of a drowned Syrian boy whose body washed up on a beach in Greece had caused an uproar in Europe, resulting in a change of policy regarding refugees. The recent photo of a father and daughter from El Salvador who drowned in the Rio Grande as…

In 2015, a photo of a drowned Syrian boy whose body washed up on a beach in Greece had caused an uproar in Europe, resulting in a change of policy regarding refugees. The recent photo of a father and daughter from El Salvador who drowned in the Rio Grande as…

For the Palestinians, accepting an economic deal that is not an annex to a convincing political solution would be tantamount to betraying Palestinian refugees and, indeed, the dream of statehood for a fistful of dollars. But that does not mean that they shoul…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Fifteen illegal migrants were killed and more than 20 injured in a minibus crash in southeast Turkey on Thursday, a local governor said. The minibus carrying the migrants went off the road and rolled into a ditch in the province of Van.…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was awarded 1.75 million Danish crowns ($262,952) compensation by a Danish court on Wednesday after a Danish car dealer used one of his works commemorating thousands of refugees as a backdrop for a commercial. …

Im not fine at all. Im dying in Libya. Muhammad Hafees sent me the message from a Libyan detention center on May 26 during Islams fasting month of Ramadan. After fleeing Sudans war-torn region of Darfur, the 26-year-old came to Libya two years ago to cross th…