Unwelcome Refugees

A boat carrying at least 86 migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of Tunisia and many are feared drowned.  Some of the four initial survivors told the Tunisian coastguard on Thursday the boat sunk off the town of Zarzis, Tunisian Red Crescent official…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The UN says one air strike hit a hangar containing more than 100 migrants The UN says it has received reports that guards fired on migrants who tried to flee air strikes on a detention centre near Libya's capital Tripoli…

In Tajoura detention centers administration block, there is an isolation room, where detainees who try to escape are abused and interrogated. At the end of May, there was a crackdown on communications in Tajoura. Three men were taken away by guards and tortur…

The biggest pride event in Central and Eastern Europe brought more people than ever to the streets in the Polish capital of Warsaw on June 8. Tens of thousands of people marched, danced and sang waving colourful flags and umbrellas. Back in 2005, gay rights a…

Mupenzi Nkera has spent his entire life as a refugee. As a child, he was forced to leave his homeland of Congo when civil war broke out. Today, Mupenzi is 24 years old and lives in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. It is a place he never thought he…

A woman picks up her belongings from among the rubble Wednesday, after an airstrike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in the Tajoura suburb of Tripoli. Ismail Zetouni/Reuters An airstrike on a migrant detention center in the Tajoura suburb …

(BENGHAZI, Libya) — An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants in the Libyan capital early Wednesday, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens, officials in the country’s U.N.-supported government said. The airstrike was likely to raise further c…

A charity running a rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea has hailed an Italian court's decision to free captain Carola Rackete, days after she was arrested for docking with 40 migrants on board her vessel in defiance of a ban by Italy's government. "We are r…

The Dalai Lama is apologizing for comments he made in a BBC interview last week suggesting that should a female succeed him, she should be “attractive,” saying that his “off the cuff remarks” were lost in “translation.” “His Holiness genuinely meant no offen…

The Dalai Lama said he is “deeply sorry” for recent comments that suggested that if his successor was female she should be “attractive.” In a statement released by his office on Tuesday, the Tibetan Buddhist leader walked back comments he made to the BBC whe…