In Hong Kong, refugees struggle to find food on empty supermarket shelves
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Panic buying in Hong Kong due to fears of a new COVID lockdown has hit the city’s refugees particularly hard because they can only spend their food allowance in supermarkets that regularly run out of supplies, aid workers and refugees say. Hong Kong is on tenterhooks as it awaits a mass COVID […]
Britons to £350 a month to open homes to Ukraine refugees
London, UKReuters Britain will pay people to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion as the government moves to deflect anger over its response to the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The new scheme called “Homes for Ukraine” will let refugees from the war come to Britain even if they do […]
“Lost generation”: Fears as COVID school closures fuel inequality
ANNIE BANERJI and HEDWIG ARINAITWE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education of children, particularly in low-and-middle-income nations…
Fate of Ukrainians with disabilities a “crisis within a crisis”
Lisbon, PortugalReuters A Ukrainian disability campaigner could barely hold back the tears when she told of a young man with cerebral palsy who she said was killed in a Russian air strike near Kyiv. Raisa Kravchenko, from VGO, a Ukrainian network of more than 100 local NGOs supporting people with intellectual disabilities, spoke to reporters […]
Essay: Concerns for human rights continue to grow in post-coup Sudan
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says the situation facing churches in Sudan is worsening following last October’s coup…