“Voice of a people”: Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the work of Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini…
Migrant crisis: Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports from Comitancillo in Guatemala’s highlands…
Essay: Gangs, kidnappings, murders – why thousands of Rohingya are desperately trying to escape refugee camps by boats
In an article first published on The Conversation, RUTH WELLS and MAX WILLIAM LOOMES, of UNSW Sydney, look at why so many Rohingya are fleeing Bangladesh and what Australia, New Zealand and regional partners can do to help them…
UN human rights chief urges clamp-down on people smugglers after shipwreck
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Friday for countries to clamp down on people smugglers and human traffickers after at least 78 migrants were killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Witness accounts suggested between 400 and 750 people had packed a fishing boat that capsized and […]
Fleeing Afghanistan: Smugglers hike prices, expand networks after Taliban takeover
EMMA BATHA and BAHAAR JOYA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report that people smugglers are more than doubling fees for some routes as they cash in on an exodus fleeing the Taliban…
Canada’s Trudeau vows action after four freeze to death in “mind blowing” tragedy
Ottawa, CanadaReuters Canada is doing all it can stop people smuggling across the US border after a family of four froze to death in a “mind blowing’ tragedy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. US authorities have charged a US man with human trafficking after the four – a man, woman, baby and teenager […]
Migration crisis: Shadow payment system on rise among European people smugglers
LAYLI FOROUDI, of Reuters, reports on the growing use of informal financial networks by people smugglers as far north as the UK…
“It’s all lies”; migrants stuck at Polish border feel cheated by people smugglers
Orla/Bialystok, PolandReuters Syrian friends Anas Kanaan, 34, and Mouein al-Hadi, 36, were told by people smugglers that they would easily be able to get to Germany from Belarus. They just had to pay €3,000 each to an intermediary in Turkey. But the safe crossings from Belarus to Poland indicated by the smugglers were closed off. […]