Fortress Europe – Where will the migration flashpoints be in 2024?
Brussels, Belgium/London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As governments across Europe pursue policies aimed at deterring growing migration from Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries, rights campaigners say some measures could shut out or even criminalise refugees. With polls pointing to a swing to the far-right in June’s European parliament elections, and migration dominating debate ahead of Britain’s 2024 general election, […]
More than $US2.2 billion promised for global refugee crisis at UN forum
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Countries and businesses at a major UN forum pledged more than $US2.2 billion towards a global displacement crisis and promised jobs for tens of thousands of refugees in an outcome the United Nations chief said would help “stem the tide of misery”. Thousands of people from aid agencies, businesses and civil society as […]
UN foresees more displacement because of Gaza conflict
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The United Nations refugee chief warned that the Gaza conflict could spur more displacement in the wider region as UN officials, politicians and aid groups gathered in Geneva on Wednesday to seek solutions to a global displacement crisis. A record 114 million people around the world have been driven from their homes, including […]
About 400 Rohingya land in Indonesia, adds to surge of recent arrivals
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Dilapidated boats carrying an estimated 400 ethnic Rohingya arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Sunday, chief of a provincial fishing community has confirmed, adding to a recent surge of Myanmar’s Muslim minority arriving in the country. Prior to Sunday’s arrivals, the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, said that 1,200 Rohingya people, a […]
Karabakh refugees in Armenia face uncertainty and poverty in exile
Masis, Armenia Reuters For the third time in her life, Elada Sargsyan is a refugee. Born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Sargsyan fled her hometown in 1988, aged 19, as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. Elada Sargsyan, 54, a refugee from Nagorno-Karbakh region, poses for a picture in a disused kindergarten, where she […]
UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad
Adre, ChadReuters Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said on Wednesday. “By December, there will be no assistance,” Pierre Honnorat, Chad country director for the UN agency, told Reuters. “We are calling […]
Mass expulsion: Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million
ARIBA SHAHID and CHARLOTTE GREENFIELD, of Reuters, reports on Pakistan’s crackdown on undocumented migrants…
UN warns of unprecedented refugee challenge as West tightens borders
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The UN refugee agency is facing one of the most difficult moments in its more than 70-year history as record displacements coincide with funding shortfalls and a “short-sighted” focus on border controls, its chief said on Monday. Conflicts from Ukraine to Sudan have contributed to the displacement of some 110 million people around […]
US resumes food aid to refugees in Ethiopia
Washington, US Reuters The United States is resuming food aid to refugees in Ethiopia after assistance was paused earlier this year because donations were being diverted, a senior US Agency for International Development official said. Ethiopia’s food crisis has deepened in recent years as a result of war in the Tigray region and the Horn […]
Haiti’s displaced hope UN-backed force will bring security
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters “We are obliged to accept it,” said Charles Adison in one of the many schools that have been converted into makeshift refugee camps in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, speaking about a UN resolution this week that will see foreign forces entering the country to help police restore order. The United Nations estimates some 200,000 […]