Returning to ruined city, Libyan family struggles to rebuild
Sirte, LibyaReuters Displaced for years by war, the Mokhtar family is set on reoccupying their home in Libya’s ruined city of Sirte but bitter that they are repairing the shell-cratered apartment with almost no help. The central coastal city, once home to 80,000, was smashed repeatedly as it passed from one side to another in […]
Don’t send migrants back to Libya and “inhumane” camps – Pope
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned plea to end the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to Libya and other unsafe countries where they suffer “inhumane violence”. Francis also waded into a highly contentious political debate in Europe, calling on the international community to find concrete ways to manage the “migratory […]
Mexico sends 70 Haitian migrants back home by plane
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a “voluntary return” flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian migrants from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas. Mexico’s interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that […]
Amnesty International says Syrian refugees tortured on return
Beirut, LebanonReuters Amnesty International said on Tuesday Syrian refugees who returned home were subjected to torture, detention and disappearance by security forces, urging governments to protect them from deportation and forcible return. In a report titled You’re going to your death the London-based human rights group documented violations by intelligence officers against 66 returnees, including […]
PIGS FOR PEACE: WINDING BACK FROM WAR IN COLOMBIA
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how peace is being settled in the conflict-torn South American nation…
“Broken dreams” – Bangladesh’s returning migrants struggle at home
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Like many poor Bangladeshis, Komol Shohlagar thought moving overseas for work would change his life. It did – but not in the way he hoped. Shohlagar, 33, travelled to Libya with people smugglers in the hope of reaching Europe, but when he got there, the smugglers held him captive to extort […]
Promised land and homes, Sri Lankan refugees to return from India
Thomson Reuters Foundation Thousands of Sri Lankan refugees living in India are ready to return to their homeland decades after fleeing civil war, according to a rights group that said returnees will receive a plot of land and other assistance. Nearly 4,000 of more than 62,000 refugees living in camps in the south Indian state […]
UGANDA: RETURNING LRA HOSTAGES FACE NEW ORDEAL OVER LAND CONFLICTS
SALLY HAYDEN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the hardships facing returning hostages in rural Uganda…
Christians on alert as Iraqi forces take over Nineveh Plains
World Watch Monitor Christian returnees have lunch together in Bashiqa, August, 2017. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Christians who have returned to the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, three years after fleeing Islamic State militants, are on high alert now Iraqi forces have retaken some of the disputed region from Kurdish forces. Father Poulos, one of […]
IRAQ: CHRISTIANS RETURNING HOME FACE MANY HURDLES
World Watch Monitor reports on the difficulties facing Christians as they return to homes in ares previously occupied by the so-called Islamic State…