The Australian government commissioned a $6 million movie showing what might happen to asylum seekers on their journey to deter Afghan asylum seekers wishing to arrive in the country. On the request of the government in Australia, a movie aiming to scare away Afghan migrants was shot. Commissioned by the Australian Department of Immigration and …
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Preparations are on the way for the first refugee group to be sent back to Turkey from Greece. Almost 6,000 refugees, mostly citizens of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are held near the Port of Piraeus and are to be sent to Turkey. The measures predicated by the refugee admission agreement between Turkey and the EU …
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Travelers full of hope started to resist as the agreement between Turkey and the EU entered into force. Not desiring to be sent back to Turkey, refugees demonstrated by tearing down the razor fire fence on Chios. Greek police managed to take control of the nearly 300 refugees who left the holding center. In the …
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The European Union (EU) is abandoning all pretense of human rights restraints in its refugee policy. A strategy paper published last week by the EU Commission outlined migration partnerships that will compensate nine states in Africa and the Middle East, both transit countries and countries of origin, for their cooperation in deterring refugees. The goal …
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Hundreds of thousands could become trapped in Greece after Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia announce frontier closures. European leaders claim to have closed the main refugee route to northern Europe, raising the possibility of tens if not hundreds of thousands of refugees being trapped in Greece while the EU attempts to finalise a deal that could …
UMHD President Uğur Yıldırım offered insights from the report during a press conference, saying that analysts had observed refugees and their living conditions in refugee camps in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. According to the report, European countries erected official refugee camps as well as unofficial camps in such places as former athletics halls, …
Germany does not extend the same rights to refugee children as it does to native-born children, UNICEF has said. This was worrying for a group in need of special care, the children’s organization has warned. The UN children’s organization UNICEF published a report on Tuesday decrying the circumstances of refugee children in Germany. According to …
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German authorities are not properly investigating attacks against migrants and refugees and often ignore racist motives behind these attacks, Amnesty International said Thursday. The human rights group warned about the sharp increase in racist violence in Germany in recent years and also criticized authorities’ ineffective response, in an 80-page report released at a press conference …
A Syrian migrant drowned in the Tisza river last week as he was trying to cross from Serbia to Hungary, police said on Monday, and the U.N. refugee agency blamed Hungary for adopting a policy that forced many migrants to take hazardous routes. Police confirmed the death of the 22-year-old man in a reply to …
Robert Fico has begun his third term as Slovakia’s prime minister by stepping up his anti-Muslim rhetoric just weeks before the country takes over the EU Council presidency. “It may look strange but sorry … Islam has no place in Slovakia,” Fico told the TASR newswire Wednesday. The problem is not migrants coming in, he …
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