Asylum seekers who are refusing to leave an Australian detention centre in Papua New Guinea say they are digging into the ground to find water, two days after the camp officially closed. About 600 men at the centre on Manus Island do not want to leave, saying they fear being attacked outside. Australia holds asylum …
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On the inauguration day of the 33rd “Restos du Coeur” winter campaign, the president of the republic was firm on the question of his policy of right of asylum. Speaking to the woman who was trying to claim French papers, Macron took his time to explain to her that France cannot hand out citizenship to …
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Authorities are investigating the apparent suicide of an 11-year-old Afghan boy at a refugee camp in Austria. The child had reportedly been struggling to help care for his six siblings at the camp in Baden, south of Vienna, where they had lived since last year. He died a day after being taken to hospital in …
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An Algerian man has died two days after he was treated “roughly” by Danish police on board an aircraft while being deported to Paris, Anadolu reported on Friday. A report in the Danish tabloid Extra Bladet said that the 34-year-old was escorted by police to Copenhagen Airport on Monday for deportation. A struggle apparently took …
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Hundreds of refugees near the Moria camp on the Greek island, Lesvos are facing “critical” conditions due to overpopulation. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, refugees tell tales of need, of the little they have to protect themselves from the rain, the cold, of safety issues and bad sanitation conditions. Sherife al-Hassoun, 65, from Syria’s Deir ez-Zor, …
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Papua New Guinea police have removed dozens of asylum seekers from the Manus Island detention centre and put pressure on hundreds of others to leave, more than three weeks after the camp was decommissioned. Refugees inside the centre reported large numbers of officers, including the paramilitary police mobile squad, entered the centre on Thursday and …
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The Spanish government has been forced to defend its decision to house around 500 recently-arrived asylum seekers in a prison, following harsh criticism by human rights groups and NGOs, who slammed it as an “unfair criminalization” of migrants. Madrid justified its actions by saying that nearly a thousand asylum seekers landed on Spanish shores by …
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More than 50,000 children in Yemen are expected to die by the end of the year as a result of disease and starvation caused by the stalemated war in the country, Save the Children has warned. Seven million people are on the brink of famine in the country, which is in the grips of the …
The EU’s policy of aiding Libyan authorities to intercept migrants and return them to detention is “inhuman”, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN’s human rights chief accused European countries of ignoring warnings over the deal struck with Libya. Authorities say it has caused detainees to rise sharply to almost 20,000. UN monitors who …
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The United Nations is warning that more than half a million Rohingya refugees who have fled Rakhine since August are at risk of exploitation in Bangladesh. One woman told Nomia Iqbal, from the BBC’s Newsday programme, how she had been groomed and forced into prostitution after fleeing. With her face covered in a pink scarf, …
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