More than half a million Venezuelans have crossed into Ecuador this year as part of one of the largest mass migrations in Latin American history, the United Nations said on Aug. 17. About 547,000 citizens of the crisis-stricken South American country have entered Ecuador since January – mostly through its northern border with Colombia – to escape …
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A plane arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul on 15 Aug. with 46 rejected Afghan asylum seekers deported from Germany, airport officials told journalists. The collective deportation was the 15th such flight since December 2016. Including Wednesday’s flight, some 350 people have been forcibly returned to Kabul after their asylum applications were turned down. Last month, a failed …
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A Brazilian judge has ordered the border crossing from Venezuela closed to Venezuelan immigrants fleeing their country’s economic and political turmoil but the border remained open on Aug. 6 pending an appeal by the federal government. Hundreds of Venezuelans continued to walk across into Brazil, a border official said. Federal judge Helder Barreto on Sunday ordered …
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Police in the US state of New Mexico have rescued 11 malnourished children who were being kept in squalid conditions in a remote desert compound. They said the children, aged one to 15, had no shoes, were wearing rags and “looked like Third World refugees”. Five adults were found at the scene, including two heavily …
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Immigrant children are being routinely and forcibly given a range of psychotropic drugs at U.S. government-funded youth shelters to manage their trauma after being detained and in some cases separated from parents, according to a lawsuit. Children held at facilities such as the Shiloh Treatment Center in Texas are almost certain to be administered the …
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The Greens party legal officer was escorted from a plane at Helsinki Airport after she refused to sit down, in protest of a fellow passenger’s deportation. Police at Helsinki Airport removed Aino Pennanen, the legal officer of Finland’s Greens party, from a plane for refusing to be seated. Pennanen said she was protesting the deportation …
Four million refugee children do not attend school, an increase of half a million from a year earlier, a UN report warned on Aug. 29. “While the population uprooted by wars and persecution is on the rise worldwide, the numbers of refugee children enrolled in schools is failing to keep pace,” a new report by …
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Austria is set to bar asylum-seekers from taking up vacant training spaces while their claims are still being assessed. It marks the latest in a spate of restrictions placed on migrants by the right-wing government. Asylum-seekers in Austria will no longer be able to apply for apprenticeship schemes, as part of a draft regulation presented by …
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A mother’s reunion with her young son following a four-month ICE separation turned to heartache when the traumatized boy appeared to not recognize her. Video recorded by the ACLU shows little Sammy acting nervous and confused when his mother tried to comfort him at a Houston airport. Sammy’s father Ever Reyes-Mejia and the 3-year-old boy …
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At Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, there is deadly violence, overcrowding, appalling sanitary conditions and now a charity says children as young as 10 are attempting suicide. The Victoria Derbyshire programme has been given rare access inside. “We are always ready to escape, 24 hours a day we have our children ready,” …
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