The German minister has claimed migration is at the heart of society’s disillusionment with politics. Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, said she would have put it a bit differently and called migration a “challenge.” German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, head of the CSU, the conservative sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU, has said that migration …
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More than 200,000 people have been displaced in Afghanistan since the beginning of the year due to conflict, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said. A total of 206,615 people were displaced between January 1 and September 2, according to a report published late Tuesday. The figure is up …
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Two Armenian children who have spent most of their lives in the Netherlands face imminent deportation after emerging from hiding following a failed asylum plea. Howick, 13, and his sister Lily, 12, came to the Netherlands with their mother in 2008. Their mother was deported last year and the children’s friends have rallied around them, …
France is pushing for the Aquarius to dock and disembark dozens of migrants in Malta, a presidential source said on September 25, after the ship’s Panamanian registration was revoked over the weekend. “We are clear on the fact that it shouldn’t spend four to five days at sea going towards France or Spain or anywhere,” …
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On September 20, a 48-year-old woman denounced an assault she claimed to have been a victim. She recounted cycling near the Galamé Park in Loon-Plage when she was attacked by a group of seven to eight people. She said she had two cuts on the legs, and a blow to the head. She had been stitched up with eight stitches. …
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They’ve come from as far as Iran and Afghanistan, Somalia and Myanmar. But the children are now stuck on Nauru, a desolate island in the South Pacific that’s little more than eight miles square. They’re caught in a strict Australian immigration system that has left them stranded. Some of them have become so depressed after …
Medical teams working with asylum seekers on Greek islands are seeing multiple cases each week of minors who have attempted suicide or otherwise harmed themselves, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said, calling for the immediate evacuation of vulnerable people, especially children, to the Greek mainland or within the European Union. More …
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The US will allow no more than 30,000 refugees into the country in the coming year, down by a third from last year’s cap, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has announced. The latest cut reflects a victory by White House hardliners on immigration over both the state department and the Pentagon. When Donald Trump took …
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Report by Refugee Rights Europe says 94 percent of refugees in Brussels sleep rough and majority don’t get enough food. Refugees in the Belgian capital, Brussels, are living in “untenable” conditions with many sleeping rough and without access to sufficient food, a report by Refugee Rights Europe (RRE) has warned. Researchers found that 94 percent …
The new school year begins in Greece, but a recent Human Rights Watch report has found that refugee children on Greek islands are being denied access to education. The rights group estimates in its latest report that about 12,000 school-aged children were living on the Greek islands, but only 400 were enrolled in formal classes. …
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