Category: Refugees

Children trapped in Greek Island camps attempting suicide and self-harm

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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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US to slash refugee admissions to historic low of 30,000

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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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Human Rights Watch: Refugee children being denied an education in Greece

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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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Norway to cancel refugee status send back 1,600 asylum seekers

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The Norwegian government rejects human rights activists’ claims that this step violates international rules and undermines integration efforts. Norway has announced plans to deprive 1,600 Somali immigrants of their refugee status, as their homeland is considered safe enough to return to, the newspaper Nettavisen reported. According to the Norwegian government, Islamists from al-Shabaab* have been pushed back in Somalia, which despite ongoing battles has evolved …

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Horst Seehofer: Migration mother of all political problems

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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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Over 200,000 people displaced in Afghanistan since beginning of 2018

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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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