A European court has ordered France to pay 15,000 euros ($A24,000) in compensation to an Afghan child who lived for about six months in the so-called “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais. In February 2016, as French authorities moved to demolish the southern part of the informal camp, a court ordered the government to place the …
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A newly-launched response plan for the Rohingya crisis needs urgent funding, the UN envoy for Myanmar said on Feb. 28. Christine Schraner Burgener, UN secretary-general’s special representative for Myanmar, told the Security Council that the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are living in “extremely challenging” conditions in Cox’s Bazar of southeastern Bangladesh. UN figures showed that …
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Lebanon is continuing to send back small groups of refugees to Syria. In the past 24 hours, dozens of refugees who had fled the war in Syria have been returned from different parts of Lebanon. Lebanon has hosted about one million refugees since the start of the war in 2011. The local population is four …
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Police have used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse refugees and migrants during a second day of scuffles outside a camp in northern Greece. Since Thursday, hundreds of people stuck in Greece have arrived at a field next to the camp in Diavata, close to the second city of Thessaloniki, in the hope of travelling …
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A humanitarian aid ship carrying 64 rescued migrants was holding position in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday as both Italy and Malta refused it safe harbour, leaving the migrants sleeping in cramped conditions on deck as a storm approached. Their refusal sets the stage for another Mediterranean migrant standoff that can only be resolved if some European …
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Hungarian authorities are systematically denying food to failed asylum seekers detained in the country’s border transit zones, say rights activists. The policy, whereby adults whose asylum claims have been rejected are denied food, was described as “an unprecedented human rights violation in 21st-century Europe” by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights organisation working to …
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A Palestinian man was killed during a clash with Israeli forces in a refugee camp near Jerusalem yesterday night amid the arrest of three brothers. Mohammed Adwan, 23, was killed by Israeli gunfire whilst two others were wounded. Soldiers fired at close range at a Palestinian vehicle driving at al-Matar Street, killing Adwan in his …
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The Dutch immigration service IND is sending Yezidi asylum seekers back to refugee camps in northern Iraq, arguing that they have sufficient access to food and other facilities, Trouw reported at the weekend. Lawyers specializing in asylum law told the paper that they fear the decision to send Yezidis back to the camps is new …
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The White House on March 31 doubled down on President Donald Trump’s decision to cut off aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, saying the small Central American nations were not doing enough to stop the flow of migrants to the US. The White House reignited the issue of immigration this week, amid a surge in …
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Lara Trump has denounced Germany’s acceptance of refugees, claiming Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policies have led to the European nation’s “downfall”. Ms Trump, who serves as the face of Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, joined Fox Business to discuss the president’s immigration agenda when she made the controversial remarks about the influx of people in 2015. “It …
