The Sea-Watch 3 NGO boat carrying dozens of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean headed for Lampedusa island on June 26 despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy’s far-right interior minister. “I’ve decided to enter the port of Lampedusa,” Sea-Watch tweeted Captain Carola Rackete as saying. “I know this is risky, but the 42 shipwrecked on board …
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The grim reality of the migration crisis unfolding on America’s southern border has been captured in photographs showing the lifeless bodies of a Salvadoran father and his daughter who drowned as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande into Texas. The images, taken on June 24, show Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 26, and his daughter Valeria, …
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Four human traffickers have been sentenced to life in prison by a Hungarian court for the deaths of 71 migrants found inside an abandoned truck in Austria, Reuters reported on June 20. The bodies of the migrants were found by police in August 2015, decomposing in the heat in the truck on the A4 highway which links Vienna …
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UNRWA records indicated that the number of registered Palestinian refugees in 2018 amounted up to about 6 million and those figures represented the minimum number of Palestinian refugees, where they constitute almost half of the Palestinians in the world (about 13 million), said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statics (PCBS) on the occasion of the International …
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A six-year-old girl from India died of heat stroke in an Arizona desert after her mother left her with other migrants to go in search of water, a medical examiner and U.S. Border Patrol said on Friday. The girl, Gurupreet Kaur, soon to celebrate her seventh birthday, was found by U.S. Border Patrol west of …
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Almost a quarter of British children do not know the meaning of the word “refugee”, according to a new survey, amid mounting evidence of a growth in negative sentiments and scepticism towards those seeking asylum in the UK. Just over half of teachers (52 per cent) spoken to by the British Red Cross (BRC) said they had witnessed “anti-refugee” …
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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini allowed 10 of the 53 migrants stranded on the Sea-Watch 3 rescue ship to disembark on Saturday, but pressed ahead with plans to ban such boats from Italian territorial waters. The 10 rescued migrants, including two pregnant women and three minors according to local media, were brought to the island …
The 18-article decree brings in fines of up to €50,000 for the captain, owner and operator of a vessel “entering Italian territorial waters without authorisation”, Salvini told reporters on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting. Although charity vessels which rescue thousands of migrants are not mentioned they would be hit, with Salvini saying repeat offences would …
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The Children’s Rights Committee of the Council of Europe said that in the migrant transit zones along the Serbian-Hungarian border, there is a lack of effective measures to protect child migrants and asylum seekers from sexual abuse. A report by the Children’s Rights Committee of the Council of Europe “deplores” the lack of effective measures …
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A French court has sentenced an imam to two years of jail for providing migrants with inflatable boats to reach Great Britain through the English Channel. The man, a 39-year old political refugee from Iran, fainted as the criminal court announced on Monday his immediate incarceration. Another 29-year old Senegalese man who attended the Mosque …
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