Tag: Refugee

The Refugee Crisis Isn’t Isolated to One Country

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January 11, 2024

Displaced people are found worldwide in unprecedented numbers.

Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States depart Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Sunday, October 21, 2018. (AP Photo / Moises Castillo)

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Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us

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The Progressive Refugee Policy That Puts the West to Shame

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December 12, 2023

Uganda’s role as a co-convenor of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva this week should raise urgent questions about the interests behind its much-lauded open-door refugee policy.

Children walk along a road in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in northwestern Uganda. (Gioia Forster / Picture Alliance via Getty)

Kampala—“I’m barely surviving in Uganda, but I am still alive,” says a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo whom I’ll call Joseph,

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Hamas officials say Israeli strike has hit another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ 15 people – as IDF tanks and troops close in on Gaza City

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Hamas officials today said an Israeli air strike slammed into another refugee camp, ‘massacring’ at least 15 people with dozens more trapped under the rubble.

The large explosion ripped through clusters of homes in the densely packed Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a deep, debris-littered crater in its wake.

Exhausted Palestinians desperately searched through the rubble of their homes for loved ones, their screams piercing the air as they found the lifeless bodies of their mothers and children.

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Israel say they carried out airstrike that Hamas claim killed more than 50 people at Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp: ‘Dozens of bodies’ are recovered after site is reduced to giant crater – IDF claim their jets took out senior jihadi commander

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Israel has confirmed that it was behind an airstrike at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where the Hamas-run health authority has claimed more than 50 people have been killed and 150 wounded.

Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israeli fighter jets carried out the attack, which he claimed killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the terror group’s underground infrastructure to collapse. 

The IDF claimed that Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas’s Central

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At Least 5 People Killed in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon

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BEIRUT — Rival factions clashed in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon for a third straight day on Monday in an eruption of violence that has left at least 11 people dead since it began.

The fighting in Ein al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, was set off by the killing on Saturday of a leader of the Fatah faction and four of his bodyguards by another Palestinian group, according to Lebanese state media and a Fatah

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Syrian refugee stabs a child in its pram in front of screaming mother as four kids knifed in France

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A Syrian refugee screamed ‘in the name of Jesus Christ’ as he repeatedly stabbed a toddler in his pram in front of his screaming mother in a frenzied attack at a French playground that saw four children – including a British girl – knifed.

The attacker, identified as Abdalmash H, 31, clinched onto a necklace with a crucifix on it before he launched his ‘abominable’ rampage in a lakeside park in the town of Annecy, a tourist hotspot in southeastern 

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Refugee Diaries: Part 4 – POLITICO

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After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, we asked eight refugees to keep a sort of digital diary while they adjusted to lives far from everything they knew. As the conflict reaches its one-year anniversary, we asked them how things have changed since then — for them, for Ukraine and for their lives in their adopted homes.

Larysa Deshko

Location: The Netherlands

Larysa now lives with her oldest daughter Anna in the Netherlands

This war showed the

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Meet churchgoing mother accused of modern slavery… by Ukrainian refugee she welcomed into her home

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During one of their initial getting-to-know-you phone calls, Hannah Debenham recalls telling the Ukrainian refugee who she would soon be welcoming into her home of her hopes that together they could make something positive from the atrocity of war. 

‘I told her it was our opportunity to create something lovely,’ she recalls. 

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Today, that sentiment is laced with bitter irony for Hannah; just three weeks

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Woman dumped by the father of her two children for Ukrainian refugee says he has apologised

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A British security guard who ran off with the Ukrainian refugee he gave a home to has said sorry to the former partner he ditched for his affair.

But Lorna Garnett, 28, said a reconciliation with the father of her two daughters, Tony, was not on the cards after he dumped his new lover.

She spoke out as she talked things over with Tony, 30, for the first time since he walked out on her to be with Sofiia Karkadym,

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Man, 49, arrested in Poland over ‘rape of 19-year-old refugee he promised to help and shelter’

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A man has been arrested in Poland on suspicion of raping a 19-year-old refugee at a camp by luring her in with the offer of shelter after she had just escaped from war-torn Ukraine.

On Thursday Police in Wroclaw, Poland, detained a 49-year-old suspect on rape charges after he allegedly assaulted a 19-year-old Ukrainian refugee he lured with offers of help over the internet.

The suspect could face up to 12 years in prison for the ‘brutal crime,’ authorities said.

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