GENEVA (AA): EU faces challenges as arrivals increase and applications for asylum reach record highs, the executive director of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has said. Presenting Asylum Report 2023 on figures of last year to the European Parliament, Nina Gregori said it was “quite dramatic and unprecedented year.” In ...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): The UK government’s controversial plans to stop the thousands of hapless migrants arriving on British shores in small boats has finally cleared their last parliamentary hurdle. Members of the non elected Upper House defeated a string of challenges to the government’s Illegal Migration Bill — cent...
IDLIB, Syria (AA): Non-governmental organizations protested against Russia on Monday in Syria’s Idlib, denouncing its blocking of humanitarian aid sent by the United Nations to the country. Various NGO officials, who assembled in front of the Bab al-Hawa border gate, situated opposite the Cilvegozu border gate in Reyhanli district of sou...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): Some 289 children are known to have died in the first half of 2023 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the United Nations has said. The figure is double that recorded in the first six months of 2022, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said, as it called for expanded […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian rights groups called on Friday for emergency aid and shelters for migrants expelled from Sfax last week, as dozens of people protested in Tunis in support of their plight. Hundreds of migrants fled or were forced out of Tunisia’s second-largest city after racial tensions flared following the July 3 killing ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): A top US rights envoy in Bangladesh said Thursday that conditions remain unsafe for the return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, with Washington pledging further aid for the crisis. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanm...
TEL AVIV, Israel – In a rare move, Israeli prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a Jewish settler accused of vandalizing a mosque in the occupied West Bank. The vandalism was part of a series of anti-Palestinian riots perpetrated by hundreds of settlers last month. The U.S. recently called on Israel to take action against [&he...
Three Uyghur groups have received grants from the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity for raising awareness about China’s actions against their community. The grants, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, were awarded to organizations working for Uyghur rights, education and the preservation of Uighur culture. Two of the groups, the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has expressed concern over food ration cuts for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Last month, the World Food Program (WFP) was forced to cut food rations for Rohingya refugees following a funding shortfall. Khan led a 10-member delegation to Bangladesh last week, where he ...
Ben Guerdane, Tunisia (AFP): More than 600 migrants forced out of Tunisia’s port of Sfax to the desert borderlands with Libya are being sheltered and given humanitarian aid, the Red Crescent said on Wednesday. However, smaller groups of people remain stranded near the frontiers with Algeria and Libya. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Sahara...
