Tag: refugees
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Accepting refugees makes sense
Recently, acknowledging the scale of global displacement, the majority of UN member states adopted a global compact for migration. The pact aims to improve global governance on migration-related issues, including promoting legal migration, providing basic services, better integrating new arrivals, tackling human trafficking and coordinating how to send migrants home.
December 18, 2018 -
Bangladesh continues efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar
Bangladesh officials on Thursday travelled to several camps in the western part of the country but did not find any refugee willing to return to Myanmar.
November 16, 2018 -
Critical gap in education for refugee girls: UNHCR
A new report from UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has revealed that refugee girls at the secondary level are only half as likely to enrol in school as their male peers — even though girls make up half of the school-age refugee population. Access to education is a fundamental human right. Yet, for millions of women …
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March 7, 2018 -
Over 80 Syrians rescued off Turkish Mediterranean coast
A total of 84 Syrian refugees have been rescued from an overloaded boat off Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Mersin, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. The overloaded boat carrying 84 Syrians, including women and children, was stranded off Silifke district of Mersin when it ran into engine trouble on Friday, said a statement by Mersin …
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February 4, 2018 -
US lifts ban on refugees from 11 ‘high-risk’ countries
The US has lifted a ban on admissions to refugees from 11 countries whose applicants it designated “high-risk” and announced tougher vetting measures to weed out potential extremists and criminals. The Trump administration on Monday refused to identify the 11 “high-risk” nations, citing “law enforcement sensitivities”. But officials with knowledge of the list said the countries included …
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January 30, 2018 -
Not this week…
The repatriation of an estimated 650,000 Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar has hit the reefs amidst fears that the refugees would be forced to return against their will. Furthermore, misgivings that the minority group, persecuted with equal malevolence by the junta and the Buddhist majority, would be coerced into leaving Bangladesh are not wholly unfounded. …
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January 26, 2018 -
Myanmar ‘ready’ to receive Rohingyas from Bangladesh
Myanmar authorities said on Tuesday that they are ready to initiate a gradual repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh despite an announcement of delay by Dhaka due to incomplete preparations. Speaking at a press conference in Nay Pyi Taw, Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye said Myanmar will receive the …
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January 23, 2018 -
More refugees leave Australian detention centre for US
The second group of refugees held in the Australian-run detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Tuesday left for resettlement in the US under a controversial bilateral deal. Fifty eight refugees left PNG’s Manus Island for the US East Coast, from where they will be resettled individually and in groups across the country, the …
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January 23, 2018 -
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh protest repatriation move
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees staged protests in Bangladesh against plans to send them back to Myanmar, where a military crackdown last year sparked a mass exodus. The refugees chanted slogans and held banners demanding citizenship and guarantees of security before they return to their home state of Rakhine in Myanmar. The protest came ahead of …
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January 19, 2018 -
Hindu refugees eagerly await return to Myanmar
Hindu farmer Surodhon Pal has packed his bags, eager to return to Myanmar after fleeing for Bangladesh during a wave of violence last year, but he is in a tiny minority — most of the refugees are terrified of going home. Bangladesh wants the more than 655,000 refugees who have flooded into the country since …
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January 7, 2018 -
Mizoram provides shelter to 1,300 Myanmar tribals fleeing clashes
The Mizoram government has given shelter and relief to around 1,300 tribals from neighbouring Myanmar’s restive Arakan state who have taken refuge in southern Mizoram, officials said on Monday. “Around 1300 men, women and children have fled from Arakan state and taken refuge in four villages of Lawngtlai district (in southern Mizoram) on Saturday night,” …
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November 27, 2017 -
Kashmiri Pandits submit memorandum to interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma
The Panun Kashmir, an organisation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, on Friday submitted a memorandum to interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma urging the Government of India to take immediate steps to liberate the Pakistan occupied parts of Jammu & Kashmir in consonance with the unanimous resolution passed by the Parliament in 1994. The delegation led by Ashwani Churangoo pointed out that the …
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November 10, 2017 -
Australia refuses New Zealand offer on refugees
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday turned down a renewed offer from New Zealand to resettle some refugees from a Papua New Guinea (PNG) detention centre, the media reported. About 600 men are refusing to leave a de-commissioned Australian centre on Manus Island saying they fear attacks from locals, reports the BBC. Turnbull said …
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November 5, 2017 -
Is India missing a trick with Rohingya crisis?
The Rohingya Muslims induce perceptible fear and suspicion among many south Asian states. In some they are treated as illegal immigrants, while in others they are represented as a threat to national security. The Rohingya are however considered by the United Nations to be one of the most persecuted communities in the world. Tens of …
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October 25, 2017 -
Nearly 590,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh threatened by diseases: UN
Nearly 590,00 Rohingya refugees have been admitted to camps in Bangladesh and 320,00 refugee children among them are threatened by water-borne diseases and desperate living conditions, a UN spokesman said Friday. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 589,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State since alleged retaliation following a …
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October 21, 2017 -
Rohingya influx poses security challenge
Bangladesh-Myanmar border areas are teeming with Rohingya refugees now numbering well over half a million. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has elevated her stature several notches by organising massive humanitarian assistance and supply of relief material to the arriving refugees. This is not because they are Muslims but because she has improved her own image by …
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October 20, 2017 -
10,000-15,000 Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh in 48 hours
Between 10,000 and 15,000 Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh over the last 48 hours, taking the total number of the Muslim minority to have fled Myanmar to 582,000, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Tuesday. These refugees were waiting to be registered by the Bangladeshi authorities before being transferred to camps raised …
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October 17, 2017