A migrant trawler carrying Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis overturned en route to Malaysia, prompting a massive rescue effort and renewed warnings over dangerous sea crossings.
Pakistan has only itself to blame for its current imbroglio. While the world was aware of the intent of the US and Israel over Iran and braced for deployment of the second carrier group for hostilities to commence, the failed marshal assumed that this was the right time to teach Afghanistan a lesson.
The number of Afghan nationals arrested and detained in Pakistan surged by 146 per cent in a single week, a spike linked to the reopening of border crossings, according to a joint report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Dawn reported.
The top court expressed concern over the UN agency's practice of issuing such cards in the country, amid growing judicial concern over the operations of international bodies in India.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has begun the relocation of refugees fleeing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Burundi.
It also called on the Libyan authorities to "respect at all times the human rights and dignity of asylum-seekers and refugees, stop their arrests and release those detained".
Al-Koni also stressed the importance of addressing illegal migration in Libya's southern border rather than at sea where illegal migrants cross towards Europe, according to the statement
In fact, a displacement crisis is taking place inside Afghanistan, Xinhua news agency quoted UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch as saying in a statement.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has asked the UN to provide the organization with $12 million to provide food for in-need Afghans.
Against this international backdrop, and with the world’s richest and most powerful country, the USA, showing no visible signs of wanting to take the lead on the refugee issue, very little counts.
