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Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, stresses senior UN official

Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, stresses senior UN official

Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, and the broader migrant community, including economic migrants, cannot be dismissed “with a wave of the hand,” the top United Nations official dealing with migration said today. “I’d like to start by making a fundamental point which I think has been overlooked in quite a lot […]

Denmark No Longer Welcoming Refugees: Rejected Asylum Seekers To Leave Denmark

Denmark No Longer Welcoming Refugees: Rejected Asylum Seekers To Leave Denmark

Denmark has placed adverts in several Lebanese newspapers warning would-be migrants about new and tighter restrictions on those seeking asylum in the country. The adverts appeared in at least three Arabic-language newspapers and one English-language daily in Lebanon on Monday. “Denmark has decided to tighten the regulations concerning refugees in a number of areas,” the […]

Naguib Sawiris, Egyptian Billionaire Offers To Buy An Island To Rehouse Syrian Refugees

Naguib Sawiris, Egyptian Billionaire Offers To Buy An Island To Rehouse Syrian Refugees

In a television interview Swairis said he would approach the governments of Greece and Italy, saying there would be “temporary shelters to house the people, then you start employing the people to build housing, schools, universities, hospitals. “And if things improve, whoever wants to go back (to their homeland) goes back.” But he admitted his […]

Independent takes the decision to publish sobering photographs of the human cost of the current refugee crisis

Independent takes the decision to publish sobering photographs of the human cost of the current refugee crisis

The pictures show a small boy lying face down in the sand on a Turkish beach as an official stands over him. The child, who is thought to be Syrian, has drowned in an apparent attempt to flee the war ravaging his country. They are extraordinary images and serve as a stark reminder that, as […]

At Least 600 Migrants Drown as Boat Capsizes in the Mediterranean

At Least 600 Migrants Drown as Boat Capsizes in the Mediterranean

Hundreds of migrants are feared to have drowned today after a fishing boat carrying them capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of northern Libya. Varying reports estimate that between 600-700 migrants were onboard the vessel when it flipped. The boat was reportedly around 68 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of the Libyan capital of […]

We never knew Chinese immigrants can be so valuable says Spain

We never knew Chinese immigrants can be so valuable says Spain

When **** Jia Jia’s parents first moved to Barcelona from China in the 1990s, they had no working permit and spoke no Spanish. The family ate eggs to survive. Her mother and father worked 12-hour a day at a Chinese restaurant. After five years, they bought a restaurant by compounding their own money and money […]

Bangladeshi migrants: HK is ‘not for humans to live’

Bangladeshi migrants: HK is ‘not for humans to live’

Hong Kong, one of the world’s richest and most developed cities known for its flashy billionaires and upper-class lifestyle, transmits an image of prosperity, comfort and convenience. It is the wealth hub of the Chinese world, a city that hosted 3 of the 5 wealthiest men in Asia, but beyond the facade of pristine skyscrapers […]

Truth About Eritrea’s ‘Economic Migrants’

Truth About Eritrea’s ‘Economic Migrants’

The United Nations refugee agency has just announced that more people are on the move – driven from their homes by conflict and human rights abuses – than at any other time in history: 59.5 million to be precise. Yet governments all over the globe contend that most of these people, who risk their lives […]

Nigeria Human Trafficking ‘Top Priority’, Says Commissioner

Nigeria Human Trafficking ‘Top Priority’, Says Commissioner

Clamping down on the problem of Nigerians being trafficked to the UK is a main priority, the first independent anti-slavery commissioner says. Kevin Hyland told the BBC it was “deeply concerning” that hundreds of Nigerians were brought in every year for prostitution or forced labour. Mr Hyland said the problem of such exploitation was “enormous”. […]

Nigerian Migrants to Europe Not Halted By Visa Rejections

Nigerian Migrants to Europe Not Halted By Visa Rejections

In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why Nigerians put their lives at risk and opt for dangerous routes to Europe when they fail to get visas. Even the official route for Africans wishing to visit the West is paved with indignity. I still have vivid memories […]

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