Refugees
UN Calls for End to Migrant Child Detention Worldwide
Effects of detention on migrant children include nightmares, insomnia, depression and anxiety.
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Italy Arrests ‘Torturers’ After Migrants Denounce Libya Camp Horrors
Their accusers described a catalog of abuse including the systematic rape of women and the murder of some migrants
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600,000 Rohingya Still in Myanmar at ‘Serious Risk of Genocide:’ UN
"Myanmar continues to harbor genocidal intent and the Rohingya remain under serious risk of genocide," the investigators said in their...
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Italy Pushing for Automatic EU Migrant Sharing System
Should the deal take off, Rome would agree to reopen its ports to vessels which save migrants at sea, reversing...
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Inside Lampedusa, the Front Line of Europe’s Migration Crisis
The "closed ports" policies of the prior Italian government culminated in a humanitarian and political crisis. With a new government...
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Bangladesh Cuts Mobile Internet Access in Rohingya Camps
Bangladesh cut access to 3G and 4G internet in Rohingya camps Tuesday, in a further clampdown on communications among the...
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EU Migration Proposal Sparks Outrage for Use of Far-Right Rhetoric
An EU Commission proposal to brand its powerful migration portfolio as "protecting the European way of life" sparked outrage from...
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Morocco Cracks Down on Migrants as Spain and EU Pay Out
While Madrid praises its cooperation with Rabat, human rights groups accuse Morocco of forcibly preventing migrants form boarding boats to...
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MSF Condemns EU Policy Causing ‘Unacceptable’ Conditions for Migrants on Greek Islands
MFS’s pediatric mental health teams working on Lesbos said that in the months of July and August, of the 73...
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Bangladesh Bans Two Aid Agencies from Rohingya Refugee Camps
Other humanitarian agencies including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have also consistently expressed concerns over the repatriation efforts.
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Greek Police Fire Teargas as Child Migrants Protest Conditions in Camps
"We left Moria hoping for something better," said Sazan, a 20-year-old Afghan, referring to the main camp on Lesbos. "And...
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Hundreds of Migrants Moved From ‘Hell’ of Overcrowded Greek Island
Greek officials and U.N. workers began evacuating hundreds of migrants from the Greek island of Lesbos Monday.
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UN to ‘Facilitate’ Evacuations from ‘Abysmal’ Syrian Desert Camp
"The situation is desperate," Moumtzis said, describing Rukban as one of the hardest places to reach in Syria for humanitarian...
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Lebanon ‘Forcibly Deported’ Nearly 2,500 Syrian Refugees: Amnesty
Earlier this month, the army destroyed a further 350 structures in the north of the country and arrested dozens of...
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200,000 Rohingya Rally to Mark ‘Genocide Day’ in Bangladesh Camps
The U.N. last year called for Myanmar's top generals to be prosecuted for genocide over the crisis.
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No Rohingya Turn Up for Repatriation to Myanmar
U.N. investigators say the 2017 violence warrants the prosecution of top generals for "genocide" and the International Criminal Court has...
Read more‘I’m Here 24/7:’ Rohingya Youths Share Their Stories on Social Media
"The idea behind it is to be able to hand back the narrative to the people that we are already...
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Spanish Navy to Save Migrants Stranded Off Italy as Situation Nears Breaking Point
The announcement came after 15 migrants jumped into the water in desperation - some without life jacket - as the...
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Bangladesh to Repatriate 3,500 Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar
Some 740,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in August 2017 from a military offensive in Myanmar - joining 200,000 already there...
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Amid Migration Crisis, Central American Development Must Center Women: NGO
“When a woman is able to sustain herself and have an income, she then becomes a human being. Not only...
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