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Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Earlier this year, the International Organization for Migration reported that more than 3 million refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine were “at heightened risk of exploitation.” Human trafficking cases, they warned, involved refugees more likely to leave home suddenly without secure financial resources and “less likely to be identified […]
Advocates want the government to allow more climate-related immigration and to consider those migrants “protected persons.” https://media.wired.com/photos/631b8c2bf2203b5586fabee7/master/pass/ClimateDesk_Science_GettyImages-1034062854.jpg
Tarjimly today launched smartphone app to translate for refugees. The app uses machine learning to recommend volunteers who speak 80 languages.Read More
Nicola Zolin January 21, 2019 Share this article In Italy’s Calabria region, Nicola Zolin charts the rise and fall of a depopulated town, and the mayor who welcomed refugees with open arms and built a special kind of utopia in the process. It’s as if time has stopped. It’s August 2015 and, on this sunny […]
Yazidi refugees are suffering from high rates of a rare condition brought on by psychological trauma known as pseudoseizures, advocates and doctors say. Now, they want the government to do more to reunite them with their families and improve access to mental health supports.
Neil Hall – Pool/Getty Images Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a formal apology on Wednesday for the country’s refusal to take in a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees in 1939. The ship left Germany in 1939 fleeing Nazi persecution. After it was rejected entrance into Canada and other countries, the ship was […]
Nyarugusu on the border of Tanzania and Burundi, one of the largest refugee camps in the world, is an unlikely pioneer in how the telecommunications industry views refugees. Established in 1996, its population of 150,000 makes the camp about the same size as the large British town of Blackburn. Mobile companies have long been called […]
The first Syrian White Helmets have arrived for resettlement to the UK, where officials call them “brave volunteers” and heroes. The group only works in militant-controlled areas and has been seen rubbing shoulders with jihadists. Members of the group and their families will be settled in the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS), […]
Cypriot authorities suspect that ISIS fighters posing as refugees may have entered their country, a local daily reported, amid appeals to the EU to help with an influx of asylum seekers overloading the small island nation. During a random check on asylum seekers’ mobile phones at the country’s refugee processing center, Cypriot authorities found saved […]
Kevin Dietsch via Associated Press The Trump administration reportedly dismissed intelligence findings last year saying that refugees don’t pose a significant threat to the United States. Former government officials told NBC News that a top Justice Department deputy said in a September 2017 meeting that Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn’t agree with the intelligence findings. […]
