カテゴリー: Migration
Exclusive: Workers in Portugal picking berries ending up on the shelves of Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Tesco allege exploitative conditionsPhotographs by Francesco Brembati for the GuardianFarm workers in Portugal appear to have been working ille…
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A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Mexico to Manila Continue reading…
From Greece the women are advocating for fellow refugees – and those left behind under Taliban ruleIt is a Saturday morning in November, and Afghan MP Nazifa Yousufi Bek gathers up her notes and prepares to head for the office. But instead of jumping i…
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International rescue effort brings 130 young footballers and their families to London after Taliban takeoverShortly before 4am on Thursday morning, a private chartered plane touched down on a freezing London runway. On board were 130 exhausted, nervous…
After a vicious beating, Fatima Ahmadi fled Afghanistan with her children for Pakistan. But her pleas for asylum in the west are met by silenceFatima Ahmadi only stopped screaming when the Taliban held a knife to her child’s throat, and told her: “Shut…
Vessel allowed to disembark almost 400 people in Aegean port of Kos in ‘unusual and special case’After roaming the high seas for four days as Greece and Turkey haggled over its fate, a cargo ship packed with hundreds of Afghan refugees has been allowed…
Activists highlight the poverty, stigma and abuse faced by women deserted by spouses living abroad Kamala Reddy*, 33, a software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, married Vijay Kumar* in a traditional Hindu wedding in 2012. Kumar, who was working in the UK…
Migrants, many fleeing the Taliban regime, claim they are being beaten, harassed and turned back by Turkish border forcesAs the sun sets over a dusty ravine on the outskirts of Van city in eastern Turkey, Muhammdullah Sangeen and dozens of other Afghan…
Advocates call for special intake for at-risk groups given surging demand after fall of KabulGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingMore than 100,000 Afghan nationals are seeking humanitarian visas from Australia, officials have revealed,…
Former Afghan government’s ambassador in Greece appalled by Athens’ media blitz against ‘illegal migrant flows’In other times, Mirwais Samadi would have welcomed a campaign to deter his compatriots from opting to become illegal migrants and embarking o…
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Group run by Sydney-based woman known as the ‘mother of a thousand’ is working to rescue as many children as possibleGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAs the Taliban tightened its grip on power in Afghanistan – casting girls from sch…