カテゴリー: Refugees
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Mudassar Kadir said ‘zero progress’ made since he and his family arrived at Dubai refugee centreAn Afghan former BBC journalist who managed to flee the Taliban has been stranded in a refugee camp for months because of delays to a resettlement scheme pr…
Long-awaited scheme for 20,000 opens as charities seek clarity on how it will workThe government has announced that the long-awaited Afghan citizens resettlement scheme will start in January 2022.The programme will provide support for up to 20,000 Afgh…
Activists lament that a safe, legal way into Britain has closed with Brexit, when stranded children need it as much as ever‘When I was a child in Afghanistan I loved to watch my uncle play chess. Now I have joined the local club here.” Samir is grinnin…
Afghan resettlement scheme still not up and running four months after fall of Kabul, says Refugee CouncilThe UK’s failure to create safe routes for vulnerable Afghans is forcing thousands to make the “gut-wrenching” decision to embark on “perilous, lif…
Thousands are still at the Taliban’s mercy in Afghanistan, and expert warns that ‘politically expedient’ initiative may now witherPriti Patel’s much-trumpeted scheme to allow Afghans to resettle in Britain has been starved of “appropriate resources”, a…
MPs’ inquiry given further details of Britain’s mismanagement of Afghanistan exit with ‘people left to die at the hands of the Taliban’Further evidence alleging that the government seriously mishandled the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been handed to…
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MPs said to have confronted home secretary over ‘moral obligation’ to deliver refugee programme announced in AugustPriti Patel is facing growing criticism from Tory MPs over the Home Office’s failure to open a programme to allow Afghans to resettle in …
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…
Months after Mohadese Mirzaee became Afghanistan’s first female commercial airline pilot, the Taliban took Kabul. Now a refugee in Bulgaria, she is determined to fly againSitting alone in her small flat in Bulgaria, Mohadese Mirzaee contemplates the fu…
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…