カテゴリー: Refugees
Man scheduled to depart for Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving wife in UK, but believes his life will be at riskA husband and wife face enforced separation because the Home Office wants to put him on a deportation flight to Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving his w…
Official attitudes are hardening towards the minority group amid an anti-Muslim crackdown, say activistsFor Rohingya refugee Hussain Ahmed, the hope that his children might receive a formal education to secure a better adulthood than his own was what “…
ECJ ruling follows Afghan women’s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee statusThe European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are sufficient grounds for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanis…
As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesWith its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but fo…
After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025Almost three years after Esmatullah Sultani rushed to Kabul’s international airpor…
Arakan Army targeting Muslim minority as Myanmar’s military are driven out of Rakhine, UN official saysThousands of Rohingya are being forced to flee from their homes in Myanmar and escape on dangerous boat journeys after being targeted by armed rebels…
With music now a crime in Afghanistan, Braga has become one of the few places where the practice is being preservedA stone’s throw from Portugal’s oldest cathedral and buzzing bakeries serving up pastéis de nata, the complex notes of a sitar fill the g…
More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking education elsewhereRelief set in the moment Hasina crossed the border into Iran. For two years, the Taliban barred the 24-year-old medical stude…
Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and BangkokThe Koung Jor refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border is just three and half hours from Jakkai Sir…
Greek court says it has no jurisdiction to hear case as disaster happened in international watersA Greek court has thrown out charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks, ruling it has no jurisdi…
Families of those who helped British forces could be deported from Pakistan despite promise to resettle them in UKAfghan families who helped UK forces and then fled to neighbouring Pakistan are in danger of being deported back to the Taliban due to Hom…
In 2017, a crying Asom Khan became the face of Myanmar’s refugees. Now 15, he has discovered his own passion for photographyHis own sign language of sweeping, dramatised gestures is rarely fully understood by those outside Asom Khan’s closest friends a…
Soaked survivors clung to hull overnight before being taken to safety by Indonesian rescue teamDozens of Rohingya refugees have been rescued from the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia after spending the night balanced on the hull of their overtur…
People trapped in the world’s largest refugee camp hope to seek new lives elsewhere despite threats facing them as they attempt to leave BangladeshEven as dehydration was getting to their passengers, the traffickers using boats to carry hundreds of Roh…
French authorities accused of failing to investigate the fates of refugees who have gone missing at sea while trying to cross by boat to the UK, with families still waiting for news of loved onesLate in the evening of 14 December last year four friends…