カテゴリー: Refugees
Rewards offered for turning in ‘illegal Afghans’ as refugees pay price for tensions between Pakistani government and TalibanAamir Muhammad has barely left his house for weeks; neither have his neighbours. In his ramshackle neighbourhood on the outskirt…
Let’s not forget the Azeris who had to flee their homes earlier, says Alexis Rowell. And Gascia Ouzounian on why ethnic Armenians had to leave the region nowYour reporting on the Karabakh Armenian exodus (‘It’s a ghost town’: UN arrives in Nagorno-Kara…
Islamabad seeks to assuage concerns as activists say any forced deportation of Afghans will put them at a grave riskPakistan’s foreign ministry has said it will carry out plans to deport all “illegal immigrants” – including 1.7 million Afghans – in a “…
Ilham Aliyev will not attend meeting with Armenian PM amid anger over French decision to supply military aid to YerevanAzerbaijan will not attend an EU-brokered event in Spain where its president, Ilham Aliyev, was set to hold talks with his Armenian c…
‘What is left for the UN to monitor?’ asks one refugee who crossed the border to escapeNearly the entire ethnic Armenian population has left Nagorno-Karabakh, as the first United Nations mission arrived in the largely deserted mountainous region on Sun…
Women aiming to reach UK or Ireland realised lorry was heading in wrong direction and contacted BBC journalistSix women have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after a panicked text message to a BBC reporter set off a frantic …
Leaders of charities and NGOs respond to Suella Braverman’s recent comments attacking the refugee convention in the USWar and persecution are driving record numbers of people, including women and girls, to flee their homes. Most remain in their home co…
The Azerbaijani military routed Armenian forces in a 24-hour blitz last week, forcing authorities to agree to lay down weapons after three decades of separatist rule. Azerbaijan introduced a blockade 10 months ago, leading to desperate shortages of sup…
British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challengeA group of Tamil asylum seekers stranded on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean have won their fight against being forcibly returned to Sri Lanka after a governme…
Search for survivors continues in latest tragedy as persecuted Muslims make perilous sea journeys in search of better livesAt least 17 people have drowned and 33 are missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Malaysia capsized on M…
Child’s death follows hunger strike at Jammu & Kashmir jail amid increasing hostility towards 40,000 refugees ahead of electionsA five-month-old girl has died after Indian forces fired teargas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centr…
Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered withAttempts by the Greek coastguard to tow a fishing trawler ca…
Men’s remains recovered in open water on sixth day of search since boat carrying up to 750 people sankGreek authorities have retrieved a further three bodies in open waters near the spot where a fishing trawler packed with Europe-bound migrants sank la…
Families of missing desperately search for information about their loved ones after maritime disasterSix days have elapsed since a fishing trawler piloted by people smugglers sank with unimaginable loss of life off Greece and yet they still come: relat…
Poverty drove young men from small Kashmir town to board ill-fated fishing trawler, say familiesThe last time Mohammed Yousaf talked to his son, Sajid Yousaf, on 8 June, the 28-year-old was waiting anxiously in Libya for smugglers to pack him and hundr…