Refugees
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NZ mulls harsher law against refugee boat arrivals – despite no refugee boats ever having arrived
Opponents claim that bill put forward by Labour government amounts to fear-mongering in an election yearLarge …
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What is happening with Afghan refugees in the UK?
About 9,000 of the people who arrived in Britain since the fall of Kabul are still living in temporary accommo…
- Afghanistan, Conservatives, Home Office, Immigration and asylum, Politics, Refugees, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Afghan refugees face homelessness under UK plans, say rights groups
Ministers announce refugees in hotels will be offered move to a home on condition they accept first offerPolit…
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The Guardian view on the forgotten Rohingya refugees: lives without futures | Editorial
More than five years after hundreds of thousands fled Myanmar, conditions in Bangladesh are deterioratingThe h…
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Afghan girls may be blocked from taking GCSEs as families moved from London
‘Barbaric’ to take away exam chance after all teenage refugees have overcome, headteacher saysTwo 16-year-old …
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Huge fire at Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh leaves thousands homeless – video
A fire tore through a refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving th…
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Huge fire at Rohingya refugee camp leaves thousands without shelter
Fears of future blazes after health, learning and religious facilities also destroyed in Cox’s Bazar, Banglade…
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Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves ‘four dead’ and thousands in cells
Asylum seekers in Karachi tell of terror of being sent back to the Taliban and despair at being shackled and h…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Global development, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
UN warns of ‘unconscionable’ cuts to Rohingya food rations as donations fall
World Food Programme calls for urgent $125m injection after being forced into axing supplies into Bangladesh r…
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Afghan refugee in London told to give up doctorate and move to Yorkshire
University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching rolesA …
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Canada votes to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees amid Chinese pressure to force their return
Move shows ‘what is happening to the Uyghurs is unacceptable’, says MP after non-binding parliamentary ballot …
- Bangladesh, Global development, Indonesia, Malaysia, Migration, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
Sea ‘a graveyard’ as number of Rohingya fleeing Bangladesh by boat soars
UN figures show number of those attempting to escape horrendous conditions in refugee camps increased from 700…
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UK government urged to honour pledge to Afghan refugees’ families
Exclusive: Charities and activists call on PM to follow through on pledge to allow families to resettle in UK …
- Asia Pacific, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
Rohingya refugees bet lives on boat crossings despite rising death toll
Woman recounts suffering on perilous journeys taken to escape oppression in Myanmar and squalid Bangladesh cam…
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Activists appeal for rescue of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea in leaking boat
Vessel thought to have embarked from Bangladesh is reportedly near Malaysia with 160 people onboard who have n…