カテゴリー: Refugees
The regime’s closure of her support and literacy centres for women and girls was crushing, but Jamila Afghani is looking for ways to build a brighter future for the Afghan women she left behind Jamila Afghani was settling into her new home in Kitchener…
Shahriar Alam criticises international community for doing ‘absolutely nothing’ to press Myanmar’s junta to guarantee a safe returnThe world has done “absolutely nothing” to ensure safety in Myanmar for its persecuted Rohingya minority, said Bangladesh…
MoD personnel escorted refugees away from Diego Garcia in boat with no record of having radio or lifesaving equipment, lawyers sayLawyers have accused the UK of facilitating dangerous onward boat journeys by Tamil refugees who had arrived at the Britis…
Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was repeatedly refused asylum A refugee who was wrongly recorded as being a child murderer by the Home Office says delays in his case have led to him wasting …
International Rescue Committee points to unequal treatment, saying welcome for Ukrainians proves integration and support is possible for allIt is 3.30pm and Suna Hamanawa, 25, is doing what she and dozens of other Afghan mothers do most days: whiling h…
UN refugee agency urges authorities to end forced deportations as families say they are too scared to leave their homesThe Tajikistan authorities are rounding up Afghan refugees and forcing them to cross the border back into Afghanistan, despite some h…
Many of those housed in the notorious refugee camp remain on Lesbos, while others have managed to rebuild new livesTwo years have elapsed since the huge Moria fire gutted what became known as Europe’s most notorious refugee camp. Squalid, gargantuan an…
Having paid smugglers to organise a dangerous escape, those fleeing the Taliban face persistent hostilityShukriya and her husband huddled together at the bottom of a deep trench on the Turkish-Iranian border. It was summer and the days were hot. Around…
We like to think we help those in need, but the truth is we could and should be doing much more for the world’s displaced peopleOur world is careening into crisis. In May this year, the United Nations’ refugee agency announced that, for the first time,…
We are still trying to find ways to get visas – writing letters, appealing to governments – but the options are running outIt was past midnight on 9 August 2021, and I was immersed in writing when my phone pinged: a message from a contact at the Indi…
Zahra Amiri is among 41,000 working-age Afghans who have resettled in the US and are set to contribute $1.4bn to the US economy in their first year of work, according to new data The distance from Afghanistan’s south-western province of Nimroz to Iran’…
Refugees who have fled Myanmar describe the risks and their sense of duty – as well as joy – in recording life around them in the sprawling camps of BangladeshThe camera of a budget smartphone has become a way for many of the Rohingya stuck in Banglade…
In the sweltering summer of the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar, Ishrat Fori Imran photographed a young girl planting tiny trees in bottle topsNur Asma is 10 years old. She lives in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, with her fa…
My work as a journalist made us targets. Now we have a safe new home and I am determined to keep reporting on the bravery of Afghan women and girlsJust over a year ago, I watched in horror from my window as Taliban gunmen appeared on the corner of the …
MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British forcesTwo RAF flights carrying as many as 500 Afghans who worked with British forces and their relatives are landing in the UK each month from P…