refugees

About 3,000 refugees rescued off Libya coast: Italian coastguard

Apr 16, 2017 06:24

Some 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have reportedly been rescued from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast during a second day of operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
EU leaving refugees to drown, say NGO rescuers

Apr 16, 2017 00:43

Charity groups and NGOs have rescued over 2,000 desperate refugees in the rough waters of the Mediterranean in a single day, criticizing the European Union for failing to conduct necessary search and rescue operations to prevent further loss of life.
Clashes erupt in Australian refugee facility in PNG

Apr 15, 2017 06:44

Violence has flared at an Australian asylum-seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and shots were fired when local people tried to break into the center after an argument got out of hand, media and a rights group reported on Saturday.
UN: Refugees traded in Libya ‘slave markets’

Apr 12, 2017 04:08

The United Nations has raised alarm over a climbing number of refugees passing through Libya who are being traded in so-called slave markets before being held for ransom and subjected to malnutrition and sexual abuse.
Refugees headed to Europe facing systematic abuse, police brutality: MSF

Apr 01, 2017 12:28

Thousands of refugees trapped in Serbia have been facing systematic abuse, police brutality and violence as they desperately struggle to seek shelter in Europe.
Syrian refugee sets self on fire in Greece camp: Video

Apr 01, 2017 09:30

A Syrian refugee has set himself on fire in a camp for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece in protest at the dire living conditions there as there is no end in sight to the plight of the refugees stranded across Europe.
IOM to fly 10,000 refugees out of Libya in 2017

Mar 31, 2017 16:41

Up to 10,000 refugees stranded in Libya will be flown back to their home countries this year, but the returns can only play a limited role in tackling migrant flows toward Europe, the head of the UN migration agency's Libyan office said.
Number of Syrian refugees passes 5 million: United Nations

Mar 30, 2017 10:10

The United Nations says the number of refugees, who have fled the foreign-backed militancy in Syria, has now gone beyond the five million mark.
About 146 feared dead after boat capsizes in Mediterranean: UN

Mar 29, 2017 13:26

A rubber boat packed with refugees has sank in the Mediterranean, with the presumed sole survivor saying that he believes all other passengers drowned, the International Migration Organization (IOM) says.
Saudi attack on Somali refugee boat likely war crime: HRW

Mar 27, 2017 12:10

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a recent deadly aerial aggression on a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen, “apparently” carried out by the Saudi-led military coalition, likely amounts to “war crime.”