Written by This week we are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from 2024. This episode was first broadcast on 6 June Aamna Mohdin was a young rookie reporter when she got her first foreign assignment. She was being sent to Calais to write about ‘the Jungle’, an informal refugee camp that had sprung up, made up […]
Mapped: The Countries with the Most Stateless People This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) officially recognizes over 4.4 million people worldwide as stateless or of […]
Khan Younis, Gaza – The face of Samar Ahmed, 37, shows clear signs of exhaustion. It is not just because she has five children, nor that they have been displaced several times since the start of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza 14 months ago and are now living in cramped, cold conditions in a makeshift […]
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are being arbitrarily and indefinitely detained across India and face dehumanising living conditions that violate their basic human rights, according to a new report. The study, published on Monday by the non-profit Refugees International and The Azadi Project, documents the segregation of family members and poor sanitation measures at […]
An 11-year-old girl, wearing a simple life vest and clinging to a pair of tyre tubes, has been rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa, telling rescuers she had spent three days at sea after a shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people. The girl from Sierra Leone said she had […]
UN refugee agency chief says returning refuges to Syria after fall of Bashar al-Assad should be ‘voluntary’ and ‘safe’. The United Nations high commissioner for refugees calls for “patience and vigilance” in returning Syrian refugees to Syria after the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Filippo Grandi said in a statement on Monday that the process […]
Canada is pausing private refugee sponsorships from groups of five or more people and community organizations to help clear a backlog of applications. The notice was published on the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada website today. The pause is effective immediately and runs until Dec. 31, 2025. The government says applications received annually far outpace […]
OPINION Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers. By R. LAKHER | FRONTIER Tens of thousands of Myanmar nationals have fled since the 2021 military coup to seek refuge in neighbouring India from persecution, […]
Gender-based violence can affect women anywhere. But how could you get out of the situation if you live in a refugee camp which neither you nor your abuser could leave? This week’s story is by a Doh Athan journalist and is available in English and Burmese. Doh Athan is a weekly podcast about human rights […]
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