Global IssuesNews headlines for “Immigration”, page 35
Greece in spotlight over trial of activists, volunteers who rescued migrants
- UN News
The Greek authorities faced an appeal on Friday from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, to dismiss the trial of two dozen aid workers who rescued migrants in distress at sea.
New US border policy poses risk to fundamental rights, warns UN’s Türk
- UN News
Recent Biden Administration border policy reforms “risk undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Wednesday.
New US border measures ‘not in line with international standards’, warns UNHCR
- UN News
Plans by the Biden administration to expand restrictions on people seeking refuge in the United States are “not in line with refugee law standards”, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
UN rights chief on Myanmar refugees and a future of ‘kindness, empathy and unity’
- UN News
Days after the latest sea rescue of Rohingya refugees by Indonesian fishing crews, UN human rights chief Volker Türk appealed on Friday for greater regional protections.
UN refugee agency welcomes Indonesia's ‘act of humanity’ in rescuing migrants adrift at sea
- UN News
Indonesian fishing crews and local authorities who took part in rescuing more than 200 people adrift at sea, were hailed on Tuesday by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, for their “act of humanity”.
2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set’
- UN News
A hundred million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022. The UN continued to help those in need in a myriad of ways, and push for more legal, and safe ways for people to migrate.
War, Famine, Disease, Disasters – 2022 – a Year Staring at Apocalypse
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 23 (IPS) - A year that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is ending with famine in Africa, while still spreading death and misery through an enduring pandemic and a deteriorating climate crisis -- 2022 has been an apocalyptic warning of the frailty of our planet and the woeful shortcomings of humankind.
UN refugee agency urges rescue of 190 desperate people adrift in Andaman Sea
- UN News
Some 190 desperate people are on the verge of perishing at sea, adrift somewhere between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday, urging countries in southern Asia to rescue them.
The Trap: A Journey from Afghanistan to Europe
- Inter Press Service
KABUL & ATHENS, Dec 22 (IPS) - Maliha looks confident in a café in Athens as she tells the story of her journey from Afghanistan to Europe. But as she starts recounting how a smuggler assaulted her in Turkey two years ago, she pauses, looking the other way and fiddling with her loose hair.
Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 19 (IPS) - When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts that attracted other powers: the World Wars I and II, they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven.
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