Global Movement for Refugee

22/12/2022

A Child was molested by family traditional elders; Mother cries out for survival.... I was never made to be aware of the awkward tradition in my mother-in-law family line. it only dawned me that as a family of ancestral warriors, first male child must go through some traditional rites and which practice have been so long before I was married into the family....

A Child was molested by family traditional elders; Mother cries out for survival…. I was never made to be aware of the awkward tradition in my mother-in-law family line. it only dawned me tha…

18/12/2022

UN migration agency ‘profoundly shocked and alarmed’ by the incident along the southern migration route from the Horn of Africa to South Africa. Ethiopia’s government will investigate the reported deaths of 27 of its citizens found dumped near Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, a discovery that has “alarmed” the United Nations’ migration agency. Zambian police found the bodies of the 27 men on Sunday in Chongwe Ngwerere, a farming area on the outskirts of the capital....

UN migration agency ‘profoundly shocked and alarmed’ by the incident along the southern migration route from the Horn of Africa to South Africa. Ethiopia’s government will investigate the reported …

18/12/2022

Ethiopia to investigate after 27 bodies discovered in Zambia

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06/04/2022

The war in Ukraine will have catastrophic ripple effects on people in the poorest and most conflict-ridden corners of the world Global human suffering was already unprecedented before Ukraine exploded. Today, 24 million people in Afghanistan rely on humanitarian aid to survive. Ten million people in the Sahel region are severely hungry. Seven million people in Ethiopia are being hammered by the worst drought in decades....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2022/04/06/the-ukraine-effect-on-the-worlds-poorest-and-most-vulnerable/

The war in Ukraine will have catastrophic ripple effects on people in the poorest and most conflict-ridden corners of the world Global human suffering was already unprecedented before Ukraine explo…

01/11/2021

Greece appears to be testing the limits of international laws by holding asylum seekers for lengthy periods and in poor conditions, Al Jazeera investigation finds. Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Kos, Greece – On the Greek island of Kos, in holiday season, tourists sip cocktails on the beach, music blares from loudspeakers and British holidaymakers can often be seen speeding around the main town on rented quad bikes....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/11/01/prisons-in-paradise-refugees-detentions-in-greece-raise-alarm/

Greece appears to be testing the limits of international laws by holding asylum seekers for lengthy periods and in poor conditions, Al Jazeera investigation finds. Names marked with an asterisk hav…

02/08/2021

Hundreds rally in the Ethiopian capital demanding protection for thousands of fellow Eritrean refugees stuck in Tigray camps. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Eritrean refugees have organised a protest in front of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) office in the capital, Addis Ababa, demanding the relocation of thousands of refugees from camps in the war-torn Tigray region. About 300 protesters on Thursday blocked a road that led to the UNHCR office, holding signs that said “Stop abuse of Eritrean refugees” and “Protect the rights of refugees.”...

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/08/02/eritrean-refugees-demand-protection-amid-tigray-war/

Hundreds rally in the Ethiopian capital demanding protection for thousands of fellow Eritrean refugees stuck in Tigray camps. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Eritrean refugees have organised a protest…

29/06/2021

Number of refugees worldwide increases for a ninth year in a row as people continue to be displaced amid the COVID crisis. A record 82.4 million people have been displaced around the world in 2020 due to violence and persecution, including an estimated 680,000 in Myanmar following ethnic conflict and the recent military coup, according to the United Nations refugee agency....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/06/29/myanmar-coup-displaces-thousands-as-global-refugee-numbers-rise/

Number of refugees worldwide increases for a ninth year in a row as people continue to be displaced amid the COVID crisis. A record 82.4 million people have been displaced around the world in 2020 …

26/04/2021

Rights groups and lawmakers had criticized the US president over an earlier plan to keep the Trump-era limit in place for 2021. US President Joe Biden has promised to raise a cap on the number of refugees allowed into the United States this fiscal year, after facing widespread criticism from rights groups and members of his own Democratic Party for initially planning to delay the move....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/04/26/biden-vows-to-raise-refugee-admission-cap-but-offers-few-details/

Rights groups and lawmakers had criticized the US president over an earlier plan to keep the Trump-era limit in place for 2021. US President Joe Biden has promised to raise a cap on the number of r…

30/03/2021

Rwanda has failed to investigate the killings of least 12 Congolese refugees. Join us to demand accountability. On 22 February 2018, Rwandan police officers shot live rounds at a crowd of hundreds of Congolese refugees who were protesting the reduction of humanitarian assistance at Kibiza Refugee Camp, where many of them have been living for over 22 years. At least 11 refugees were shot dead that day – eight in Karongi at the UNHCR field office and three in Kiziba....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/03/30/investigate-killings-of-congolese-refugees-by-rwandan-police/

Rwanda has failed to investigate the killings of least 12 Congolese refugees. Join us to demand accountability. On 22 February 2018, Rwandan police officers shot live rounds at a crowd of hundreds …

11/03/2021

Coastguards were able to save 165 people before rescue called off due to bad weather and nightfall At least 39 migrants have drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized, the defence ministry has said, as numbers risking the dangerous crossing to Europe continued to rise. Rescuers pulled 165 survivors from the foundering boats to safety on Tuesday. Defence ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri said later that the search had been “temporarily suspended due to nightfall and bad weather”....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/03/11/rescuers-find-39-bodies-off-tunisia-after-two-boats-sink/

Coastguards were able to save 165 people before rescue called off due to bad weather and nightfall At least 39 migrants have drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized, the defence minis…

09/03/2021

Refugee Rosemary Kariuki has been recognized as Australia's 2021 'Local Hero' for her work helping other displaced women overcome isolation and gender violence. When Rosemary Kariuki arrived in Sydney in 1999 after fleeing violence in Kenya, a year went by without a single neighbour saying hello to her. Alone and longing for the sense of community she had back home, she decided to take action....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/03/09/the-kenyan-powerhouse-improving-womens-lives-in-australia/

Refugee Rosemary Kariuki has been recognized as Australia’s 2021 ‘Local Hero’ for her work helping other displaced women overcome isolation and gender violence. When Rosemary Kari…

08/03/2021

The International Organization for Migration has said that at least 20 migrants and refugees are dead after smugglers threw 80 people overboard during a voyage from Djibouti in East Africa to Yemen. A statement says “smugglers started shouting there were too many on board” after the boat with 200 migrants, including children under 18 years old, set off on Wednesday....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/03/08/dozens-of-migrants-heading-to-yemen-thrown-overboard-feared-dead/

The International Organization for Migration has said that at least 20 migrants and refugees are dead after smugglers threw 80 people overboard during a voyage from Djibouti in East Africa to Yemen…

03/03/2021

Libya is not capable of handling the migrantion crisis by itself, the country’s interim Prime Minister-designate has warned, adding that the international community should step up its support if monitoring and rescue operations are to be successful. There are more than 570,000 migrants currently in Libya, according to UN estimates. Libya has become the major transit point for people hoping to reach Europe, after the North African country plunged into a bloody conflict following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/03/03/libyas-new-government-says-migration-crisis-not-its-top-priority/

Libya is not capable of handling the migrantion crisis by itself, the country’s interim Prime Minister-designate has warned, adding that the international community should step up its support …

01/03/2021

Biden administration continues eliminating Trump migration policy as officials warn migrants not to travel to border. US President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States while their cases proceed. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release it “will begin phase one of a program to restore safe and orderly processing at the southwest border....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/03/01/us-to-let-in-25000-asylum-seekers-kept-out-by-remain-in-mexico/

Biden administration continues eliminating Trump migration policy as officials warn migrants not to travel to border. US President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday announced plans for tens of t…

21/01/2021

Ten survivors brought back to Libya after at least 43 migrants and refugees died on Tuesday, UN bodies report. At least 43 migrants and refugees have been killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said, the first tragic event of 2021 in the Central Mediterranean where more than 17,000 have drowned since 2014....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/01/21/dozens-of-migrants-killed-in-shipwreck-off-libyas-coast/

Ten survivors brought back to Libya after at least 43 migrants and refugees died on Tuesday, UN bodies report. At least 43 migrants and refugees have been killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Lib…

04/01/2021

The programs will be available only to asylum seekers who have worked in healthcare during the coronavirus outbreak. On December 14, Canada will begin accepting applications for permanent residence from refugee claimants who provided direct healthcare to Canadians. Canada’s minister of immigration, Marco Mendicino, had announced two new temporary immigration programs this past summer. One is for refugees in Quebec…...

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2021/01/04/canada-launching-immigration-programs-for-refugees-working-in-healthcare/

31/12/2020

Bosnian authorities return hundreds of migrants to empty burned out tent camp after 24 hours in relocation buses The relocation of hundreds of migrants and refugees from a fire-damaged tent camp in Bosnia has been cancelled amid protests by residents, reflecting confusion in the Balkan country’s handling of the crisis. The migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were supposed to move on Tuesday from the much-criticised Lipa camp in northwest Bosnia to a former army barracks in the town of Bradina, 320km (200 miles) away....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/12/31/bosnia-cancels-migrant-relocation-from-burned-down-camp/

Bosnian authorities return hundreds of migrants to empty burned out tent camp after 24 hours in relocation buses The relocation of hundreds of migrants and refugees from a fire-damaged tent camp in…

23/12/2020

Witnesses and relatives of victims say the bloodletting in the small town in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region went on unabated for almost 24 hours With communications gradually being restored to parts of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, survivors and residents in the town of Mai Kadra have been able to share harrowing accounts of the slaughter of civilians more than a month ago, the worst confirmed atrocity in a weeks-long conflict between government forces and the now-fugitive regional government....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/12/23/survivors-recount-horrific-details-of-mai-kadra-massacre/

Witnesses and relatives of victims say the bloodletting in the small town in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region went on unabated for almost 24 hours With communications gradually being restored to pa…

08/12/2020

Sudan hosting more than 43,000 refugees fleeing fighting in Tigray into one of its most impoverished regions. Sudan needs $150m in aid to cope with the flood of Ethiopian refugees crossing its border from conflict-stricken Tigray, the United Nations refugee agency chief has said during a visit to a camp. The Tigray conflict broke out on November 4 between Ethiopia’s federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/12/08/un-says-sudan-needs-150m-to-help-ethiopian-refugees/

Sudan hosting more than 43,000 refugees fleeing fighting in Tigray into one of its most impoverished regions. Sudan needs $150m in aid to cope with the flood of Ethiopian refugees crossing its bord…

08/12/2020

New report says at least 18 Burundians were forcibly disappeared from refugee camps in Tanzania over the past year. At least 18 Burundian refugees and asylum seekers have been forcibly disappeared from refugee camps in Tanzania over the past year, according to a new report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW). Many were tortured at a police station in Kibondo, Tanzania, the report says....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/12/08/burundi-refugees-forcibly-disappeared-tortured-in-tanzania-hrw/

New report says at least 18 Burundians were forcibly disappeared from refugee camps in Tanzania over the past year. At least 18 Burundian refugees and asylum seekers have been forcibly disappeared …

04/12/2020

While camps have been described as ‘open-air prisons’ they also functioned as a refuge for families with nowhere to go. Erbil, Kurdistan Region Iraq – Displaced families in Iraq are being forced into homelessness and poverty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Wednesday, as authorities continue to close down camps that once housed hundreds of thousands of civilians. For more than six years dozens of camps scattered across Iraq and the Kurdistan region have housed victims of the 2014 onslaught by the armed group ISIL (ISIS) – many of whom were forced to flee their homes with nothing more than the clothes on their backs....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/12/04/displaced-people-in-iraq-left-with-no-refuge-as-police-shut-camps/

While camps have been described as ‘open-air prisons’ they also functioned as a refuge for families with nowhere to go. Erbil, Kurdistan Region Iraq – Displaced families in Iraq are being forced in…

23/11/2020

‘No one is safe until everybody is safe’, says IOM chief, as the race to produce effective vaccine gathers pace. Refugees in the European Union should have equal access to promising COVID-19 vaccines, the head of the United Nations migration agency told the European Parliament on Thursday. “It is for the sake of their safety and wellbeing of the entire host communities” in the countries taking them in, said Antonio Vitorino, director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/11/23/refugees-must-have-access-to-covid-19-vaccine-iom/

‘No one is safe until everybody is safe’, says IOM chief, as the race to produce effective vaccine gathers pace. Refugees in the European Union should have equal access to promising COVID-19 vaccin…

23/11/2020

The Biden administration must address curbs to the US asylum system that worsened under Trump, refugee groups says Refugee advocates in the United States are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to reverse some of Donald Trump’s most restrictive immigration policies, including historic-low admission quotas for asylum seekers, when he takes office in January. Rebuilding the US refugee programme may take time, said Becca Heller, executive director of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) advocacy group, but it is critical for thousands of asylum seekers waiting for their claims to be heard....

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/11/23/refugee-advocates-urge-biden-to-rebuild-us-asylum-system/

The Biden administration must address curbs to the US asylum system that worsened under Trump, refugee groups says Refugee advocates in the United States are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to…

02/11/2020

South Korea began accepting refugees in 1994, but acceptance of outsiders remains contentious in Korean society. South Korea has accepted just 164 asylum seekers this year from nearly 6,000 who applied despite coronavirus travel curbs, according to government data. Immigration is a contentious issue in South Korea, where many pride themselves on ethnic homogeneity, even as its population of 51 million rapidly ages and the labour force shrinks. [ 256 more words ]

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/11/02/s-korea-accepts-just-164-of-nearly-6000-asylum-seekers/

South Korea began accepting refugees in 1994, but acceptance of outsiders remains contentious in Korean society. South Korea has accepted just 164 asylum seekers this year from nearly 6,000 who app…

19/10/2020

Home affairs department says 13,171 humanitarian places were given, well below target of 18,750, as applications drop across most visa categories The home affairs department has reported a significant reduction in the number of visas being granted – including refugee visas, which have been reduced by almost a third – in large part due to the pandemic. Despite the drop in visa numbers, the department still raised $2.2bn in revenue through applications. [ 377 more words ]

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/10/19/australias-refugee-intake-falls-30-below-target-as-pandemic-takes-toll/

Home affairs department says 13,171 humanitarian places were given, well below target of 18,750, as applications drop across most visa categories The home affairs department has reported a signific…

05/10/2020

On Monday, September 28 at 19:30 GMT:For weeks, thousands of people have been without shelter after fires destroyed the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Le**os. Men, women and children have been forced to sleep out on roadsides, in open spaces and even graveyards. The Greek government and UN agencies are working to address the emergency and accommodate the displaced amid tricky EU politics and a local population increasingly losing patience with the situation. [ 135 more words ]

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/10/05/does-anyone-care-about-the-moria-refugees/

On Monday, September 28 at 19:30 GMT:For weeks, thousands of people have been without shelter after fires destroyed the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Le**os. Men, women and children hav…

05/10/2020

Without a new admissions quota, the US refugee resettlement programme will not be able to take in new refugees. US President Donald Trump appears to be ignoring a deadline to establish how many refugees will be allowed into the United States next year, raising uncertainty about the future of the 40-year-old resettlement programme that has been dwindling under his administration. [ 471 more words ]

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/10/05/trump-set-to-miss-required-deadline-for-2021-refugee-quota/

Without a new admissions quota, the US refugee resettlement programme will not be able to take in new refugees. US President Donald Trump appears to be ignoring a deadline to establish how many ref…

28/09/2020

The 61-year-old Afghan father of two died in hospital in Athens where he had been receiving treatment. A 61-year-old man from Afghanistan died of COVID-19 on Sunday, the first reported death of a refugee from the disease in Greece since the pandemic began there in late February, a government official told Reuters. The man, a father of two children, lived at the Malakasa migrant camp, and died in hospital in Athens where he had been receiving treatment, the official said. [ 119 more words ]

https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/09/28/greece-reports-first-covid-19-refugee-death-since-pandemic-began/

The 61-year-old Afghan father of two died in hospital in Athens where he had been receiving treatment. A 61-year-old man from Afghanistan died of COVID-19 on Sunday, the first reported death of a r…

21/09/2020

Some are reluctant to enter the new site, fearing poor conditions and worried their movement may be further limited Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. Police on the Greek island of Le**os have launched an operation to rehouse thousands of refugees and migrants who have been sleeping rough after their camp was destroyed by fire. [ 410 more words ]
https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/09/21/greece-police-move-refugees-to-new-lesbos-camp-after-moria-fire/

Some are reluctant to enter the new site, fearing poor conditions and worried their movement may be further limited Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. Police on…

16/09/2020

People who were in contact with the two infected refugees are being tested and isolated, according to the UNHCR The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday it confirmed two coronavirus cases in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan, which is home to more than 40,000 people who have fled their country's civil war. They are the first infections to be detected among Syrians living in refugee camps in Jordan. [ 323 more words ]
https://globalmovementforrefugee.org/2020/09/16/first-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-jordan-camp-for-syrian-refugees/

People who were in contact with the two infected refugees are being tested and isolated, according to the UNHCR The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday it confirmed two coronavirus cases in the Azraq…