Migrants and Refugees

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60,000 young refugees and migrants who arrived in Italy alone lack support

8 November 2019
Europe

United Nations agencies on Friday highlighted the dire needs of thousands of unaccompanied and separated children who have arrived in Italy as refugees, lacking the proper support to transition through to adulthood.

Presidential Press Service

Guterres in Turkey: UN to study ‘new settlement areas’ plan for Syrian refugees

1 November 2019
Middle East

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday presented UN Secretary-General António Guterres with a plan for resettling hundreds-of-thousands of Syrian refugees, in the wake of the country’s offensive into northeastern Syria last month to remove Kurdish forces, aimed at creating a so-called “safe zone” along the border for returnees. 

IOM South Sudan

UN migration agency appeals to South Sudan group to free volunteer worker and child

1 November 2019
Africa

The UN migration agency appealed on Friday for the immediate liberation of a volunteer and child who’ve been missing since a gun battle in South Sudan at the weekend that claimed the lives of three agency workers.

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Tributes for ‘role model’ former UN refugee agency chief, Sadako Ogata

29 October 2019

The first woman to serve as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has died in Tokyo at the age of 92, hailed by the UN Secretary-General on Tuesday as a “role model for people across the world.”

IOM/Muse Mohammed

UN and partners call for solidarity, as Venezuelans on the move reach 4.5 million

23 October 2019
Americas

Since 2015, approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country as the Latin American nation's political, humanitarian and economic crisis drags on, creating one of the “direst” displacement crises in the world, the UN and European Union said on Wednesday, ahead of a solidarity conference next week.

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More than 90 per cent of Africa migrants would make perilous Europe journey again, despite the risks

21 October 2019

A landmark UN migration study published on Monday shows that 93 per cent of Africans making the journey to European countries along irregular routes, would do it again, despite facing often life-threatening danger. 

ILO/Aparna Jayakumar

New labour laws in Qatar benefiting migrant workers a ‘momentous step forward’: ILO

17 October 2019
Middle East

New legislation in Qatar which will allow foreign workers to freely change jobs and leave the country without the approval of their employers, has been praised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as “a momentous step forward in upholding the rights of migrant workers.”

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Ingredients for a new life: how cooking helps refugees and migrants blend in

16 October 2019
Global

On a Friday afternoon, in a small restaurant kitchen in the New York borough of Brooklyn, head chef Alexander Harris is giving instructions to his attentive team, preparing them for the busy evening ahead. So far, the tables are empty, but the small, popular space, with just a handful of tables - and some stools around the bar - will soon be bustling with the evening crowd.

UNICEF/Aslan Arfa

Friday’s Daily Brief: Day of the Girl Child, mayors lead on climate emergency, Turkey Syria offensive, new statelessness pledges, extremism in social media

11 October 2019
Global

Our top stories for Friday: Day of the Girl Child celebrated around the world; city mayors lead on climate fight; humanitarian alarm rising over Turkey’s Syria offensive; history’s made as countries step forward to tackle global statelessness; Burkina Faso violence forces 500,000 from their homes; 'white extremist’ use of social media in attacks must be curbed.

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New refugee data centre can inform policies, solutions worldwide: Guterres

10 October 2019
Global

A new UN refugee data centre will improve the way humanitarian agencies support “some of the most dramatically vulnerable people in the world”, UN chief António Guterres said on Thursday.