Group of Eritreans trapped between borders, Israel adopts new, harsher policy towards refugees
Israel has apparently decided to take an even harsher line against refugees that try to enter the country from the south. About a week ago it stopped a group of 21 Eritrean refugees from entering and consequently the group, including two women and a teenager, according to activists and an AP photographer who was at [...]
Syrian refugees struggle to cope and seek child marriage as a solution
Recent concerns have sparked as child marriages spike among Syrian refugees in Jordan. Difficult conditions in Jordan have many parents pushing to have their daughters married at an earlier age. The issue has created a concern among many international aid organizations that the rise in child marriage has been brought on as a sort of coping [...]
The Environmental Impacts of Refugees
The large scale movement of people from one place to another is a profound human tragedy but it is also profoundly environmentally destructive. Existing environmental problems are exaggerated when large numbers of people are forced to move from one place to another. The United Nations’ (UN) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each [...]
Overwhelming refugee influx causing crisis in South Sudan
MSF warns of dire medical needs in overcrowded and under-prepared refugee camps- London/Juba, 13 June 2012 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warns of dire medical consequences as tens of thousands of new refugees crossing from Sudan into South Sudan find refugee camps full and unable to provide life-sustaining essentials. The situation in Upper [...]
Bhutanese refugee on hunger Strike unto-death
The Bhutanese refugees at Beldangi-based Bhutanese refugee Camp are under fast-unto-death from the past 7 days. The hunger strike started from November 15 which is organized by the Relief Deprived Bhutanese Refugees Women’s Group where 15 women strictly following the hunger strike. The women group started the strike demanding the different donor’s identity cards be [...]
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