News headlines for “Immigration”, page 50
Reintegration Assistance for Migrants Going Home
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Aug 16 (IPS) - Reintegration assistance for migrants returning to their countries of origin is becoming increasingly salient. Germany and the EU cooperate closely with countries of origin to support local reintegration.
Save lives, UN agencies appeal, after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean
- UN News
Three UN agencies on Thursday appealed for greater access to safe and regular pathways for migration and asylum in the European Union after another deadly shipwreck claimed dozens of lives in the Mediterranean.
UN refugee agency concerned about situation at Mexico-US border
- UN News
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, voiced concern on Tuesday over the situation in Mexico, where refugees and migrants aspiring to get to the United States find themselves in cramped shelters, exposed to multiple risks.
UNICEF laments deaths of pregnant mother and toddler in Mediterranean Sea shipwreck
- UN News
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for safer legal paths to migration following the latest tragic attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.
UNRWA appeals for end to deadly clashes at Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon
- UN News
Thirteen people have been killed and more than 60 injured in four days of deadly violence at the largest Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon, a senior UN official in the country said on Thursday.
Record crossings of perilous Darién Gap underscores need for safe migration pathways
- UN News
Record numbers of migrants are crossing the Darién jungle in Latin America in a desperate and perilous journey, including from as far off as Nepal and Afghanistan, UN agencies said on Wednesday, highlighting the urgency of finding safe and regular pathways.
Afghan Girls, Women Deprived of Education, Find Hope in Africa
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Aug 01 (IPS) - When providing education to her small group of Afghan girls, who had been studying at a boarding school back home, became tenuous, Shabana Basij-Rasikh, relocated them to Rwanda.
Violence at refugee camp in Lebanon leaves 11 dead, forces thousands to flee: UNRWA
- UN News
More than two days of armed violence at the Ein El Hilweh Palestine Refugee camp in southern Lebanon continues to impact civilians, including children, a senior UN official in the country said on Monday.
International Inertia Follows Israeli Assault on Jenin in the West Bank
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jul 28 (IPS) - The likelihood of further confrontations remains high following a major Israeli military assault on an impoverished camp of more than 23,500 Palestinian refugees in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank earlier this month. The landlocked Palestinian territory, located between Israel to the west and Jordan to the east, has been illegally occupied, according to international law, following the invasion by Israel 56 years ago.
UNHCR urges solidarity with Burkina Faso’s victims of extremist violence
- UN News
Civilians fleeing attacks by extremist groups in Burkina Faso must be allowed to shelter in neighbouring countries and not sent back, amid a spike in violence and horrifying rights abuses, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
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