News headlines for “Immigration”, page 97
91 countries now offer COVID-19 vaccinations to refugees, says UNHCR
- UN News
UN refugee agency UNHCR, on Thursday welcomed the growing number of countries that have offered COVID-19 vaccines to refugees before urging others to do the same.
COVID-19 as Instigator of Bigotry, Chauvinism and Megalomania
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 24 (IPS) - A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By the end of April 2019, a government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan was suspended after a series of attacks on health workers and police.
‘Invisible’ stateless people could miss out on COVID-19 jabs, UNHCR warns
- UN News
Millions of stateless people around the world could miss out on COVID-19 vaccinations because they lack identity papers and are essentially “invisible to the authorities”.
Canada Must Acknowledge its Problematic Bill 21
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jun 21 (IPS) - The June 5th attack on the Muslim family in London, Ontaria, has left many in Canada in a state of shock. A driver intentionally struck the Afzaal family while they were out for a stroll, killing four, because of their Islamic faith. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the killing, “a terrorist attack and a brazen act of violence.”
Education Cannot Wait for Refugee Children in Crisis, says Yasmine Sherif
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 19 (IPS) - With financing, the number of out-of-school refuges could be reduced to zero, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) says, as the world commemorates World Refugee Day.
Refugees disproportionately exposed to COVID impact: Guterres
- UN News
Everyone has a duty to help refugees rebuild their lives after a particularly difficult year for so many – that’s the message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, to mark World Refugee Day on 20 June.
Forced displacement at record level, despite COVID shutdowns: UNHCR
- UN News
The number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations, rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people, a further four percent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million, recorded at the end of 2019.
Central Sahel: Ground Zero in Tackling Climate Change Through Education
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - The climate crisis is amplifying the effects of instability and violence in the world’s poorest countries. Nowhere is this more visible than in Africa’s Central Sahel region, where increasing temperature, floods, droughts and other climate change-induced disasters are triggering conflicts, displacement, and pushing girls and boys into the shadows.
‘Families came first’ for remittances in year of pandemic, says Guterres
- UN News
Migrants working away from their families made significant sacrifices to send money home last year as they did before COVID, UN chief António Guterres said on Wednesday, warning that now is not the time for countries to withdraw their support to these key workers.
Britain Must Fix Its Anti-Muslim Sentiment Problem
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jun 14 (IPS) - In 2015, When Rabina Khan was running as an independent candidate in the Tower Hamlets’ mayoral elections in London, a male voter asked her what colour her hair was under her veil. Rabina replied and said, it was pink. This small interaction is what got Rabina inspired to write her book, My Hair is Pink Under This Veil.
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