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    Shirking moral responsibility is not an option

    14 Oct 2019

    The mass movement of people is a global phenomenon; one that is here to stay. A former refugee myself, as a child I experienced the trauma and wrenching displacement of fleeing

    Rights groups denounce France’s ‘punitive policy’ on migrants

    26 Jun 2019

    Twenty rights groups — including Amnesty International and Medicins du Monde — on Wednesday denounced France’s “punitive policy” towards migrants held in the country’s detention centres.

    Images of drowned Salvadoran migrant and 2-year-old child stir outrage

    26 Jun 2019

    Shocking images of a drowned Salvadoran migrant and his two-year-old daughter who died while trying to cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico to the United States have sparked outrage, underscoring the dangers faced by asylum-seekers.

    Biden considers protection for climate change migrants

    22 Apr 2021

    Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the tiny Pacific island nation they fled, one of the lowest-lying countries on Earth.

    Climate refugees

    23 Apr 2021

    Migration due to climate change will be an issue that better placed nations will have to deal with in the coming years. Today people are fleeing their home country due to poverty, strife and persecution. Tomorrow people will be forced to migrate because rising waters and heatwaves

    Discord won’t help ease woes of migrants

    24 Apr 2021

    The quest for freedom through the seas comes at a great cost to human life. This is what migrants bear, and continue to bear, as they cross the Mediterranean in a dangerous bid to escape tyranny, hardship and extreme suffering.

    US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants

    01 Jun 2019

    The new rules apply to virtually all applicants for immigrant and nonimmigrant visas. When it filed its initial notice to make the change, the department estimated it would affect 710,000 immigrant visa applicants and 14 million nonimmigrant visa applicants, including those who want to come to the US for business or education.

    Treatment can pose hazards for migrants to Europe

    23 Jan 2021

    If there is one segment of humanity which is living in inhuman conditions and subject to inhuman treatment, it is the migrants. Their condition is pitiful and seems to show no signs of let-up.

    Immigrants welcome Afghan refugees graciously

    28 Dec 2021

    Tram Pham tears up recalling how tough life was at first in the US. But she also remembers the joy she felt as a 22-year-old refugee from Vietnam when a nurse spoke to her in her native language and guided her through a medical screening required of new arrivals.

    The UK’s immigration system is ideologically broken

    08 Oct 2019

    As the inquest into the death of another of the Windrush scandal migrants took place, I can’t help but think about the scale of the issue at hand. Dexter Bristol was a 58-year-old Grenadian man who came to the UK

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