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Interview with family of bullied refugee schoolboy forced to move home
They fled the war in Syria hoping for a new, safer, life in Britain. But now the family of a teenage boy, whose bullying at school in Huddersfield was captured on video, have been forced to move hundreds of miles away
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The shipwrecked refugees marooned for twenty years on a British military base in Cyprus
Marooned on a British army base for nearly 20 years. The future of five families from Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria and Iraq – 10 adults and 17 children, recognised as refugees – will be decided by the UK’s most senior judges.
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Orban defends Hungarian government at European Parliament
There was evidence in Strasbourg today that Brexit isn’t the EU’s only problem. A defiant Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, turned up in person at the European Parliament to defend his government from accusations it is undermining democracy.
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They fled the Nazis as kids – now they’re helping Europe’s refugees
The migration crisis is shaping politics and influencing elections across Europe, and although the number of people seeking a new life on the continent has slowed, people are still coming by the boatload. One of the countries under the biggest strain is Greece. They’ve had over 500 new arrivals on their islands since Friday. We…
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Giulia Lagana, Open Society European Policy Institute: ‘Italy is becoming a very racist country’
Giulia Lagana is from a foundation which lobbies the EU on migration rights. She was previously migration adviser to the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and served on the UN Committee for Refugees.
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Death and Destruction in Yarmouk: Inside Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee camp
“You have turned it into a death Camp” – the United Nations verdict on the Syrian government. For five years Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces besieged and bombarded Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian camp in Syria. The assault was designed to drive out militant Islamic State fighters holding onto what was to become the last…
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Rohingya refugees demand citizenship
Representatives of the UN Security Council have been told by Rohingya refugees to demand that they are given citizenship in their native Myanmar and allowed to return following ethnic violence.
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UNHCR’s Caroline Gluck: ‘Rohingya need to be moved to safer locations before monsoon’
The UNHCR’s Caroline Gluck, in Bangladesh, discusses the plight of Rohingya refugees.
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‘Prison Island’ of the Rohingya: New island for refugees threatened by monsoon
It’s been six months since the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees began as the Myanmar military and Buddhist vigilantes turned on the Muslims of Rakhine State. Since then, 700,000 have escaped into Bangladesh to join more than 300,000 others who’d fled earlier. Jonathan Miller is there, finding out if a remote uninhabited island, prone to sinking, is really the answer.
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MPs back child refugee changes
The Home Office says it will not support legislation which would make it easier for refugee families to be reunited in the UK. MPs today voted in favour of a private member’s bill which would allow child refugees to sponsor relatives to join them and would restore legal aid in such cases in England and…
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Boris Johnson calls for safe return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called for the safe and dignified return of the Rohingya people to Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority have fled what the UN has called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Speaking during a visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh, and ahead of meeting Aung San Suu…
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Myanmar row: Bill Richardson argues with Aung San Suu Kyi
A major diplomatic row erupted in Myanmar today after the former US Congressman, Governor, and Clinton Cabinet Member Bill Richardson had a spectacular row with the country’s political leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Formerly a friend and advisor – Mr Richardson broke with her in a bitter argument, involving the Rohingya crisis and the freedom…
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UN’s Guterres questions Rohingya repatriation
The UN Secretary-General has joined a chorus of international concern over an agreement to start repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, starting next week. Antonio Guterres has said it is important that the returns are voluntary and that the deal should not simply result in refugees being moved from camps…
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Court rejects child refugees challenge
“The government are letting down a lot of kids,” Lord Dubs said today, after campaigners lost a legal challenge against the number of unaccompanied child refugees accepted by the UK under the so-called Dubs amendment. The charity Help Refugees claimed the consultation process, by which the government calculated how many children should be accepted, was “fundamentally flawed”. The…
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The Rohingya children suffering in Bangladeshi refugee camps
They’ve fled unimaginable horrors: now they’re outcast, desperate and alone. Thousands of Rohingya children arrive in the squalid refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh every week: and more than 20,000 of them are unaccompanied or orphaned. Our Asia correspondent Jonathan Miller has spoken to some of the most vulnerable children: they’ve lost their homes,…
