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Syrian refugees admiring and baffled after UK’s ‘no war’ vote
Among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, there is admiration for the independence of British MPs – but also confusion over the west’s reluctance to act.
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Among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, there is admiration for the independence of British MPs – but also confusion over the west’s reluctance to act.
A flood of 30,000 Syrian refugees have entered Kurdish Iraq in the past three days. It is the biggest single wave of refugees to leave Syria since the 2011 uprising started says the UN.
Channel 4 News has investigated how tens of thousands of them desperate to reach safe haven are falling victim to criminal gangs and ending up as hostages in prison camps.
In a ruling which could affect thousands of refugees, the court of appeal quashes the convictions of five asylum seekers said to have used false passports to travel to the UK. Simon Israel explains.
Thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled religious persection in Burma have been locked up in overcrowded caged cells in detention centres in Thailand.
Humanitarian responses to refugees fleeing conflict in Mali have been “far from adequate”, putting thousands at risk from malnutrition and the “deplorable” conditions in camps, a report warns.
Thousands of Syrians fled to Jordan’s Zataari refugee camp to escape violence at home. But now women and children live in fear of kidnap, rape and sham marriages in the camp meant to keep them safe.
The prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron expressed her shock and dismay at the stories Syrian refugees told her while she visited them in Lebanon.
The United Nations has called them ‘one of the most persecuted minorities in the world’ – Burma’s Rohingya people. The stateless, Muslim community live among the majority Buddhists in Rakhine state. Flimsy wooden boats packed with people desperate to flee are now arriving off the coast of Thailand every day. But instead of giving temporary…
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller witnesses the dramatic late-night escape and rescue of a group of Syrian refugees, fleeing their homeland under fire and crossing into Jordan.
As thousands of Syrian refugees cross the Jordanian border fleeing extreme violence and bombing, Jordan’s foreign minister tells Channel 4 News there is a lack of funds to cope with the influx.
As the number of Syrian refugees pouring into Jordan trebles in the past few days, with more than 20,000 fleeing to makeshift camps, Jonathan Miller has the latest from the Zaatari refugee camp.
Refugees have been pouring over the border from Syria into Jordan in the last 24 hours, and the UNHCR is warning about conditions in the camps holding them after three children died this week.
So bad are conditions at the refugee camp in Atmeh, northern Syria that some people have returned to the deadly shelling and mayhem in the south of the country.
An al-Qaeda takeover in northern Mali has sparked an exodus of half a million people. Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets some of them as they cross the border to Mauritania.