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Illustrator Oliver Jeffers on feeling safe, warm and the effects of conflict on children
Even before the latest conflict in the Middle East erupted, a record 110 million people around the world were already displaced by conflict, persecution or the impacts of climate change – that’s according to the UN’s Refugee Agency.
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Inside Gaza: The babies born into war
UN chief Antonio Gutteres has repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza – and said he was dismayed by reports that two thirds of the casualties were women and children. We can’t report from Gaza ourselves – but Yousef Hammash is a Gazan filmmaker and advocacy officer for the Norwegian Refugee Council. He…
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‘We need years to recover’ says Gaza filmmaker Yousef Hammash
We can’t get into Gaza ourselves, but filmmaker Yousef Hammash, who also works for the Norwegian Refugee Council, has been sending us moving reports about the situation there.
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Inside the occupied West Bank as violence soars
While the eyes of the world are on what’s happening in Gaza, violence has been flaring in the occupied West Bank.
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Inside Gaza: Eyewitness reports ‘nowhere is safe’
We can’t get into Gaza ourselves to report in person.
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‘Chaotic situation’ in Gaza, says eyewitness filmmaker
Earlier we spoke to filmmaker Yousef Hammash, who also works for the Norwegian Refugee Council. He’s been sending us eyewitness reports of the situation in Gaza.
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Debate: how do you stop small boats and people smuggling?
Alexander Downer, a former Australian Foreign Minister, who last year conducted a review into the UK’s Border Force for the government. And Enver Solomon is Chief Executive of the Refugee Council. They debate how to stop illegal migration.
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Asylum seekers becoming homeless after Home Office support withdrawn
New refugees have effectively seven days notice to leave Home Office hotels.
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Detainees at immigration centre subjected to inhumane treatment, says inquiry
The first public inquiry into abuses at an immigration detention centre in the UK found a ‘toxic culture’ – where detainees were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment, ‘explicit racism’ and frequent misuse of force.
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First group of 15 asylum seekers board Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset
The first group of 15 asylum seekers have boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset as part of government plans to save the costs of housing people in hotels.
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Syria: people struggling with trauma, father who lost son in earthquake says
We spoke to Fouad Sayed Issa. He’s a youth activist and founder of the Syrian refugee-led humanitarian group ‘Violet Organization.’
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I came to the UK from Syria with £12 – Imad Al Arnab on fleeing the war and opening his own restaurant
Chef and former refugee Imad Al Arnab joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about fleeing Syria and his journey from losing everything in the war to rebuilding a life in the UK, in this week’s episode of Ways to Change the World.
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Chad: Inside the border town home to thousands of Sudanese fleeing war
Thousands of people have been killed and millions more have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan – since brutal fighting erupted in April between the country’s army and the rebel Rapid Support Forces. Sudan’s health ministry said an air strike on Saturday, which the army denies, killed at least 22 people in Omdurman.…
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Israel Palestine conflict: could there be a third intifada?
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank during a gun battle in the town of Nablus. It comes days after Israel’s wide-scale military operation in the Jenin refugee camp, which left 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead.
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The people drowning as Europe pushes them away
Paraic O’Brien speaks about his time in Tunisia on the frontline of this crisis.