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‘We’re pursuing an extremely dangerous approach to refugees’, says policy manager
We spoke to Dr Cristina Juverdeanu, from the University of Leeds, and Zoe Gardner, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
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Thousands of Afghan refugees already stuck in UK asylum system
While the government has pledged to welcome up to 20,000 Afghans who’ve fled the Taliban over the next five years, some 3,000 people from Afghanistan have been stuck in the UK’s asylum system for years.
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‘Lack of planning’ to house Afghan refugees says Labour councillor
We spoke to Peymana Assad, a Labour councillor for the London borough of Harrow, who was evacuated from Kabul herself by the RAF, caught up in the chaos while visiting.
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Refugees will ‘find their way’ despite Turkey’s efforts to close border say Chatham House
We were joined by Fadi Hakura – who runs the Turkey Project at the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House.
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Denmark offers Syrian refugees money to return home or be put in a deportation centre
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
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Calls for Bangladesh to halt relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Human rights groups have called on Bangladesh to halt what they claim is the forced relocation of Rohingya refugees to a remote, cyclone prone island
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‘What we need is a clear rethink of UK migration policy which puts people above politics’ – Help Refugees chief exec Josie Naughton
Josie Naughton is the chief executive of Help Refugees.
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Football helping refugees find a home in Britain
They arrived in the UK as children – alone and with no one to care for them – leaving their family and friends behind in search of safety.
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‘People in the tents say, ‘we are alone here and no one hears us’’ – Fouad Sayed Issa, Founder of organisation working with refugees in Idlib
Earlier Cathy spoke to Fouad Sayed Issa, founder of Violet – an organisation which works with refugees in Idlib.
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Refugees gather at Turkey-Syria border
As fighting intensifies yet again in north west Syria – bringing Turkish and Russian forces a step closer towards direct conflict – more than a million refugees are now massing on the Turkish border.
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Turkey opens borders for refugees and migrants to travel to Europe
Hundreds of refugees and migrants are gathering on Turkey’s border with Greece after Turkey said it would no longer prevent them from crossing towards Europe.
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The Welsh villagers who could become Britain’s first climate refugees
Nowhere in Britain is facing the consequences of global warming quite like Fairbourne, a village on the coast of North West Wales.
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Refugees living on British military base in Cyprus allowed to settle in UK
Their case went all the way to the highest court in the land before the Home Office finally relented, insisting this was an exceptional one-off decision.
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Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs on refugees: ‘Nobody’s been caged, nobody’s been starved’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become something of a poster-boy for Europe’s far right. He’s portrayed himself as the defender of a white, Christian Hungary at risk from refugees and migrants. His government has rewritten the constitution, tightened control over the media and remodelled the justice system. Now in his fourth term in office, he’s taken…
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Exclusive: Refugees marooned for 20 years can finally settle in UK
Five refugee families, marooned on a British military base in Cyprus for the past 20 years, will finally been allowed to resettle in the UK, Channel 4 News has learned.