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Ukraine: For the sake of humanity stop this war, urges UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi
We spoke to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who is at a refugee transit camp on the Polish border.
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Ukraine: Europe faces ‘fastest-growing refugee crisis since WW2’
We are in the border town of Uzhhorod, where we spoke again to a 12-year-old girl who fled her home in Kharkiv who is desperate to come to Britain, but can’t under current government rules.
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On the road with the refugees fleeing violence in Ukraine
The number of people who have now fled Ukraine has passed 800,000 according to the United Nations.
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Home Office expands scheme for Ukraine refugees
With the UN estimating up to four million people are set to flee the violence in Ukraine, pressure has been mounting on the UK government to adopt a more generous refugee policy.
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Refugee crisis as 500,000 flee Ukraine after Russia invasion
More than 500,000 people have already fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations – their long journeys made even more traumatic by the freezing temperatures.
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Russia Ukraine conflict: At least 368,000 refugees have already left Ukraine
First thing this morning the United Nations said that at least 368,000 refugees had already left Ukraine, a number which has been rising by the hour.
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Syrian refugees struggling to survive in Lebanon
An unprecedented snowstorm has hit large areas of the Middle East, with temperatures plunging lower than they’ve been for 40 years.
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The refugees suing Facebook for $150bn
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have launched a class action against Facebook, accusing them of failing to take action against hate speech which contributed to violence.
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Afghan refugees abandoned by UK says whistleblower
A former diplomat has claimed that many Afghans were abandoned to their fate at the hands of the Taliban during a “chaotic” and “dysfunctional” evacuation.
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FactCheck: Javid’s misleading claim about UK’s refugee policy
The UK is far from the most generous country overall.
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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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At least six shot dead by guards at migrant detention centre in Libya, say UN officials
At least six people have been shot dead by guards at a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, according to United Nations officials, after yesterday’s mass breakout by hundreds of people.
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‘We don’t close our doors to anybody’, says UNHCR’s Chief of Mission in Libya
We spoke to Jean-Paul Cavalieri, who is the Chief of Mission in Libya for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Libya: Thousands of migrants rounded up and taken to ‘inhumane’ detention centres
The Libyan authorities have rounded up thousands of refugees and migrants over the last week, holding them in detention centres where conditions are described as “inhumane”.
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Ballots counted to determine Angela Merkel’s successor
The Labour Party like everyone else will be watching the results in Germany very closely.