Refugees

They know their lives are at risk, yet each year thousands of people from Africa, the Middle East and beyond — war refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants — leave their homes and try to reach the promised land of…

[media-credit name=”Photo: Yusuf Beyazit” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit][media-credit name=”Photo: Yusuf Beyazit, 1st antiracist bathing and playing day at Oranienplatz Berlin” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit][media-credit name=”Photo: Yusuf Beyazit, 1st anti-racist bathing and playin day at Oranienplatz Berlin” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit][media-credit name=”Photo: Yusuf Beyazit, Refugee Tribunal against…

Over a year ago, refugees in Germany started organizing themselves in order to protest in a publicly visible form against the human rights violating institutional practices like the forced isolation through the prohibition to leave the district of your asylum-seekers…

The Indian national capital city of New Delhi, which gives shelter to over 8,000 registered Burmese refugees, half of them women and children, remains unsafe for the asylum seekers. A recent report titled ‘Doke Kha Bon’ from the Burma Centre…

The United Nations is warning spiraling crises in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria are testing the limits of the global humanitarian system. U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said more than one-in-six Central Africans are now internally displaced…

14 January 2013 – The total number of Syrians seeking refuge in camps in Turkey from the ever-worsening violence of their country’s civil war has risen to over 153,300 persons, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. “This is about…