Posts tagged with "refugees"

Erdogan, presidential rival both vow to send Syrians home Turkey

Erdogan, presidential rival both vow to send Syrians home

June 22nd, 2018 President Tayyip Erdogan and his main rival in Sunday's presidential election have both pledged to send millions of Syrian refugees home, responding to growing unease among voters about the number of migrants in Turkey. More than 3.5 million Syrian refugees who fled conflict in their country are living in Turkey and their presence...
Concerns over success of Greek classes for migrant children Education

Concerns over success of Greek classes for migrant children

June 20th, 2018 A programme for migrant and refugee students in state schools needs to be re-evaluated as it appears to be causing a host of problems, lawmakers said on Wednesday. During a session at the House education committee, MPs voiced their concerns over the programme, which aims to teach migrant students the Greek language and help integrate...
Refugees: a call for acceptance, inclusion and solidarity Opinion

Refugees: a call for acceptance, inclusion and solidarity

June 17th, 2018 By Damtew Dessalegne World Refugee Day on June 20 is an annual call to honour the lives, struggles and immeasurable resilience of the millions of uprooted people all over the world. Surely, it takes courage to be a refugee. Courage not to give up hope. Courage to start and build a new future against seemingly overwhelming odds....
Migrant trafficker, children, among six killed in Greek crash Greece

Migrant trafficker, children, among six killed in Greek crash

June 8th, 2018 Six people were killed and two critically injured on Friday when a minivan carrying Iraqi and Syrian migrants crashed into a wall and overturned on a northern Greek motorway, police said. Three children, aged around five, nine and 12, were among the dead, a hospital official said. Police said a person identified as the "trafficker"...
European governments need to do more for internally displaced persons, CoE says Cyprus

European governments need to do more for internally displaced persons, CoE says

May 29th, 2018 By the end of 2017, there were close to four million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe, mostly in Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Council of Europe (CoE) said on Tuesday. While the current patterns of internal displacement in Europe have mainly resulted from conflicts – some of...
Pleas for repairs to refugee estates falling on deaf ears, MPs say Cyprus

Pleas for repairs to refugee estates falling on deaf ears, MPs say

April 24th, 2018 A lack of coordination among government departments plus their indifference has resulted in refugee estates falling into disrepair, reducing the quality of life for those still living on them, lawmakers heard on Tuesday. The estates were built for Greek Cypriots who had to flee the north in 1974. House refugee committee chairwoman...
Erdogan says will ask EU for rest of 3bn euro aid for refugees Turkey

Erdogan says will ask EU for rest of 3bn euro aid for refugees

March 19th, 2018 Turkey will ask the European Union about the remainder of a 3 billion euros fund intended for Syrian refugees during talks in Bulgaria next week, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Turkey has accepted 3.5 million refugees from Syria, and the EU is already spending 3 billion euros to help them as part of a 2016 deal to...
More than 200,000 people fled Syria's Afrin Middle East

More than 200,000 people fled Syria's Afrin

March 19th, 2018 More than 200,000 people who fled a Turkey-led offensive on the Kurdish town of Afrin are without shelter or access to food and water in nearby areas, a Syrian Kurdish official from Afrin told Reuters on Monday. "The people with cars are sleeping in the cars, the people without are sleeping under the trees with their children," Hevi...
Thousands of Syrians flee their homes as battles rage (Updated) Middle East

Thousands of Syrians flee their homes as battles rage (Updated)

March 17th, 2018 Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns on Saturday to escape battles in the north and south of Syria, where two different offensives have prompted an exodus in recent days. A new wave of at least 10,000 people fled a rebel pocket to army lines in eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus in the southwest. Rescuers and a...
Migrants march in Florence after Italian kills street vendor Europe

Migrants march in Florence after Italian kills street vendor

March 6th, 2018 African immigrants marched through the streets of central Florence late on Monday chanting "no more racism" after an Italian man shot dead a Senegalese street vendor earlier in the day. Police said Roberto Pirrone had fired six pistol shots at close range, killing Idy Dienec as he sold leather bags, umbrellas and trinkets on a bridge...
News podcast: how Cyprus mismanages its waste strategies Cyprus

News podcast: how Cyprus mismanages its waste strategies

February 9th, 2018 The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: Young refugees from Africa share their hopes and experiences in a documentary; The problem of plastic...
Turkish border guards shoot at fleeing Syrians, say observers Middle East

Turkish border guards shoot at fleeing Syrians, say observers

February 3rd, 2018 TURKISH guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The spokesman for Turkey’s president said it was highly unlikely that Turkish soldiers would shoot at Syrian war refugees but the government would look...
German SPD leader ‘dampens hopes for quick deal’ (Update) Europe

German SPD leader ‘dampens hopes for quick deal’ (Update)

January 29th, 2018 The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) played down hopes on Monday for swift progress in coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, an SPD source said, amid continued disagreement over several issues including refugees. Four months after both Merkel's party and the SPD performed worse than expected in a...
Learning refuge helping refugees in Paphos Cyprus

Learning refuge helping refugees in Paphos

January 7th, 2018 By Bejay Browne A Paphos centre set up and run by volunteers is making a huge difference to the lives of refugee families in Cyprus, by teaching them language skills and providing assistance wherever possible. The Learning Refuge in central Paphos was initiated by Caritas and aims to improve the lives of refugees. Head of...
Suffering and loss should be beyond comparison Opinion

Suffering and loss should be beyond comparison

January 7th, 2018 By Gavin Jones How many times have we heard of someone having a hard time or a group of people being treated abominably? I would hazard a guess that the number runs into the hundreds, if not thousands. And by what yardstick do we measure the worthiness of each and every case? Is someone suffering from cancer more deserving of our...
Refugee awareness campaign to promote closer relations Cyprus

Refugee awareness campaign to promote closer relations

January 3rd, 2018 An awareness campaign publicising the lives of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in Cyprus and promoting closer relations with them will be run in 2018 for the second year, it was announced on Wednesday. "The purpose of the ‘Aware’ campaign is to raise awareness of the communities of refugees and immigrants who are often...
EU leaders clash over refugees Europe

EU leaders clash over refugees

December 15th, 2017 Two years after the Mediterranean migrant crisis blew a hole in the European Union, a tentative effort to patch up differences over what to do with refugees underlined continuing rifts among the bloc's leaders. A free-wheeling discussion over a Brussels summit dinner that began on Thursday night and spilled into the wee hours of...
Refugees seeking loans left in the lurch Cyprus

Refugees seeking loans left in the lurch

November 7th, 2017 Some two-and-a-half thousand refugees eligible for interest-rate subsidies on loans from the Central Agency for Equal Distribution of Burdens (Caedb) have been left in the lurch because they cannot obtain loan approval from the banks in the first place, the House refugees committee heard on Tuesday. A public-law entity established in...
Calls increase for refugee support fund Cyprus

Calls increase for refugee support fund

November 4th, 2017 The Famagusta Chamber of Commerce and Industry called on Friday for the creation of a fund to support refugees and compensate them for their loss of property in the north. The call comes after discussion kicked off last week in parliament on the creation of a fund to compensate depositors and investors who lost money in the 2013...
Refugees arrive in Kato Pyrgos (Updated) Cyprus

Refugees arrive in Kato Pyrgos (Updated)

November 3rd, 2017 A boat full of refugees - including a two-day-old infant and 174 men, women and children - arrived in Kato Pyrgos from Antalya, Turkey, at lunchtime on Friday. The vessel was spotted at 12.30pm some 10 nautical miles off Pyrgos and one hour later was towed to Kato Pyrgos. 35 of the arrivals are women, 59 minors, one of them the...
At least three dead, scores rescued off Greek islands as arrivals rise (Updated) Greece

At least three dead, scores rescued off Greek islands as arrivals rise (Updated)

November 3rd, 2017 Three people drowned, at least six were missing and scores of others were rescued in three separate incidents of migrants trying to reach Greece across the Aegean Sea early Friday. Greek authorities recovered the body of a woman and searched for more people missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants sank off Kalymnos island, close...
Seven Rohingya drown as boat capsizes off Bangladesh (Update) Asia

Seven Rohingya drown as boat capsizes off Bangladesh (Update)

October 31st, 2017 Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, police said. Residents of the coastal strip south of the Bangladesh port of Cox's Bazar fished 37 survivors out of the water and...
Tensions rise as Australia dismantles detention centre (Update) Oceania

Tensions rise as Australia dismantles detention centre (Update)

October 31st, 2017 Australian private security on Tuesday vacated an asylum seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ahead of its planned closure, detainees said, leaving about 600 refugees and asylum seekers barricaded inside and refusing to move. Detainees are defying attempts by Australia and PNG to close the controversial Manus Island...
Cyprus sees rise in asylum applications Cyprus

Cyprus sees rise in asylum applications

October 19th, 2017 While asylum applications dropped by 54 per cent in the EU in the past year, Cyprus saw a rise of 43 per cent, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said. “It is a trend that concerns us and we will monitor it,” he said. Despite its size, the island has approved 57 per cent of the applications, a considerably higher rate than...
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