Posts tagged with "refugees"

Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre Cyprus

Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre

November 6th, 20183163 Residents of Zygi and nearby villages obstructed workers from the department of public works from conducting a record of the buildings located in an abandoned military camp in the area on Tuesday which is set to host a centre for unaccompanied children of refugees arriving in Cyprus. The residents have been up in arms against the...
Rescued Syrians to seek asylum Cyprus

Rescued Syrians to seek asylum

October 30th, 20182311 A group of 17 Syrian refugees who had been rescued off the Cape Greco coast on Monday afternoon intend to apply for political asylum, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. Their boat had been spotted at around noon on Monday, at a distance of some 50 nautical miles off Cape Greco in Ayia Napa, police said. At around 5pm, the...
Group of Syrians rescued off Cape Greco Cyprus

Group of Syrians rescued off Cape Greco

October 29th, 20182800 A group of 17 Syrian refugees were transferred on Monday night to the Larnaca police station, after being rescued by marine police earlier in the day off the Cape Greco coast. The boat was spotted at around noon on Monday, at a distance of some 50 nautical miles off Cape Greco in Ayia Napa, police said. At around 5pm, the boat was...
Trafficking chief believes child marriages going on under the radar Cyprus

Trafficking chief believes child marriages going on under the radar

October 23rd, 20182523 By Evie Andreou Among the cases the police anti-trafficking unit have had to deal with in the past were underage brides sent from Syria to Cyprus on arranged marriage contracts, the head of the unit, Rita Superman, said on Tuesday. The migration crisis, she said, creates vulnerable groups that fall prey to human traffickers, while...
A new meeting place for refugees and asylum seekers Cyprus

A new meeting place for refugees and asylum seekers

October 20th, 20182858 The Association of Recognised Refugees announced on Friday it had acquired its own space in Nicosia which will operate as a meeting point and a place where refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants can meet each other and express solidarity. The mission of the New Genesis Centre is to create a community among refugees, asylum seekers...
New group of 29 Syrian refugees escorted to shore Cyprus

New group of 29 Syrian refugees escorted to shore

October 19th, 20182955 A group of 29 refugees from Syria spotted off Cape Greco were escorted by the marine police to the Ayios Nicolaos harbour in Protaras on Friday afternoon. The inflatable boat was traced by marine police radar at around 12.50 pm sailing southeast of Cape Greco in Protaras. A vessel from marine police went in the area and escorted...
UNHCR Cyprus to screen Weiwei film on refugees Cyprus

UNHCR Cyprus to screen Weiwei film on refugees

October 17th, 20181397 The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Cyprus has arranged for the screening of ‘Human Flow’ a documentary by renowned artist Ai Weiwei, on refugees. Human Flow has been screened in select theatres around the world, and UNHCR’s Office in Cyprus brings the film to Cypriot audiences for its premiere...
UK students to visit Cyprus to explore new ways of helping refugees Company News

UK students to visit Cyprus to explore new ways of helping refugees

October 17th, 20181015 Students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) in the United Kingdom are travelling to Cyprus to explore new ways of helping refugees and migrants. DMU has been asked by the United Nations to take the lead in engaging the higher education sector worldwide to be part of the #JoinTogether campaign and will visit a partner...
Cyprus tops list of first-time asylum applicants per capita Cyprus

Cyprus tops list of first-time asylum applicants per capita

September 26th, 20181986 The highest number of first-time asylum applicants relative to the population across the EU in the second quarter of the year has been registered in Cyprus, with 1,656 per million, Eurostat figures showed on Wednesday. In terms of sheer numbers most were registered in Germany, France and Greece. According to the data, compared with...
Anastasiades accused of ‘wrong-speak’ by using term ‘illegal immigrants’ Cyprus

Anastasiades accused of ‘wrong-speak’ by using term ‘illegal immigrants’

September 24th, 20183076 By Lizzy Ioannidou Interior minister Constantinos Petrides has come to the defence of President Nicos Anastasiades who was recently accused of racist impropriety for the use of the term ‘illegal immigrants’. Petrides said the same vocabulary is used by both the presidents of the European Commission and the European...
EU promises to help Cyprus deal with influx of refugees Cyprus

EU promises to help Cyprus deal with influx of refugees

September 18th, 20182904 The EU will send a team of experts to Cyprus to discuss with the authorities ways to prevent further pressure on the island from any future inflow of refugees, mainly from war-torn neighbouring Syria, a senior Commission official said on Tuesday. European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos...
As Idlib offensive looms, Syrians flee to border villages World

As Idlib offensive looms, Syrians flee to border villages

September 11th, 20181281 Syrians escaping violence in Idlib have arrived in villages near the Turkish border in droves, fearing Damascus will launch a full-blown assault on the rebel stronghold. More than 30,000 people have fled their homes in northwest Syria since the army and allied forces resumed bombardment last week, the U.N. humanitarian affairs office...
New swift check on age of refugees claiming to be minors Cyprus

New swift check on age of refugees claiming to be minors

September 11th, 20182551 A new, speedy procedure will be introduced by the government for verifying the age of people claiming to be unaccompanied minors as many who sought refuge in Cyprus last year under that status were found to be adults, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Following a meeting presided by Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides with...
Unhcr says migrant inflow manageable but readiness plan needed Cyprus

Unhcr says migrant inflow manageable but readiness plan needed

September 7th, 20181751 By George Psyllides THE UN high commission for refugees (Unhcr) said Thursday the situation in Cyprus concerning migrant inflows is manageable at present, despite the rise in numbers, but a broader readiness plan must be drafted in case of mass arrivals. The spokeswoman of Unhcr’s Cyprus office said the organisation was on...
UNRWA chief defends refugee criteria for millions of Palestinians Middle East

UNRWA chief defends refugee criteria for millions of Palestinians

September 3rd, 20181135 Millions of Palestinian refugees "cannot simply be wished away", the head of a UN support agency said on Monday, hitting back at a US aid cutoff and allegations its work only perpetuates their plight. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) provides services to about 5 million Palestinian refugees across Jordan, Lebanon,...
Situation ‘at boiling point’ at refugee centre on Greek island Greece

Situation ‘at boiling point’ at refugee centre on Greek island

August 31st, 20181358 The United Nations refugee agency urged Greece on Friday to speed up transfers of eligible asylum-seekers from Aegean islands to the mainland, saying conditions at an overcrowded Lesbos reception centre were "reaching boiling point". Lesbos, not far from Turkey in the northeastern Aegean Sea, was the preferred entry point into the...
Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece - lawyer Greece

Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece - lawyer

August 31st, 20181475 Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling, her lawyer said on Friday. Greek police said on Tuesday they had arrested two members of an aid organisation on the island of Lesbos and were investigating a total...
‘No going back’: refugees remember 1974 flight Cyprus

‘No going back’: refugees remember 1974 flight

August 12th, 20184332 By Emilia Christofi A few clothes, sheets and a blanket for the parents, kids and grandparents were all that the suitcase could hold. Meanwhile Katia put her school PE kit in a plastic bag. The suitcase, the plastic bag and the keys were all the family took with them as they left the village of Palekithro in Nicosia district on August...
Refugees seek European justice after losing compensation claim Cyprus

Refugees seek European justice after losing compensation claim

July 5th, 20183558 A refugee couple who sued the state for compensation but lost, vowed on Wednesday to take their case all the way to the European Court of Human Rights. Thomas and Eleni Kaoullas, refugees from Famagusta, had filed an action before a district court seeking indemnities for loss of income due to the 1974 invasion and subsequent, ongoing...
Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon begin returning to Syria Middle East

Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon begin returning to Syria

June 28th, 20181295 Nearly 400 refugees started leaving the Lebanese border town of Arsal to cross into Syria on Thursday, a rare case of a return which Lebanon's government wants to encourage. People gathered in minivans and tractors in the morning, loading them with mattresses, water tanks and furniture. Lebanese security personnel recorded the names...
Erdogan, presidential rival both vow to send Syrians home Turkey

Erdogan, presidential rival both vow to send Syrians home

June 22nd, 20181276 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, 20181571 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, 20182060 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....
Suspected people smuggler remanded, refugees taken to Kokkinotrimithia (Updated) Cyprus

Suspected people smuggler remanded, refugees taken to Kokkinotrimithia (Updated)

June 13th, 20186619   A 49-year-old man who is believed to be the person who brought 61 Syrians to Cyprus in an unsafe and overloaded boat on Wednesday evening was remanded for eight days on Thursday. The man jumped from the boat into the sea when police approached the vessel which was floating three nautical miles from Kato Pyrgos and was...
Migrant trafficker, children, among six killed in Greek crash Greece

Migrant trafficker, children, among six killed in Greek crash

June 8th, 20181032 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"...
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