The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) recently released their “Desperate Journeys” report which looks at the treacherous journeys that migrants take to reach Europe via the Mediterranean. Despite the decrease in arrivals over the past few years via the Central Mediterranean Route, sea arrivals continue to rise in Spain and Greece. Between January and June this year,...
More than 15,500 asylum seekers have received temporary residency cards, in an effort to register asylum-seekers in mainland Greece. An Afghan family talks with UNHCR staff while waiting to collect their newly issued ID’s by the Greek Asylum Service. © UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis Some 49,000 people currently lack access to...
At least 1,000 migrants are now believed to have died in a series of shipwrecks that took place off Libya in the last week of May, making it the deadliest week for a year and one of the worst on record. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7ggx-wtIwoE The tally was revised upward by the International...
The end of ‘emergency rule’ and limited returns by displaced Rohingyas are positive developments in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State – but the core issues remain unaddressed [caption id="attachment_5579" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A woman and two young children walk on the outskirts of Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP...