The rate at which people are fleeing war and persecution has soared from 6 per minute in 2005 to 24 per minute in 2015, according to a new report released today by the UN Refugee Agency. The picture given by the UN agency appears dire and worsening. Wars...
A boat with about 700 people has overturned about 75 nautical miles south of Crete. The Hellenic Coastguard said it rescued 342 migrants so far. Four bodies were recovered from the site, which is in international waters. Sources in Egypt, say, the boat is likely a...
The Libya Red Crescent says it recovered 117 bodies from beaches of the coastal town of Zuwara on Thursday in an operation that started early in the morning and ended at 10:30pm. The latest tally was confirmed by the LRC in the morning. They bodies are believed to be migrants...
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...
One in every ten respondents in a global survey said they would welcome refugees in their homes, while 80% overall said they would want their country to provide shelter. [caption id="attachment_5786" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Photo: Moas.eu/ Jason Florio[/caption] Respondents in China, Germany and the UK emerged as overall...
A group of 41 migrants who were rescued from a drifting vessel off Greece have reported that as many as 500 people may have died when their vessel sunk at an unconfirmed location between Libya and Greece. [caption id="attachment_5746" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Stock photo of migrant boat off Libya...
Global search and rescue charity MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) will begin a new mission in South East Asia on March 3 in the Andaman Sea. [caption id="attachment_5489" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A fishing vessel sits on a beach in Teknaf, Bangladesh, from where thousands of migrants take...
[caption id="attachment_5471" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] An empty rubber dinghy left floating after the 104 migrants and refugees had been rescued by the private NGO, Migrant Offshore Aid Station ship The Phoenix about 30 miles from the Libyan shore from where they had set out from 12...